No Country For Old Men
Posted on February 2, 2008 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
Saw it this evening. Very impressive stuff. I feel like a fraud when I try to write film reviews, so I’ll just recommend it on the basis that I liked it.
“The Golden Compass”
Posted on November 17, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Religion | 3 Comments
“The Golden Compass” is what Northern Lights was retitled for its release in America. It’s a smashing book, and so I had high hopes when I read that a film was in production. However, it seems that the people at New Line Cinema have opted to bowdlerize Philip Pullman’s story by stripping away all the [...]
Battle Plan; Recruits Needed
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Film | 2 Comments
The plan for tomorrow night’s campaign is simple: 1. See Mr Hands: The Movie (otherwise known as Zoo) in the Kino cinema at 9. 2. Go drinking (as in hardcore drinking). 3. Get drunk (as in China drunk). 4. … whatever. So who’s with me? Update: Forget it, I’m way too tired, and it seems [...]
Mr. Hands for Cork Film Festival
Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Internets | 3 Comments
Mr. Hands in the internet handle of a guy named Kenneth Pinyan, who died in 2005 in Washington state after being filmed (NSFW [or anywhere else for that matter]) having sex with a horse. It now transpires that some fellow called Robinson Devor has taken it upon himself to document this unusual death in his [...]
Halo 3 Vs. Spider Man 3
Posted on September 27, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Video Games | 2 Comments
As mentioned in the last post, there was a concerted effort on Microsoft’s part to bring in more money on Halo 3′s release date than Spider Man 3 managed on its entire opening weekend ($151 million dollars, a box office record). Obviously there’s little point comparing the two different releases; one is possibly the greatest [...]
The Big Lebowski Abridged
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Funny | 3 Comments
A friend from my Chinese adventure sent me a link to this. It might not be funny if you haven’t seen the movie. Thanks Daniel.
Transformers
Posted on August 11, 2007 - Filed Under Film | 5 Comments
Seldom have I seen a film so bad and yet so brimming with awesome. I was an avid Transformers fan as a kid, so when I heard that Michael Bay was directing a Transformers film I was annoyed, given the director’s track record for making awful movies (which somehow manage do well at the box [...]
Stephen Colbert Pays Tribute to Ingmar Bergman
Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Funny | Leave a Comment
The Big Lebowski
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Funny | 5 Comments
None of the guys I went to China with have seen it apparently.
“This is CAKE TOWN!11″
Posted on May 27, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Funny | 2 Comments
I first saw this after I’d had a few beers, and watching it now I still find it funny, so I thought it was worth blogging.
Halp!11 An Ermine!1
Posted on May 1, 2007 - Filed Under Film | 1 Comment
This is for anyone that read Philip Pullman’s excellent His Dark Materials trilogy. There’s a film in the works (oddly entitled ‘The Golden Compass’), and so a website is already set up in preparation for its launch. On the site you can take a brief test to determine what dæmon is most suited to you. [...]
300
Posted on March 21, 2007 - Filed Under Film | 2 Comments
Everyone has probably seen this trailer already, but I couldn’t help posting about it. It looks fantastic, and it has a Nine Inch Nails song in there too. I can’t wait to see the film, even if it is just one big, gratuitously violent battle scene.
The Hogfather on Sky One
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I watched the first half last night when I arrived home merry at 2 a.m. (having recorded it on Sky Plus), and I watched the second half this evening. For some reason the second half didn’t seem nearly as amusing as the first… All things considered, it was a decent enough attempt at transposing the [...]
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Posted on October 17, 2006 - Filed Under Film, Funny | 2 Comments
I hadn’t seen this until quite recently, which is odd considering I’m a big fan of the series (the jury’s still out on season X however). The film is excellent. It’s essentially a animated musical with lots of swearing, but such a description doesn’t even come close to doing this movie justice. The songs are [...]
No, No, No!
Posted on October 13, 2006 - Filed Under Film | 2 Comments
I’ve just read on wikipedia that there is an American version of Battle Royale in the pipeline. Even if it doesn’t completely suck (which it undoubtedly will), there is still no good reason to make another version, unless you’re a talentless film producer hoping to rip off someone else’s fine work by exploiting the fact [...]
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