Me and Ewan McGregor
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Films, adayinthelife | No Comments »In the late 1990s, inbetween freelance web jobs, I spent a day as an extra, being a Singaporean stock trader in the film Rogue Trader, a film about how stocktrader Nick Leeson managed to bring down the United Kingdom's ...
Will this put off women from stripping in my living room?
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Films, Media Musings, adayinthelife | 2 Comments »Dodge This! Finally, I have finished painting my living room (a combo of dark red and violet white!), and thought must now go towards how to decorate it. I want to put up one movie-related poster ...
Strippers and Oscars
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Books, Films, Media Musings | 1 Comment »(Yes, it's a UK blog post NOT about the damn earthquake that may or may not have happened. For the record, I noticed it but thought it was a rumbling truck along the highway) The bookshops are groaning and heaving under ...
Beowulf - you’ll wet your pants!
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Films | 2 Comments »I've just come back from seeing a preview of Beowulf in the best possible scenario - at an IMAX screen in 3D. Let me tell you, it's a cinematic marvel. I hadn't heard anything about it at all until the other ...
Spaced + Swingers = Free Enterprise?
Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Films, Pop Culture | 3 Comments »Thinking about my previous post on how terrible an American version of Spaced would be, it occured to me that I have seen a film which features two twenty-something pop and sci-fi culture obsessives living life in the late 1990s, ...
Don’t go on an apocalyptic binge
Friday, June 15th, 2007 Posted in Books, Films, Me me me me me, Media Musings, Oy vey! | No Comments »Thanks to a random link I stumbled across, I've just spent the last fifteen minutes giving into my inner fascination with apocalyptic fiction and browsing through Wikipedia's rather substantial list of post-apocalyptic fiction, reminding me of the UK's relatively substantial ...
Is there anyone who doesn’t know who Luke’s father is?
Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in Films, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »You would have thought that after 30 years, finding people who had never seen Star Wars would be nigh on impossible. Especially people who ostensibly worked in the media. But no, it's not impossible. The BBC's entertainment reporter Kevin Young claims ...
