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The Guard Film Review
Thursday, August 25th, 2011The Guards is a film that isn’t bad but doesn’t really manage to be more than a pleasant diversion while it was probably hoping to be a cult classic. The characters, setting and story have the potential to be interesting: an unorthodox, slightly corrupt Irish policeman, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) in […]
impworks Now with Added Social Media Buttons
Friday, August 19th, 2011I’ve had a little fiddle round with this site to add Google +1 button, Tweet Button and Facebook like. Not because I exepect anyone to use them but so I can use all three in anger. The formatting needs a bit of work still but all three seem to be working.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Movie Review
Thursday, August 18th, 2011The Planet of the Apes franchise isn’t one of my personal science fiction classics – I always found the actors in ape costumes distracted me. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to see this addition to the series like X-Men First Class though this proved to be well worth the price of admission. However I’m […]
Super 8 Film Review
Monday, August 8th, 2011Super 8 is classic Spielberg late 70s / early 80s teenagers have an encounter / coming of age film fun made with the sort of effects that are very much 21st century state of the art. Think Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or The Goonies. I’m going to keep this short because […]
Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011
Thursday, August 4th, 2011I really enjoyed visiting the Design Museum, London, last year so I was pleased I managed to get down to London to see the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 a few weekends ago. I’ve picked out a few of my favourite entries in the gallery. I didn’t get a picture of Margaret Howell […]
Captain America: The First Avenger Movie Review
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011Captain America: The First Avenger tonight. Really enjoyed it. I’m starting to think that (after X-Men First Class and The Watchmen) I prefer my super hero movies with period settings rather than modern day. Hugo Weaving on top bad guy form. Richard Armatage’s appearance fun if somewhat truncated. Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, […]
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Last weekend I took myself to London to throw myself round a series of exhibitions. One of the highlights was going to see the 2011 Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens by Peter Zumthor. I’d only seen shots of the outside and have to admit I was a bit concerned it was going […]
Don’t Make the Little Guy Angry…
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011…You’ll not like him when he’s angry. My avatar was mistaken for a goblin’s mugshot and he really isn’t happy about it. First he’s never been in trouble with the law. So they don’t have his DNA, clawprints or photograph on file. Secondly he’s not a goblin: Goblins don’t have tails or wings – at […]
Paul Trevor – Like you’ve Never Been Away
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011In a smaller gallery next to the Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Paul Trevor of inner city Liverpool taken in 1975. The exhibition features a sequence of stunning images that reflect both the poverty and material decay that afflicted inner city life in the 1970s. Most […]
Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911
Thursday, July 7th, 2011The Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery celebrates the centenary of the 1911 exhibition of Post-Impressionist works and local avant-garde artists at the Bluecoat (The Sandon Studios Society exhibition of Modern Art including work by the Post-Impressionists). The breadth of styles is breath-taking – there are works by van Gogh, Gauguin […]