Month: November 2009
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2012
Look – it’s my own fault. I should have gone to see An Education instead. But somehow, even though I knew in advance it’d be garbage, actors like John Cusack and Thandie Newton drew me in. And I went and saw 2012. I’ll try to atone next week when the new Coen brothers film comes…
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The Tardis at No. 1 Golden Square
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Breaking The Code
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitmore dates from 1986, but I’d only previously seen the 1996 TV adaptation starring Derek Jacobi which was very good. So when I learnt the other week that there was a new production in London I thought I should go and see it, as Alan Turing is a fascinating man…
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Radio at the Edge – Factoid Videos
Yesterday I was at the excellent Radio at the Edge conference 2009 (my notes are here). My major contribution to the conference was a series of “factoid” videos introducing different sessions. If you were there and the statistics flashed by too fast, then I’ve put them on YouTube. My “ecelctic” music choices also saw some…
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Radio at the Edge 2009
[Update: Over at the Onegoldensquare blog, I’ve written a less detailed summary which might be easier to read] [Update 2: The Radio Academy has now published all the video and audio from Monday on their website. Also included are the various presentations given at the event!] Live(ish) from London’s MIllbank – it’s not exactly like…
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The Men Who Stare At Goats.
I’ve been quite a fan of Jon Ronson for ages, and read The Men Who Stare At Goats when it came out. In it Ronson went out and met some very strange people who’d been funded by the US military to develop psychic abilities for the aid or prevention of warfare. For this film version…
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Bunny and the Bull
I got invited to a bloggers’ screening of Bunny and the Bull, and went in knowing little to nothing about the film. The film’s writer and director, Paul King, has directed nearly every episode of The Mighty Boosh, but although I like that programme, I’ve only seen it intermittantly, whereas some live and breathe all…
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Radio Radio
I’ve been listening to a few fascinating bits of radio recently, most of which are no longer listenable and may never be in quite the form I heard them, but are largely available to hear in one format or another right now. First up has got to be a short fifteen minute programme called Runaway…
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Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity is a great little film that seems to have sprung up out of nowhere. It was actually made a couple of years ago before it was snapped up from a festival and has had a little gloss added to it. But not much. Like The Blair Witch Project, everything we see is from…
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Why Can’t I Download A Film and Burn It To DVD?
As Peter Mandelson continues to show us that he completely misunderstands the nature of the internet, a general failing of “content-owners” can be seen when you try to do something very simple that you should be able to do in this day and age but can’t. At the weekend I thought I’d try to get…