Yesterday we took my son to see The Smurfs, a film I wasn’t very excited about seeing I have to admit. However, my spirits were raised somewhat when I walked into the cinema lobby and saw this great picture of Darth Maul hanging on the wall. If you’ve read this post you’ll know that I’m [...]
Archive for the ‘Films’ Category
Top 50 Classic Rock Bands Project #1: The Beatles – Revolver
July 21st, 2011
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With my music taste often stuck in the 80s to mid 90s, and rarely out of the hair rock genre, I decided it was time to expand my musical horizons and so searched Google for the best rock bands. One of the links took me to the About.com Top 50 Classic Rock Bands, which interestingly [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 19 – A Song From Your Favourite Album
June 8th, 2011
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There’s a constant battle going on in my mind as to whether Slippery When Wet or New Jersey is my favourite album, both by Bon Jovi. At this moment in time it’s New Jersey. Lay Your Hands On Me, Bad Medicine and Born To Be My Baby would be the obvious choices but it’s actually [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 6 – A Song That Reminds You Of Somewhere
May 26th, 2011
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Last May we took Lucas (our son, 3 now, 2 at the time of this story) on his first proper holiday to stay in a cottage in North Devon. We stayed at my Dad’s for a couple of days beforehand and on the Monday we left for the cottage I bought the debut album from Diana Vickers. You may remember her [...]
I hate the cinema, but that wasn’t the only reason Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides disappointed me.
May 19th, 2011
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History My love affair with Pirates of the Caribbean started in October 2001 when we visited Tokyo Disneyland and it was by far my favourite attraction, of those we managed to fit into our one day visit. July 2002 was our first of 10 holidays in Disneyland Paris and again, Pirates of the Caribbean was [...]
The Young Guns bubble has burst
March 8th, 2011
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Though the Young Guns films are over 20 years old it has taken me until this past weekend to watch them, even though they’ve been on my ‘to watch’ list for all that time. It’s not the actual films themselves that appealed to me so much but the soundtrack to Young Gungs II, Blaze of [...]
Yes, I liked Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a lot
March 6th, 2011
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Growing up the Star Wars were my films. I was just too young to see A New Hope in the cinema but I did see Empire Strikes Back and watched in awe as the AT-ATs strode across the snowy landscapes of Hoff and gasped as Vader told Luke that he was his father. Like many children [...]
A Sad Farewell to Friday Night Lights
February 14th, 2011
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Back around 1991 I saw a book in a bookshop (good place to fine one) called Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, which looked to be about (American) Football and boasted being written by the Purlitzer Prize winning H G Bissinger. That was enough to entice me and so I bought [...]
