Accepted Prejudices

October 15, 2011

As I haven’t been uploading many new articles of my own lately (for various reasons, the main one being simply that I’ve been incredibly busy/tired of late), here’s a good one that I read back in March 2007 by an MSN journalist called Laura Simpson.  It’s quite funny, and also pathetically rather true. Gingerism to [...]

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Film Review – The Three Musketeers (2011)

October 12, 2011

The Three Musketeers (PG13) Out October 12. Paul W.S. Anderson briefly left Resident Evil territory to film his take on Alexandre Dumas’s classic tale, making it mostly action (for a 3D audience) and adding a little steampunk fantasy. The adaptation stays fairly true to the book, but like most other films the story is changed [...]

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Source Code film review

September 6, 2011

Source Code (12A) This intriguing sci-fi thriller stars Jake Gyllenhall (Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain) as Captain Colter Stevens, a soldier who wakes up in the body of another man on a train that is about to blow up. Joined by the man’s unsuspecting work colleague Christina (Michelle Monaghan), he learns that he has 8 minutes [...]

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Unknown film review

September 6, 2011

  Film Review: Unknown (12A) Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Batman Begins) heads back into recently successful action drama territory as Dr. Martin Harris, a man whose identity appears to have been taken over by another man. Dr. Harris is involved in a car crash heading back to an airport to pick up a forgotten suitcase.   [...]

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Limitless film review

September 6, 2011

Limitless (15) Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The A Team) stars as Eddie Morra, a scruffy writer whose life is instantly changed by a strange drug in this sci-fi thriller loosely based on the book ‘The Dark Fields’. Morra’s life is going nowhere as he struggles to meet deadlines for a book and is dumped by [...]

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Water for Elephants film review

September 6, 2011

Water for Elephants (12A) Directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the novel by Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants is a historical drama starring Robert ‘Twilight’ Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, a student vet who ends up with a travelling circus after a family tragedy. Set in the American Depression, Jacob heads off to a different [...]

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Football – Should Wenger stay or should he go?

September 5, 2011

Why Wenger should stay He is one of Arsenal’s most successful managers of all time.  Under his reign he has won the double with Arsenal and created the ‘Untouchables’ of 2004, with Arsenal going through an entire season undefeated.  3 Premier Leagues, 4 FA Cups and the club’s first Champions League final.  This is a [...]

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Job hunting..

August 30, 2011

..soul destroying fun for all ages.  But hey, you get to work for 40-50 years of your life, then if you’re lucky you get a decade or so of peaceful retirement (and a few appointments with the Orthopaedics ward), then you get to lie down for a bit.  (Just kidding, life can be beautiful.) Here [...]

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Football: The best things in life are free?

August 28, 2011

In yet another season of crazy transfer fees that could feed entire countries, and a certain Samuel Eto’o earning somewhere between £170,000 – £300,000 a week in Russia, what happened to all of those free transfers over the summer?  There were several notable names, including quite a few that were England internationals only a couple [...]

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Life 2.0 coming soon

August 25, 2011

This site has not been as updated as frequently as I would like recently but this is for several reasons, which ironically make up a blog posting of sorts. One, I am still busy looking for work.  It has been over 3 months now and I estimate I have made around 300 applications in at [...]

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