It’s hard to get my head around the world now. These days the internet has taken over: with blogs taking over diaries, Twitter taking over stalking, and Facebook taking over life. What has the world come to? Or is everything going to be like this from now on? I sit here, and think, does anyone [...]
Category: Culture
Killing Bono
A film about killing Bono from U2? Really? Well, almost. Killing Bono is roughly based from Neil McCormick’s memoir Killing Bono: I was Bono’s Doppelganger, Neil McCormick being the lead singer of a band that started at the same time as U2. The film follows the McCormick brothers’ attempts to make it in the music [...]
Date Night
Tina Fey and Steve Carell together in a movie – what more could you possibly want? With a wonderful cast, Date Night is probably the funniest film I have seen in a long while. Fey and Carell play the Fosters, who live a pretty mundane suburban life. After finding that their friends are splitting up, [...]
Beauty and the Beast
Everybody loves a good old Disney film, right? I never grew up watching Disney films – shock, horror. But I watched Beauty and the Beast the other day, the 1991 version. It was ok. Nah, it was good. What can I say? I have no love for Disney films, having not grown up watching them, [...]
Norwegian Wood
So I went to London this weekend, looking forward to Tran Anh Hung’s film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s amazing novel Norwegian Wood; yes, taken from the title of a Beatles’ song. And what can I say? It was all right, a pretty faithful adaptation, and brought up some scenes I had totally forgotten. But there [...]
Endless May Dreams 