March 26, 2009

Review – Knowing (15)

Starring: Nicolas Cage
Directed by: Alex Proyas

Imagine you’re given fore warning of global disasters only to discover that you not only know they’re coming but that you play a vital part in the grand plan of fate. Knowing is the story of John Koestler, a teacher at MIT (They all work at MIT) and single parent following the death of his wife in a hotel fire a year earlier. Johns son, Caleb receives an envelope from the school’s 50 year old time capsule containing a list of seemingly random numbers. It isn’t long, though, before Mr. MIT works out a system in the numbers. They are dates and death tolls of every major global disaster for the last 50 years, in perfect sequence.

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March 12, 2009

New iPod Shuffle – The ridiculousest iPod ever.

I like Apple. Well, let me clarify; I appreciate what apple do. They provide beautiful, well made products that, on the most part, perform at levels well above the most popular competitors. But there are two things that the company does that really grind my gears. One is the fact that they charge absolutely insane amounts for a lot of their products, (You can spec up a MacPro for over £16,000 that won’t be as fast as an £8000 PC) and the other is when they pull the kind of shit they have with the new iPod Shuffle.

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March 7, 2009

Review – Watchmen (18)

Directed by: Zack Snyder,
Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson

The year is 1985. President Richard Nixon is in his 5th consecutive term in office. America has triumphed in Vietnam and currently stands minutes away from nuclear war with the USSR. Masked vigilantes have been outlawed but one of the original ‘masks’, Rorschach remains active. When former vigilante The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is murdered Rorschach must leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of a sinister plot, the magnitude of which defies belief. This is Watchmen.

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