June 2012
98 posts
The Wonderful World of Blogging
Back in 2010 I started my first blog. I wrote a minute post and published it. I then ignored it for almost exactly one year.
I quite literally had forgotten all about it. I had so many other things going on in my life that I didn’t have time to post to… View Post shared via WordPress.com
The Amazing Spider-Man Returns...Again
With the 2002 release of Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst as ‘Spidey‘ and his love interest, I felt that Sam Raimihad done justice to Stan “The Man” Lee’s comic creation. Two more films quickly followed and a fourth was rumoured to be in… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Westerns →
The Devils Rejects (2005): Zombie Western Horror
Rob had an idea for a sequel while filming Corpses about the sheriff’s brother coming after the Firefly clan in an act of deadly revenge. With the idea in place Zombie began to craft The Devil’s Rejects with the aim of making the film less comedic and… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Sam →
Snow →
Wrinkles →
Grave Encounters (2011) Great Start...Poor Finish
Written and directed by The Vicious Brothers, Grave Encounters is their maiden voyage as it were into the film world. Using the obligatory horror genre as their entrance, I am sure that the idea worked really well in script and storyboard form.
I… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Suffer the Little Children
Image via CrunchBase
Most people, myself included, love looking at videos on the net about babies. YouTube is full of them. They all make you laugh or go “aww.”
They are almost as popular as the animal videos. You know the ones I mean. Cute kittens and… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Max Payne 3 - Conclusions
Okay, so I finished Max Payne 3 last night, well early this morning, and I had a little think about the game. I was perhaps a bit harsh on the game, in my ‘first thoughts‘ on it. Because all said, it was a fun play through.
Now admittedly I’m not a… View Post shared via WordPress.com
True Grit
True Grit John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I was sitting here perusing my old blog posts when I suddenly got the image of John Wayne as Rooster Cogburnin my head. As I sat there mentally studying Rooster, I thought of the title… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Waiting →
House of a 1000 Corpses (2003): Horror Zombie...
Released in 2003, House of a 1000 Corpses had actually been sitting on a shelf since it had been made in 2000. Studios were reluctant to release it as they were unsure of the rating it would receive from the film board.
Corpses marks Rob Zombies… View Post shared via WordPress.com
What if I Wrote a Blog and No One Read It...
2012 has been a year of stiff competition. I still do several blog-posts per day and my views vary accordingly.
I say accordingly, because there are a lot of factors that dictate how many, if any, views your blog will receive on any given day. For… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Assassin's Creed III - Meh With a Capital M
I must be one of the only people in the world who is not excited about the upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed III. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike the Assassin’s Creed franchise. I’ve just gotten bored with it.
When Assassin’s Creed first came out… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Moon Child (2003) I'm Just a Teenage Vampire,...
Directed by Takahisa Zeze (Raiyo, Dog Star), Moon Child was co-written by Zeze, Gackt and Kishû Izuchi. The film marks the film début of both Gackt and Hyde. It’s cast also features Tarô Yamamoto (Battle Royale, Get Up!), Ryo Ishibashi (The Grudge 2, A… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Housekeeping →
Doors →
Spring Cleaning
Spring cleaning (Photo credit: Bianca Nogrady)
Okay, I know that I’ve kind of missed the spring cleaning season. But not by a lot. Especially if you go by the weather. The calendar may say summer, but the weather says spring. That’s my excuse and I’m not… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Games →
Baggage →
WordPress versus Blogger.com
WordPress (Photo credit: Adriano Gasparri)
I will openly admit to loving wordpress.
Don’t think that this declaration of love was easily given. But, dog-gone it, I’m impressed. I have had a blog on wordpress for a fraction of the time I’ve spent on Blogg… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Hidden Treasure →
Fear...Is An Animal
Male elephant in Etosha National Park, Namibia Kiswahili: Tembo katika mbuga la burudani Etosha, Namibia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Fear is an animal that can disrupt your life, your well being, your calm. It can be many different kinds of animals.
It is… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Hop, Skip, Shimmy, Jump
I seem to be suffering from a combination of ADHD of the brain and a curious type of lethargy. How the two can co-exist in the same grey mass of brain is puzzling and not a little irritating.
I have thought processes that slowly start to work and wham!… View Post shared via WordPress.com
She's Never Coming Back by Hans Koppel - Revenge...
Published in 2011, She’s Never Coming Back is a heady combination of crime thriller and mystery. Written by Hans Koppel, which is in fact “a pseudonym for an established Swedish Author who was born in 1964 and lives in Stockholm.
In actual fact Hans… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Burned by Thomas Enger - A Norwegian Phonex
Touted on the back of the book as Enger‘s debut novel, Burned is a brilliant jig saw puzzle of a mystery/thriller. Debut novel it may well be, but if you take the time to look up Thomas Enger’s biography on Goodreads, you’ll find that he has been writing… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Crows Zero (2007): A Yakuza Is Born
Adapted from Hiroshi Takahashi‘s manga Crow’s, the screenplay was written by Shôgo Mutô and directed by the iconic Takashi Miike. I have read that this is a ‘loose’ adaptation of the manga, while that may be true, the film itself is visually impressive… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Gone By Michael Grant - But Not Over
Written by Michael Grant and first published in 2008, Gone is a brilliant start to a series about the youthful survivors of a shattered California town.
Set in the fictional seaside town of Perdida Beach. The book starts with the literal disappearance of… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Thirst (2009): It's In the Blood
There are a lot of people who watched this film simply because it’s by the iconic, cult favourite, South Korean director/auteur - Chan-wook Park. Chan-wook, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Seo-Gyeong Jeon which is based on the book Thérèse Raquinb… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Relationships on line...The New Blind Date?
Come Dine with Me (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While eating our tea and watching Come Dine With Me, a particular vice that we’ve grown accustomed to in our house (Don’t judge!), an advert for an ‘on-line’ dating servicecame on the telly. It was a very good… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nightmare by Stephen Leather - A Nightingale Sings
I have to start by saying that I came late to this party. The book Nightmare is the third in what is apparently going to be a long and enjoyable series. Nightmare begins after book two Midnight has ended.
(God, I am so clever…not)
Nightmare opens with… View Post shared via WordPress.com
So Much To Do...So Much Time
Being off work, with a work related injury, has been a small blessing. It has also been a curse and a downright pain in the butt.
It has given me time to reflect, internalise and worry. It has also given me too much time to do too many things.
I… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Rise (2007) Drink Like an Egyptian →
Rise (2007) Drink Like an Egyptian
Rise (2007) Drink Like an Egyptian
Written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and starring Lucy Liu and Michael Chiklis, Risewas Gutierrez’s third time at bat as a director. Despite the talented cast and taut storyline, Rise on it’s release got a pretty poor reception. It received a 33%… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Carnage (2011): Comedy of the Correct
Carnage (2011 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have just finished watching Roman Polanski‘s Carnage. Adapted from the play ‘Le Dieu du carnage‘ written by Yasmina Reza and adapted for the screen by Yasmina and Roman Polanski. I have not laughed so hard… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Gorging Myself on Books
books (Photo credit: brody4)
I am reading four books at once. Well, not at once, more like at the same time. I’m like a hummingbird darting from one nectar filled flower to another.
I open a book, a quickly reada chapter or two, then set that book down… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Don't read your old posts
Fun With Dick and Jane (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have learned the hard way that I shouldn’t read my old posts. Every time I do, I find something I don’t like about it. Or I’ll edit and re-edit the damn thing.
I can spend ages fiddling around with… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Blues
I am having my MRI done tomorrow. I have to admit, I am a little worried. Not because of the MRI itself, but rather, what it might show. I have had one before, it showed the specialist treating my lower backproblem what was happening and ultimately how… View Post shared via WordPress.com
George Carlin (b:May 12, 1937 – d:June 22, 2008)...
Playin’ with Your Head (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The world lost a brilliant comedian when George Denis Patrick Carlin died. But George wasn’t just a comedian. He was a talented actor (Dogma, Car Wash, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) a master satirist,… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Men in Black 3 (2012) Here We Go Again...Again
Whether or not the third instalment of the Men in Black (MIB) series was highly anticipated or not depends on who you talk to. Most critics agreed that Men in Black II was a ‘wash-out’ and was mediocre at best.
Box office receipts tell a different… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jackie Chan is NOT retiring from Action Films
Chan in his Hollywood breakthrough film Rumble in the Bronx. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A month ago it was reported that Jackie Chan, while at the Cannes Film Festival promoting his latest film Chinese Zodiac, made a public announcement that he would no… View Post shared via WordPress.com
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008): Jackie Chan & Jet Li...
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008): Jackie Chan & Jet Li Wow Cover of The Forbidden Kingdom
Directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little 1 & 2) and written by John Fusco (Hidalgo, Young Guns 1 & 2), The Forbidden Kingdom has scored a couple of ‘firsts.’
It is the first time in cinema historythat a western… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Twins Effect (2003) AKA Vampire Effect: Pop Goes...
Cover of Twins Effect (Sub)
Co-directed by Dante Lam, Donnie Yen, and starring Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi (from the Cantopop group Twins), Ekin Cheng, Edison Chen (The US Grudge 2) and Jackie Chan(in a brilliant cameo). The film was made to capitalise… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Red Lights (2012): Little Things That You Do
Written and directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried, The Contestant) Red Lights is really a psychological cum paranormal thriller. Rodrigo’s last film Buried did so well, that the studios obviously trusted him to work with the bigmoney, aka star actors. You… View Post shared via WordPress.com
The Expendables (2010) Tattooed Tough Guys
The Expendables (2010) Tattooed Tough Guys The Expendables (2010 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With The Expendables 2 opening across the UK in August this year, with bigger roles for Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And with the news that The Expendables 3 will soon start filming, I’ve… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Brother (2000): LA Yakuza →
