Category: Reviews
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Obviously I had to watch this Terminator movie, because it stars Christian Bale and, well, it’s a Terminator movie. It was fun, but it definitely didn’t have the intensity of purpose or the cleanliness of plot of the first two. The plot is messy, and has holes you can drive a truck through. But it…
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I saw this last week, and I liked it. It’s a Swedish Vampire movie set in 60s Sweden, so it has a simple and old-fashioned feeling to it, with that sense of slight poverty that movies set in that time tend to have. Like most Vampire movies it is a love story, but this one…
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I am not a big fan of Pixar productions, for the prime and simple reason that, like most western cartoons, and particularly like their Masters at Disney, they are overbearingly misogynist. Well, not as much as Disney itself, which I contend employs a misogynator, a special staff member whose job is running around the creative…
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I am reading The Watchmen, which was given to me by one of my players/DMs (we alternate) who, even though he works in IT, is so old-skool he doesn’t even have a blog. At least, not one he’s shown me. This isn’t the reason I can’t quite get into The Watchmen though. The reason is…
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Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I don’t like theatre much, though I do go to see a play on the odd occasion (approximately every 2 years). Generally theatre is like bad television, in my opinion, only confronting. However, when it’s good, theatre is just great. So it was with the play Shunkin,…
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This review is completely free of spoilers. I went to see the Korean movie The Good The Bad The Weird last night, it was completely Feng Shui (ish). It’s a Korean cowboy movie set in 30s Manchuria, with big elements of Hard Boiled built in and no martial arts. This is refreshing – don’t get…
Compromise and Conceit 