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My Weekend in Pictures

My Weekend in Pictures

Weddings!  Nobody likes looking at other peoples wedding photos do they?  No they do not, and given that we have been to one for Sally’s nephew this weekend in a very deep and not particularly dark part of Somerset I shall keep this one brief.  We had a great time.  That is all.  Here are [...]

July 5, 2009 | 0 Comments More
Transformers Gives Me Food For Thought

Transformers Gives Me Food For Thought

A short while ago I wrote a post entitled Death of the Cinema, where I talked about how the movie going experience has been somehwat lost to me recently.  Rising ticket costs and the fact that the sound and picture quality, combined with the fact I have to do at least a forty mile round [...]

June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments More
Out on Poole Quay

Out on Poole Quay

We went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen yesterday afternoon, but beforehand we took a trip into Poole.  We tend not to come over to this part of town that often now, I try and avoid it at the weekends after coming to this area each day for work. I’ve taken snaps of Poole [...]

June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments More
Blu-ray Review: Punisher: War Zone

Blu-ray Review: Punisher: War Zone

Released back in 2004, the first Punisher was very much a Marvel property given a cautious outing.  The budget was relatively low by both comic adaptation and Hollywood standards, and while it wasn’t a particularly great movie (you can read my review of the very shoddy UK Blu-ray release here) it had its moments.  Particularly [...]

June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments More
Blu-ray Review: The International

Blu-ray Review: The International

As long as there are movies that require a rather dishevelled looking, likeable figure that isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty, Clive Owen will always be in work. In The International he plays Louis Salinger, an Interpol agent who is working to bring down one of the world’s most powerful banks, the IBBC.  For [...]

June 20, 2009 | 0 Comments More