Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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17 Apr
Having spent a weekend ill on the couch unable to turn the light, look at a monitor for longer than 10minutes or read I managed to get through quite a few films.
Some of these were good, some were great, some won’t be watched again – a good mixture then. The unwatched pile however has not [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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17 Apr
I almost forgot that I went to the cinema to see this. Having never watched Gavin and Stacey I didn’t really know what to expect. What I had expected was a vampire spoof, anything spoofing the lesbian vampire sub-genre would be a bonus.
What I got was, well, mince. Dire acting, pitiful jokes, ridiculous symbolism. Lesbian [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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16 Feb
The latest 3/£5 Grouchos acquisition to be watched was Happy Endings.
At times it could be a bit of a slog at over 2 hours long, but it was well worth it in the end. It had a really unusual style. The introduction had the screen split in halves with textual detail of who was who [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Funny, Poetry, Review by: Alan G
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13 Feb
Well, I had decided to give Skins one more go before giving up. Episode 3 had been an improvement on 1 and 2 (not hard to be honest) especially with the chilli love. Episode 4 started off pretty well and at one point I heard two lines of dialogue and realised holy crap, Genna asked [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Politics, Review by: Alan G
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01 Feb
Slumdog Millionaire looks set to sweep awards at every ceremony for the next few months. The rags-to-riches love story covering three time periods in the main characters lives is brilliantly shot, directed, cast and acted. It certainly lives up to the hype. If you enjoyed Boyles previous films – Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 X Later, [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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23 Jan
One of my favourite Day One* tracks was Trying too Hard given the hip soundtrack to Skins it really should have been used on Series 3 Episode 1.
I really liked Series 1 and 2, there was a willingness to explore topics few other series would as well as quite good character arcs. With the cast [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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15 Jan
After checking imdb, I have watched twenty three movies with Johnny Depp in them. Some of them great (Donnie Brasco, Edward Scissorhands), some good, (Pirates of the Caribbean) some of them unwatchable dirge (Secret Window, The Brave, Dead Man, Pirates 2, Pirates 3 etc).
Having picked The Astronaughts Wife up for one and two thirds of [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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06 Jan
Movies: First week of January 2009
Generally after making tea, doing dishes and catching up on random e-mails we settle down to a movie, anything from rom-com to horror to world cinema.
So far the ones which I haven’t blocked out this year have been:
Dead Creatures
Catacombs
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
Dead Creatures was [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Review, Vodka, ingredient: wheat, origin: Russia by: Alan G
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09 Nov
Russian Standard has been heavily advertised in the media lately*. Tesco for a while were punting it at £25 for 2 litres which is pretty good. It has quite a nice flavour to it so I try to make sure I have a bottle in (although I don’t just now).
Volume: 1L
Alcohol: 40%
Cost: £12.50
Cheapest spotted: £12.50/litre [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Review, ingredient: grain, origin: US by: Alan G
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09 Nov
SKYY has been my favourite vodka for a while now. The other half brought me back a bottle from New York and it was gorgeous. Was a bit of a nightmare to find locally though, online it was costing £22 for a 70cl!
On the recent holiday to Mexico I made sure to grab 2 litre [...]