I don’t seem to have any time for Hallowe’en these days. By which I mean that I think it’s far too commercial and that if any little brats come knocking on my door then I’m more likely to want to eat their livers, on toast with a nice pint of Hobgoblin and a bowl [...]
Archive > October 2007
Breathless
The other day, driving home from work, I had an idea. An invention idea. The sort of idea you’d go on public television with and propose it to a bunch of rich business types who will then offer to lend you money in return for a share of the profits or something.
The idea [...]
On the one hand
People are already starting to hear if they’ve made the interview shortlist for Metlab. I haven’t. I’m trying to be stoic about it but I know I’m going to feel disappointed for all of, I don’t know, a bit.
On the other hand
I had a call this morning about a new contract [...]
The Vanishing (Holland, 1988)
There are two versions of this film which both directed by the same person; George Sluizer. The first is subtitled and is a Dutch/French production that I watched last night. The second is a US remake starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock. The first is raved about as [...]
Marathon Training
I’ve finally decided not to do the marathon that I’d planned to do.
I feel a bit defeatist about it but the decision is made on the fact that I’m not doing the miles I need to. Last week I should have run about 40 miles in total. I actually managed 5 and struggled [...]
Ghost Rider (USA, 2007)
This was a fucking waste of time.
I’m all for superhero films and I don’t necessarily need them to be believable or take themselves too seriously. I like popcorn movies and I don’t always need substance. All I want, most of the time, is to be entertained. This was just tedious [...]
Frankenstein
My dilemma about what to watch last night was resolved about half way through this rather dull and tedious affair that showed on ITV last night. In fact, I’m not sure I can be arsed to write about it. I wasn’t impressed by this modern retelling of the Mary Shelley’s classic. It [...]
Session 9 (USA, 2001)
Session 9 is a low budget supernatural thriller about a group of asbestos removal engineers who get a contract to clear out an old insane asylum. The story was written with an actual place in mind, the Danvers State Insane Asylum and it was shot entirely on location here. As such, the building [...]
The Most Important Question
that you’re going to get asked this week is this:
Who would win in a fight: a minotaur armed with a trident or a centaur with a crossbow?
Hint: if you answered centaur, you are quite clearly so very, very wrong.
TV Nation
After months and months (about, let’s see, 7 to be precise) of not having any type of television reception whatsoever, we finally decided that we’d get a new aerial installed. Yesterday morning the helpful chappie turned up and a short while later there was television. And it was good.
Well, actually, no it wasn’t. [...]
