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Posted in Commentary, X-Realms •
It’s 2012, The Queen has been killed and Hong Kong Kung Fu Supercop ‘Terry Phoo’ is seconded to London under American Police Chief Benjamin Benson to track down the killers. Of course this being future London it is one in the grip of a mutant criminal gang going by the name of ‘The Freebies’ whos leader is little more than a massive row of teeth in a basketball head who’s henchmen sport an array of Mexican Wrestler masks.
I hope you can forgive the use of a cliche but our hero is ‘hapless’ in almost every sense of the word. As he tears around the city in his awesome Stratos HF car failing to both find the killers and protect the Royal Princes he inadvertently teams up with Whitey Action, Police Chief Bensons disaffected teenage daughter who takes a shine to the ‘Buddhas Loin Cloth’ - a magical pair of hotpants that grant the wearer whatever they desire.
Posted in Commentary, Television •
The 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha chronicled a director’s failed attempt to bring to the screen the tale of Don Quixote. The film adaptation of the early Spanish novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra had long been a passion project for Terry Gilliam. Having long been influenced by the book, and having explored it’s themes in his other fantastical works, the ex-Python had invested a huge amount in the planned movie version.
Posted in Commentary, Movies •
Why HD?
With the increasing size and affordability of big screen televisions, it’s become pretty obvious that standard definition formats just don’t cut the visual mustard on these new AV behemoths invading our living rooms. What looked perfectly acceptable on your old 28” CRT set can look awful when the limitations of SDTV (Standard Definition TV) are amplified by a monster flat panel.
Posted in Blu-ray & HD DVD, Commentary, Sci-Tech & Video Games •
According to the facebook movie comparison thingy, my fellow staff writer Tai and I are ’soulmates’ when it comes to film taste. Perhaps it’s fitting then that I should agree with him and award Beowulf ‘the film’ with a score of four stars out of five. It’s a very good, but not a great picture. I humbly suggest that if you would like to read a professional and nicely written appraisal of the story, performances and direction you go and check out his review.
You see, what follows here is not a review of Beowulf the movie, rather an appraisal of Beowulf the 3D experience, and an opportunity to ask if this version of the film really does represent the front guard of an exciting new era in cinema or is merely a novelty movie that is destined to sit alongside House of Wax and Cat-Women of the Moon in the curios section of the Hollywood Hall of Fame.
Posted in Commentary, Movies •
Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski’s racing film has amazement aplenty for eyes and ears. But the pure exhilaration is impeded by cartoon morality.
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 
- jangofett101
