Please do not adjust your vision. We are aware of the problems and will sort it out after our teabreak. So that’s sometime tomorrow.
Or maybe the day after.
Ta.
The Management
“Normal” service has been resumed.* Carry on as you were.
*(For the more technically inclined who want to know what happened, the thingymajig [...]
Archive > May 2006
Technical Difficulties
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Korea, 2002)
Dir: Park Chan-Wook
Scr: Park Chan-Wook, Lee Jae-Sun, Lee Yong-Jung, Lee Mu-Yeong
Str: Song Kang-Ho, Shin Ha-Kyun, Bae Dun-Na
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance is a bleak, morbid, depressing, violent, morally ambiguous and nihilistic piece of work.
I loved it.
A quick recap: Oldboy, Park Chan-Wook’s Grand Prix winning film (as in Cannes film festival and not Formula One, duh!), was [...]
High Sea Adventure
I’m reading a book called Shadow Divers which is a tale of bravery, courage, death, ambition, feuds, betrayal, discovery and adventure.
And it’s all true.
Two men, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, have inspirational lives and I can hardly put the book down. I love diving but compared to these two, I might as well be [...]
Let us pray!
Praise be! Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest. Hard Rock Hallelujah!
(I don’t want to say I told you so but I did tell you so!)
Film miscellanea
Merk’s a very nice chap although I haven’t seen him since I got lost around the back of Goodge Street a couple of years ago. He asked about films and then turned his comments off so I’m going to post it here instead.
Favourite Horror: The Exorcist
Fave Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fave ’shit [...]
More human than human
Let’s see. How can I express my thoughts about this subject in such a way that it succinctly and exactly encapsulates my thoughts? I sometimes feel that at times like this, my gut reaction and first thoughts are probably the most astute and although it’s a phrase repeatedly found here and often uttered [...]
Over by christmas
Well, they said it about World War I and again about World War II. But this Invasion will definitely be over by Christmas. Variety report that ABC has not renewed Invasion for a second series.
I can’t say that I’m at all surprised. The concept is not bad but it just [...]
Conspiracy Theory
The BBC has an article about why Daniel Brown’s best selling novel is so “important”. It doesn’t tell us anything we haven’t already heard a thousand times about Mr Da V .and his cryptograms but I’m once again amused by the “Have Your Say” comments, in particular this:
The da vinci code is one of [...]
Creature Feature
Random personal fact #1073: I loathe the Eurovision Song Contest. With an absolute passion. It is the one night of the year when you can absolutely guarantee that I’ll be out. It doesn’t matter where, just as long as I’m nowhere in the vicinity of a television.
This year might be an exception and [...]
