Month: January 2005
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2005
Ray Snoddy has penned a very good piece about what 2005 might bring in the UK’s media world. Unfortunately, the online version is subscription only at Brand Republic, so I’ll paraphrase some of his points here. Given the state of the dollar against the pound at the moment, he doesn’t see ITV as being sold…
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The Dumas Club
The Dumas Club is another of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novels with historical riddles seemingly leading our hero on the trail of something. In this instance, we have a book collector who’s after a collection of three copies of a demonic books, of which only one copy can be the real one. At the same time, there’s…
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House of Flying Daggers
The House of Flying Daggers is Zhang Yimou’s latest film, except that unlike his last film, Hero, we haven’t had to wait three years to get it. The plot involves lots of double-crossing and a secret society – the House of Flying Daggers – of whom Ziyi Zhang is a member. She seems to be…
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National Treasure
I don’t know exactly when this film began production, but a smart mover like Jerry Bruckheimer could probably have greenlit and turned around this film in pretty short order. To say that it shares certain traits with The Da Vinci code would be putting it loosely. It’s a romp around north eastern America in search…
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Thirty Years Later
It seems that Roy Jenkins wasn’t a fan of ID Cards. At the time it was being discussed as a way to combat Irish terrorist atrocities. Just replace “Irish” for “Islamic Fundamentalist” and see what difference it all really makes.
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The Da Vinci Chronograph
While the Dan Brown phenomenom roles relentlessly on, I was amused to see an advert for the Da Vinci Chronograph. A bargain at just £145, made by an ancient German company or something. Anyway, I’m not exactly a horologist or anything, but it strikes me that Da Vinci owned no such watch. He died in…