Movie Review: Agora
Agora (2009)I've been looking forward to this for quite some time because it's the latest film from Alejandro Amenabar, one of my favourite directors. His most well-known movie is, to my mind, his...
View ArticleReviews!: Law Abiding Citizen, Screamers, Exam, House Of Wax, Highlander:...
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)From the trailer you'd think this was an action movie about an ordinary man whose case is screwed up by the courts and who decides to take revenge on the system that failed...
View ArticleAnne Rice On Her Re-Conversion And Deconversion
Earlier this year, Rice, who was raised a Catholic, lost her faith and returned to it in middle age, posted a message on Facebook. "I quit," she wrote. "In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay....
View ArticleHusband Confronts Anti-Choice Protesters
Guy decides to have a word with the people who spend all day shouting at people.
View ArticleRecommending Me Articles Which Turn Out To Be Apologetics P****s Me Off!
Okay, I've had a bad day of apologetics recommendations. (Well, just two actually, but anyway.) I don't seek this stuff out, but in two separate places it's been recommended to me and so I'm being...
View ArticleDirector Showcase: Christopher Smith
Individual images link to the appropriate imdb page.The first movie I saw by Christopher Smith was "Severance" (RT score: 65%). I'm not even sure how I came to pick it either. I went with my girlfriend...
View ArticleTwo Lucky McKee Movies and Two Classic Black and White Movies
Lucky McKee is the director of the previously reviewed Masters Of Horror episode "Sick Girl". Here I have reviews of his two full-length movies "May" and "The Woods"I am also including reviews of two...
View ArticleWhat I Did This Halloween....
At a Therion concert in London. YAY!And I decided to try out my camera occasionally. Even in spite of the darkness, my extreme unfamiliarity with the camera's controls and the odd lack of battery, I...
View ArticleFavourite Movies By Year - Revisited
Okay, this all started with an announcement by fabfunk that he had a big long list of the best movies of 2009 and that he wanted to hear what we'd put on our own lists. Over the course of this year...
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Cold Souls (2009)I wasn’t quite sure how this was going to work. After all, we all know what souls are right? They’re the bit of you that is all floaty and goes to heaven when you die. Well actually...
View ArticleCatholic Church Try To Pretend Massive U-Turn Isn't a Massive U-Turn.
Pope Benedict says that condoms can be used to stop the spread of HIVIn a break with his traditional teaching, Pope Benedict XVI has said the use of condoms is acceptable "in certain cases", in an...
View ArticleKinect Has Issues
(Video link)In one of the games being released for Kinect, the game auto-steers so much that the car drives itself. I would not have believed this if I hadn't seen it.Lol@one of the youtube...
View Article"There Are No Good Things" - Warning about the new Doctor Who game on the...
The Nintendo Official Magazine finish their review with the following summary: Bad graphics and animation Terrible story, dialogue, acting Abysmal platforming, puzzles Reprehensible abuse of trust...
View ArticleGuardian Doesn't Understand Joss' Humour
The Guardian on Joss Whedon's latest comments on the new "Buffy movie" situation (with himself entirely excluded):Whedon reacted with fury. "This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must...
View ArticleThoughts On The CofE....
Well, Mr. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, wishes to let us know that he thinks the Church is on its last legs. And yet we've still got Bishops with guaranteed seats in the House of Lords. This is...
View ArticleFour Reviews of Movies from 2010
Toy Story 3Would you believe, I wasn't sure what to think of this one when I saw it at the cinema? I guess the thing is that coming out of a cinema you are inevitably wowed by a movie. There's a...
View ArticleFour Movie Reviews: 2 About Religion and 2 Documentaries
Eyes Wide Open (2009)I must admit that this is quite slow paced, that I wasn't able to finish it in one sitting and that it will put the average viewer (or me at least) through a fair bit of culture...
View ArticleNot-So-Fantastic Mr. Fox
Just got around to checking out Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr Fox" movie. A few people reckoned it was one of their favourite movies of 2009. I'm afraid to say it has more than realised all my worst...
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