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Sweeny Todd: Blood on Celluloid

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

(Don’t worry about the banner above saying Christmas – the film company doesn’t seem to have thought about anywhere but USA) Just been to see Sweeny Todd at FACT in Liverpool. One of my favourite musicals – we staged it on when I was at school. Almost spoilt by the couple who needed to get […]

The Golden Compass

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I’m not going to analyse this on in any great depth and having not read the book I can’t compare it to that. Enjoyable, well acted fun with good special effects. It suffered from a little bit too much of the coo look its X, oh look they’ve gone. Sometimes using a recognisable actor in […]

Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0

Friday, July 6th, 2007

It’s been twelve years since we last saw John McClane. Now thanks to an interesting new application of the delete key by a group of bad guys who don’t seem to do things the simple way when there is a complicated way to do it, he’s back in action. This is the kind of popcorn […]

Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

I’m just going to ask one question… Just one… Has the whole point of the last three series of Doctor Who been to set up a one gag story arc for Captain Jack? In other news Last of the Time Lords managed not to be a lacklustre series finale and didn’t resort to a silly […]

Doctor Who: Utopia

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

I’m not going to say a huge amount about this episode except it did the things that the better episodes of the new Doctor Who do: Foreshadowing and not just springing an ending that seems almost tacked on Pace Misdirection Interesting setting Good story Character development It also had a huge advantage in that it […]

Dr Who – Gridlock

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Caught up with last nights Doctor Who which was a cracking episode. A good episode but maybe not as good as the first two because "The Shakespeare Code" and "Smith and Jones" went to more trouble to establish a solution to the problem in the plot rather than The Doctor pluging wire A in to […]

Dr Who – Smith and Jones

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Due to tiredness and need to be up early today (see my post later once I’ve picked out a picture to go with it) delayed this post till today. I’ll not spend too much time on it to avoid posting any spoilers. Enjoyable fluff that made logical sense and was coherent without an over reliance […]

Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Watched the first part of the new BBC two part Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars while running a render this afternoon. Not another adaptation of a Conan Doyle but a new story inspired by his work. I’d been a bit nervous they might have gone all Robin Hood Men in Gap on it. […]

Cop Night #3

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

More robbers than Cops tonight really. Just finished watching The League of Gentlemen which arrived from Amazon today. Not the situation comedy but the film from 1960 that the series took its name from in which Jack Hawkins and a hand picked crew of ex soldiers stage a bank robbery. The focus is on the […]

Almost lost by Life on Mars

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Watched last nights Life on Mars last night. Since I know someone who reads this regularly hasn’t watched it yet I’ll avoid any spoilers. The story had me worried about half way through that they’d lost the plot. They were playing up the whole he’s from the future thing a bit too much for me. […]

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