I'll keep it brief. Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson), returns for more side-splitting and rib-tickling japes in Mr Bean's Holiday. Well that was the intention anyway, in reality the film is less funny than having your eyes gouged out with a blunt pencil.
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When you see a film trailer, there are generally two things that grab your attention, exciting fast action set-pieces and the music. Music for film trailers have become big business and companies such as X-Ray Dog, and Immediate Music specifically write cues for trailers. Hellboy, Spider-Man 2, Blade Trinity, Van Helsing and Pirates of the Caribbean have all used library music in their trailers. That said, it isn't only 'library' music, for James Horner's soundtrack to Aliens and David Arnold's Stargate score are both frequently used in movie trailers. Read the rest of this entry »
Camino 1.5 has been released, (06/06/07), with a major upgrade. This review was based on the beta that became 1.5, and contains the same features.
A few days ago, my friend Gary was showing me Ubuntu, (an opensource Unix based Operating System). It was quite interesting to see him buggering around at the command line trying to get dragable 'edges' on his windows. Although this did little to intice me to the free OS world, and reminded me why I moved from Windows to Mac- I wanted the benefits of Unix: stable, flexible, and secure, with the ease and beauty of an Apple designed system. Although I could see that Ubuntu is a powerful platform and a perfectly usable operating system, it didn't make me feel instantly "safe" as OS X....
Read the rest of this entry »Every now and then I get sent spam and junk email. I don't really mind, this is the sort of thing you expect these days with email, and the Apple Mail application has a fairly good spam filter which has stopped almost all rubbish appearing in my Inbox.
What really grinds my teeth though, are the people I frequently call my friends, who forward on junk emails to me. I would like to think that I have surrounded myself with a network of friends who are, on the whole, intelligent people. Most of them went to University, and some of them even did degrees that meant something! So when its these allegedly intelligent souls who send me emails because they truly believe it will make their true love kiss them before the day is out, or stop some homicidal maniac with a meat cleaver and a blackberry ending said senders ...
Read the rest of this entry »Few films are actually deserving of the title "Best Film of the Year", only one per year actually. But despite the label being tossed around by every film critic around this time of year, Pan's Labyrinth is far and away worthy of such praise.
Mexican movie making maestro, Guillermo del Toro has written and directed a modern fairy tale which, like the Brother's Grimm stories, is dark, gruesome, and yet magical. The film is in Spanish with subtitles, but please don't let that put you off. Set against the backdrop of fascist northern Spain in 1944, the film is partly the fantasy adventures of a young girl's exploration of a labyrinthine underworld, and part war film where the young girls step father is a sadistic captain of Spain's Civil Guard, stationed in a remote countryside outpost hell-bent on obliterating a small Republican militia....
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