Having just finished reading Moondust, I’ve been thinking about the moon quite a bit. It was such a feat of human ingenuity, such a risk, such a financial cost to get there ($100bn in today’s dollars), and nothing has come close to it since. Why did we do it? Why is it still so mesmerizing [...]
Hot Fuzz is as good as I hoped and almost as good as Shaun of the Dead. It also provides a unintented metaphor for the Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism debate. It’s set in a quiet English village where the inhabitants live in a state of denial about the frequent deaths of fellow inhabitants, always attributing [...]
There a few movies this year I am really looking forward to. Firstly Evan Almighty, sequel to Bruce Almighty…
then Michael May’s Tranformers…
but mostly, Hot Fuzz from the makers of Shaun Of The Dead…
One of my favourite films is the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell, so I was really excited to get a copy of the sequel Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence recently, and really bummed to find it was only in Japanese. So I thought I was being well clever downloading English subtitles from the [...]
Sophie Scholl is the true story of a young Christian woman living in Nazi Germany during WWII. She and her brother Hans were members of a passive resistance group called the White Rose that secretly distributed leaflets telling the truth about Hitler’s war and painted anti-Nazi slogans on the walls of public buildings. Unfortunately she [...]
So the same day as I declare my new found adoration for Dolly Parton, I try persuading my friends to go see a movie about a little girl going to a beauty pageant. People were asking questions…
…until we saw Little Miss Sunshine, which was amazing! I can’t remember the last time I heard a packed [...]
