The Partner In Crime (henceforth to be known as The PIC, as I now find the acronymed moniker of “OH” [Other Half] to be insulting to both of our whole selves) has this desperate habit of making me watch horrific… Read More ›
Film
[FILM] John Wick
“John Wick doesn’t need to speak to you when all he wants to do is shoot everyone in the face.” John Wick, a former mob hitman, is forced out of retirement in order to track down, and brutally murder, the… Read More ›
[NEWS] The Sunday Spew (22nd February 2015)
I’m about as rusty as one of Salad Finger’s rusty spoons (don’t look that up), but I can’t let the first Sunday of one of my periodic returns pass without attempting a Sunday Spew. No time for foreplay either, so… Read More ›
[FILM] Fifty Shades of Grey
The date is February 14th, the year 2015. All across the land bored housewives and desperate singletons experience an intense frothing of the private parts as they flock to cinemas to watch a modern masterpiece that is heralded as being… Read More ›
Chats With Dad
As I was spending some quality time with the old man watching the World Cup last Sunday, which also happened to be Father’s Day, I noted, rather belatedly, that many blogs were doing something special to mark the occasion. So,… Read More ›
[FILM] A Million Ways To Die In The West
“I know this is going to sound a little harsh, but I find MacFarlane funnier when I can’t see him.” Albert Stark (Seth MacFarlane) is a pretty useless sheep farmer who lives in Arizona circa 1882. He despises the frontier and… Read More ›
[FILM] Cuban Fury
“The story was, as you might guess, very predictable, but I don’t hold that against it.” As a child, Bruce Garrett (Nick Frost) was a salsa dancing champion. He had feet of flames; Le Passion his constant companion. That is… Read More ›
[FILM] Pompeii
Wellity, I’ve collected a few choice picks from the list of May’s DVD releases. They included Her, Veronica Mars, That Awkward Moment and Pompeii. Last eve was the turn of Paul Anderson’s attempt at a blockbusting epic, so I put on… Read More ›
[NEWS] The Sunday Spew (25th May 2014)
Typically, the week I return to Blogdom turns out to be one of the slowest news weeks in my goldfish memory. I’ll just have to make do, and I promise I’ll stop making stuff up.* — TWITCHOOGLETUBE.TV – The internets exploded… Read More ›
Valentine’s Day – Have A Say
Ah, l’amour. Whether you’re forever alone or a married old crusty, the fact that Valentine’s Day looms this week will not have escaped your notice. As many of you will know (or are about to find out), I am not… Read More ›
[NEWS] The Monday Spew (2nd December 2013)
It’s time for The Monday Spew! You’re getting the weekly spewage today instead of the regular Sunday. I hope you don’t mind. I would have done it when I was supposed to but once 6pm hit I found myself unable… Read More ›
[FILM] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
It seems as though the world and his ma have been reviewing Catching Fire in a frenzy of superlatives and JLaw pics. I’m afraid I’ll be no different as today I did exactly what I claimed I would do in… Read More ›
[NEWS] The Sunday Spew (24th November 2013)
DOCTOR… WHO? – There’s some important birthday or anniversary going on this week and Dr. Who fans everywhere are busy geekgasming and sliding off their chairs in their own excitement. I’ve never watched Dr. Who myself and don’t ask me… Read More ›
[NEWS] The Sunday Spew (17th November 2013)
It has been a slow enough geek news week folks, with the only headlines making waves being the SONY PLAYSTATION 4 RELEASE in the USofA. Those if us in the Eurozone have a little longer to wait before we can… Read More ›
[FILM] Threesome – R.I.P.D., Pacific Rim, After Earth
I had said that some of my October DVD Releases deserved a post of their own. I did, however, find that wasn’t the case for all of them and for once I ran short of words when it came to… Read More ›
[FILM] The Way Way Back
As mentioned last week in The Sunday Spew, in a bid to review all of the October DVD releases of films I’ve yet to see I’ve managed to get through three out of thirteen of them. I was planning on… Read More ›
[FILM] Byzantium
There was no doubt in my mind that I would eventually watch this film. For two reasons. The first being the massive Irish connections and the second being vampires. I like vampires. And I’m not talking the teen sparkly angst… Read More ›
[NEWS] The Sunday Spew (10th November 2013)
I’m not the kind of blogger who quick-posts; I can’t quick-fire ramblings out into the ether in minutes. I struggle with my time management frequently and often find it quite impossible to write an entry under one thousand words. In… Read More ›
[FILM] V Does DVD Releases (September)
Last weekend saw me attempt to plow through the September DVD releases of movies I didn’t have the chance to see when they were in theaters. World War Z was first on my list. I munched through an entire box… Read More ›
[FILM] The Conjuring
I will begin this review by stating that I am no Horror Movie Maven. I’m easily frightened and I will jump and squeal like a scalded cat should someone jump out at me from behind a door. Even if I… Read More ›
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