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Sunrise City / Finally 64 Bits

    A quick post for a quick render – Sunrise City – my first proper test render with my new 64 Bit PC built entirely with it.  My last PC was supposed to be 64 Bit but there was a complication in the manufacturing (otherwise known as Dell used some 32 Bit parts thus […]

X-Men First Class

X-Men First Class wasn’t a film I had particularly high expectations of.  Super hero films aren’t my first choice for a night out and the X-Men haven’t really done a lot for me in the past.  On top of all that I was struggling to imagine James McAvoy as a young Patrick Stewart. So I […]

View from Hardwick Hall

Hardwick Hall Colonnade

The Colonnade (or Loggia) at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

Hardwick Hall

Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War

There were some nice things about the latest Doctor Who episode: A Good Man Goes to War.  It started very well with the Cybermen and the collection of various allies from across Time and Space.  There was the nice idea that Doctor becoming word for warrior in many cultures that have encountered him.   There was […]

Nighttime Hailstorm

A photograph of the overnight torrential downpour and hailstorm with thunder and lightning from the bank holiday weekend just gone. You can see a few of the hailstones bouncing off the top of the street light as bright dashes flying away from it.

Blitz Film Review

Blitz is a rare type of British film – the cop film.  They just don’t come along too often these days – our cops spend their time policing TV screens in all their variegated variety – to the point where Hot Fuzz was a pastiche of how a US cop film set in a small […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides London Set Photograph

In September 2010 on a trip to London I stumbled into the sets being built for the London sequences of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. It’s funny how your memory can play tricks on you – I thought I had quite a few pictures of […]

Doctor Who: The Rebel Flesh

The latest Dr Who episode The Rebel Flesh was a nicely done, solid story with nothing to complain about.  That’s a relief after the time I’ve spent on reviews for The Doctor’s Wife or Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.  The Gangers are nicely realised I may be over reading one comment by the […]