Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Review’ Category
The Mechanic Movie Review
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011The latest Jason Statham action movie, The Mechanic, is a solid action flick that suffers from one major Fridge Pipe moment. On my entirely personal measurement system, The Statham Scale (where Crank is 1 and The Bank Job is a 10) I’d say The Mechanic was a 7 (so just below The Transporter). Personally I […]
The King’s Speech
Friday, January 14th, 2011In case you’ve not already heard The King’s Speech is a costume drama based on real life events around the end of the reign of King George V, King Edward VIII time on the throne and George VI reign up to the outbreak of World War II. It’s focus is not the abdication, death or […]
SkinVue9 Review
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010I’ve used David Burdick’s SkinVue since it first came out. This handy tool for Vue speeds up the process of making Poser figures look good in Vue. It can work with figures brought in as Poser, obj, or Collada import so both Poser and Daz Studio users can make use of it. SkinVue can work […]
Monsters Review
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Just back from seeing Monsters at FACT in Liverpool followed by an excellent meal at Tapas Tapas. Monsters is a science fiction, road movie, love story, monster invasion film and I can’t think of a single film to really compare it to. Six years after giant aliens landed on Earth the South of the US […]
The American
Sunday, December 5th, 2010The American is probably the slowest film I’ve seen in a long time – it’s certainly the slowest thriller I’ve seen for several years. Personally I really liked how slow it was but, as was the case for the friend I went to see it with, it could be too slow for many. George Clooney’s […]
Dragonmeet 2010 Convention Report
Sunday, November 28th, 2010So I finally made it to Dragonmeet, its taken me a few years but this time I did it. My planning fu was weak so I’d not decided to go till quite late on so I was staying four miles from Kensington and eight from the centre of London. This did mean I got to […]
The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle and The Wellcome Trust: High Society
Saturday, November 27th, 2010On my way to Dragon meet 2010 in London I decided to visit a couple of exhibitions on the way by chance both had a similar theme – Ink and the Bottle at the The Cartoon Museum and High Society at The Wellcome Collection. The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle Not the largest museum […]
Burke and Hare Review
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010I’ll keep this short because Burke and Hare doesn’t have a lot to be said about it. Pegg and Serkis make an interesting pair in the title roles and had some chemistry but they are left to carry the film. Fisher and Hynes aren’t bad as the respective character’s love interest and wife. Unfortunately their […]
RED – Retired Extremely Dangerous – Review
Saturday, October 30th, 2010RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) probably won’t appeal to everyone but I really enjoyed it. I’ve made no secret that RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) was a film I wanted to see since the teaser trailer turned up on You Tube. Even once I’d read some reviews that compared it to rotten vegetables I still wanted to […]
The Crime Writer's Guide to Police Practice and Procedure
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010A short review Michael O’Byrne’s The Crime Writer’s Guide to Police Practice and Procedure