Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
The Translated Man
Sunday, April 5th, 2009Finished reading The Translated Man by Chris Braak yesterday. Since I’m being regularly e-mailed by a web site who’ve taken to including my posts tagged reviews are included in their review listings where the reviews are in turn reviewed I’m going to do a bit of a Corbett first. While I may tag this as […]
The International
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Just back from seeing The International, a twisty euro thriller that jumps between Europe and New York weaving the tail of a bank which is tangled up in some very shady deals. Clive Owen gives a strong performance and is ably supported by an excellent cast. The pacing is deliberately uneven which avoids the danger […]
This Way Up
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Just saw a short (9 min) animation on BBC1 “This Way Up”. Well worth a look.
Hustle – Series 5 Episode 1
Thursday, January 8th, 2009So Hustle is back – much improved for the return of Adrian Lester and hopefully not troubled by the departure of Marc Warren and Jaime Murray. While I enjoy Hustle’s supperficial self importance, its modern Robin Hood approach to its victims and the bravado with which it breaks the fourth wall I hope tonights example […]
Transporter 3
Friday, December 12th, 2008Went to see Transporter 3 at the Liverpool One Odeon last night. It delivers exactly what it says on the packet – a straight forward action film. Of the three films I’d say its plot it probably the most coherent (well as coherent as any of them). I’d like to have seen more of François […]
The Good, The Bad and the Upside Down?
Saturday, December 6th, 2008No not a new Peter Jackson and Russell Crowe remake of the Sergio Leone classic just a little accident with the film at the Philharmonic tonight. Then I did some pretty awful things when I was a projectionist so I’ll not hold it against them.
Oh Cheer Up Duck!
Monday, November 17th, 2008Well I started on NaNoBloWhateverIGotLostSomeWhereInTheMiddleOfTheAcroCumuloNymbusMo by accident. Some days I can’t find anything to write and others I’ve more than I need. Anyway the Princess Trust show from the other night has started turning up on YouTube and here are three of the bits I liked most. [All now removed]
Le Doulos
Sunday, November 16th, 2008I saw a write up of Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Le Doulos [1963] in one of those greatest films of all time lists burried between the always present classics and the good recent films that get voted onto lists for a few years and then fade. It caught my attention because its not one of the […]
Spooks won't be Winning…
Monday, November 10th, 2008…Great British Menu. Microwaving a land mine might be an original way to diffuse it (and inverts the microwave as bomb from Under Siege) – unfortunately it was a dastardly French landmine so it would fail the test of being regional. Not sure if it would count as seasonal either. The Bondish technobable element (like […]
Burn after Reading
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Today’s cinema outing was to see Burn after Reading a film more in the style of a 1970s or 1960s slow burning thriller than the big action thrillers usually made today. There were no car chases or fight scenes, no high tech gadgets or flash cars and not one of the characters was remotely competent […]