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My Rating: About my rating system Inceptionset a new benchmark for sci-fi movies. This was genuinely a new idea expertly executed by a great director - Christopher Nolan. So when I saw the trailer for In TimeI was hoping that this would be the next in a new era of interesting films based on an … read more

My Rating: About my rating system I’ll preface this by saying this is the first film I have seen from the controversial Danish film maker Lars von Trier. I’m aware of his work and had an idea what to expect. I’ve got Antichristqueued up to watch but haven’t dared to sit through it yet. … read more

My Rating: About my rating system Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is an expert in his trade. We learn throughout the film how good he is and how well regarded he is by his peers. When he goes to the trade shows he doesn’t need to fall for the patter of the sales guys - he makes all his own equipment, … read more

My Rating: About my rating system I’ve had the second Transformers movie for quite a while but it has been fairly low down on my to-watch list. With the third movie in the franchise now out I thought I’d give it a go to see if it’s as bad as the reviews suggest. It is. The first Transformers movie … read more

2010 was such a great year. I was lucky enough to travel the world to many places I’ve never visited before, and the year culminated in our fantastic wedding; a perfect day made even better by the visit of family and friends we haven’t seen since we emigrated. So maybe it shouldn’t be such a … read more

My Rating: About my rating system Contagion is about the terrifying prospect of a pandemic deadly disease outbreak, with an impact similar in scale to the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed at least 3% of the global population. There’s some fine performances from a stellar cast, including Matt Damon, … read more

My Rating: About my rating system I knew very little about Remember Me before watching it so the end came as a complete shock, despite the fact that in retrospect I can see there were clear clues to the final event throughout the film. Sometimes I'm attuned to these things, not this time. Robert … read more

My Rating: About my rating system The Company Men attempts to portray the human impact of corporate downsizing as a result of the global financial crisis. You may think this is going to be something akin to the The Pursuit of Happyness, where an average joe has some bad luck and ends up losing … read more

My Rating: About my rating system Another Earth is one of those slow-paced, arty, independent films, that looks like it’s been developed specifically for a film festival. The story has two main threads. Rhoda Williams is a high school student who has just been accepted to MIT. She has a promising … read more

My Rating: About my rating system Barney’s Version tell the story of Barney Panofsky, a balding, overweight American Jew who drinks too much, smokes too much, and yet manages to find beautiful women who agree to marry him. The movie plays out largely in flashback. We first learn that Barney has a … read more

My Rating:  About my rating system   Judi Dench and Cate Blanchet both received Oscar nominations for Notes on a Scandal - a psychological drama with themes such as loneliness, vulnerability and manipulation. Judi Dench plays Barbara Covett, a battle-axe teacher nearing retirement in a London … read more

I’ve decided to start writing some short movie reviews on here. I’ve got quite a large DVD collection, most of of which I’ve now copied on to my Apple TV set-up. In my geekness, I’ve got movies stored on a couple of external hard disks connected to my wireless router so that I can stream them … read more

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I don't understand why the UK Ministry of Defence has been making a big deal about 1) flying a 3000 mile round trip to bomb Libyan targets, and 2) aborting the mission when they got there due to finding civilians in the target area. How does it make sense to fly these missions out of Norfolk? If the … read more

The British Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has ruled that journalists are within their rights to quote tweets from Twitter because they are not private. The case centres around Department of Transport employee Sarah Bakersville's tweets that were quoted in two national newspapers without her … read more

The incredible growth of the Apple iTunes app store means there's a fantastic opportunity for anyone with a good idea to make a decent profit. It doesn't have to be confined to iPhone or iPad apps either. A good idea could lead to separate native apps for android, mac, windows, blackberry and all … read more

A number of Lonely Planet travel apps for iPhone are currently available free. These are for cities in the US and Canada including New York, LA, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and Seattle. Get them while you can as the offer runs out Friday 4th Feb (today). They did the same thing just before Christmas when … read more

It has been devastating watching the catastrophe unfold in the city that I've grown to love. I've said before that this is the first place where I've truly felt settled. It's the city we chose to live in when deciding to emigrate, and we've never once regretted it. Many parts of Brisbane are now a … read more

A few years ago on BBC2 in the UK there was a programme called Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment. I don't know if you watched it but the concept behind the series was that Dave would follow exactly what was recommended for his star sign in a selection of horoscopes, and then see how that … read more