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Quantum of Solace

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Just back from watching the new Bond film Quantum of Solace at the new Odeon in Liverpool 1. I’ll talk about the cinema tomorrow for tonight I’ll foist my opinion of the film on the rest of the world. The pre credit sequence opens up fast and hard in media res and is very effective […]

Making a Searchlight in Vue

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Vue doesn’t have a parallel light source that creates a fixed width beam so making search lights and other lights with parallel edges requires a little work. Here is one way I’ve used, it may not work for all situations but it works for some. All the values I give here are those I used […]

Searchlight in Vue

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Jonj1611 asked on Renderosity how to create a searchlight like effect in Vue – if this is what he’s looking for I’ll post an explanation here soon. Edit: Its now up as: Making a Searchlight in Vue

Tropic Thunder

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Went to see Tropic Thunder yesterday at FACT. Enjoyed it. I’d read a couple of reviews that said it was packed with too many in jokes but I didn’t think that was a problem. Stand out performances were Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise. Jack Black’s role didn’t seem to work too well, partly because […]

Get Smart

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Its funny, its got quality slap stick and its definitly Get Smart. You want more detail? OK. Far too many TV remakes have become cynical, star vehicle exercises. Shows which wern’t comedies reduced to a series of punch lines, some "funny" period references (drugs, flared trousers, sexism, bad haircuts or whatever) and a manufactured gag […]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

My trip into the city centre earlier was to catch Hellboy 2. So here’s the short review – not a bad film. The action was good. The special effects were good. The acting was (you guessed it) good. It had nice character moments and it proved again that Ron Perlman should get more leading roles […]

The Dark Knight

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Went to see The Dark Knight last Saturday – got back too late to want to go online and write this (very short) review. Enjoyed it. It was a bit long but I couldn’t see anywhere particularly to cut it without making it a poorer film. It also takes a brave script writer to keep […]

The Emperor and the Tiger

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Went to see Walk the Plank’s The Emperor and the Tiger in Newsham park in Liverpool tonight. It seemed to have drawn a reasonable crowd. I’d thought it might not because I’d only seen the poster at the start of the week but coverage on the front page of the local papers and the regional […]

Review – Wanted

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Short spoiler free review: only go and see this if you can live with an action picture entirely lacking a heart or soul which justifies its existance by lashing itself to a far too cool barrel before throwing itself into a river above a waterfall. Which isn’t a good thing TM. So I went to […]

I Hold in My Hand…

Friday, June 20th, 2008

… my paper copy of Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 3. It will be joining my growing pile of summer reading including Pulp Fiction The Villains,June’s BBC History Magazine (for the articles on revolution and Chamberlain’s place in history being unfair), July’s BBC Focus (for the articles on what Britain would be like if all the […]

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