Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
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 […]
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 […]
X-Men First Class
Friday, June 24th, 2011X-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 […]
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War
Sunday, June 5th, 2011There 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 […]
Blitz Film Review
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Blitz 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 […]
Doctor Who: The Rebel Flesh
Saturday, May 21st, 2011The 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 […]