July 2008
7 posts
1 tag
This week, I have only been:
trying to get my Xbox to speak to the Internet, or so it would seem.
1 tag
This week, I have mostly been:
thinking I’d be a bit miffed if I was sent off to a parallel universe with a genocidal, half-Catherine Tate thing for company
rediscovering custard
finally getting to grips with how this whole RSS thing works.
Best Animated Feature feature
Okay, so this is pretty pointless, but also pretty interesting.
What, I ask you, are the chances of an animated film ever getting a Best Picture Oscar nomination now that the Best Animated Feature Film category exists (introduced in 2001)? And given that it took the Academy far too long to even acknowledge animation in the first place, what should have won in this category, had it always...
A thorough critical analysis of the film Rec
Terrifying. Bloody terrifying.
Rec
Tonight the young Dr and I are going to the cinema* to see Rec, a film I know almost nothing about. Here is what I know about it:
it’s Spanish
it’s a horror film
it’s one of those films that nobody quite knows how to write - I’ve seen it referred to in various places as Rec, [Rec] and [•Rec], because people just latch onto the type treatment from credits and posters and...
1 tag
This week, I have mostly been:
starting to appreciate the brutalism of York’s Stonebow House
getting quite excited about the impending opening of the Duchess of York (the club/venue, not Sarah Ferguson… that’d be weird.)
recasting Dr Who in my head
buying tickets to see the Dark Knight on the biggest screen imaginable
burning a hole in someone else’s credit card
getting a little bit addicted to...
June 2008
11 posts
This is why I should carry a camera with me...
I got off the bus the other day to see Iron Man holding hands with a very young Mask (the Jim Carrey one, not the Eric Stoltz one), using a cash machine while a tank rolled by. This was in the centre of York.