A typically chilly Tuesday evening in Shepherds Bush, saw hoards of hand holding couples trudge across the common in support of twee pop Glaswegians Camera Obscura ; a band adored by the late John Peel and who during this exquisite time of year seem at their most fitting. First up was Yorkshire born singer songwriter Nick Garrie ; a rare treat as he’s enjoyed most of his success on the continent...
The screenwriter of "e;Bridget Jones' Diary" graduates to writer/director, pulling out all of the stops, as well as every major British talent, for this rom-com ensemble.
Rembrandt's J'Accuse . 2008. Written and directed by Peter Greenaway . Produced by Femke Wolting , Bruno Felix , and Kees Kasander . Cinematography by Reinier van Brummelen . Edited by Elmer Leupen . Music by Giovanni Sollima and Marco Robino . Production designed by Maarten Piersma . Costume design by Marrit van der Burgt . Sound by Bram Boers . Cast: Peter Greenaway (Himself), Martin Freeman (Rembrandt...
Ricky Gervais skips down the tightrope between industry satire and mainstream humour with a deftness few MCs can manage. So he's an inspired choice to host next year's Golden Globes - as these clips show The announcement that Ricky Gervais will host next year's Golden Globe award ceremony – the first time they have had a single MC, rather than rolling presenters, since 1995 – is a triumphant...
I have written a blog for magazine site Ctrl Alt Shift, you should have a read of it by popping by For those who dont know about Ctrl.Alt.Shift read the below, it really is ace; Following our launch in June 2008, we embarked on a mission to fight social and global injustice. As well as exposing madness and bringing the world to rights on the website and magazine we took action against countries restricting...
Out of all the remakes, reimaginings and reboots of classic movies these days, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one get you guys as riled up as Stephen Norrington’s proposed "revamping" of THE CROW. but like it or not, the script is allegedly done, and the studio wants to start casting. So we can complain all we want about how this is a travesty against cinema, God...
Release Date: 8 Oct, 2009 | Summary: Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market. The rivalry comes to a head when the BBC announce their Computer Literacy Project, with the stated aim of putting a micro in every school in Britain....
If you have even the slightest passing interest in the story of home computers you can still catch the wonderful Micro Men on I-player - brilliant entertaining stuff and great performances by Alexander Armstrong as Sir Clive Sinclair and Martin Freeman as Chris Curry of Acorn Computers. I confess to being a long time fan of Sir Clive Sinclair and always held his achievements in high esteem .... yes,...
It used to be that you had to go to the video store to get a movie. You can now save a trip to the video store and download movies right off the internet. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site.
At Print, Geeta Dayal (author of the forthcoming 33 1/3 book on Brian Eno's Another Green World) examines the art behind Eno's album covers. The Monthly Review interviews author Eduardo Galeano. JR: Artists and writers tell me that “magical realism”...
Despite being billed as a comedy-drama, the cast mainly plays it straight, save for Alexander Armstrong's strange portrayal of Sir Clive Sinclair as a second-rate Bond villian complete with wig featuring the straightest receding hairline ever known to man. Micro Men captures the mood of nostalgia nicely enough, mixing in archive footage to great effect, but is let down by never really capturing the...
The BBC4 computer season's flagship comedy drama Micro Men was the latest in a long line of biopics of British cultural figures from Tony Hancock to Barbara Cartland that they've produced. Some have been terrible (the Mary Whitehouse one in particular was shameful, patronising it's odious subject matter as if no-one had learned anything from her reign of terror, and Lindsay Duncan's miscasting as Thatcher...
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