About 6 months a go I suddenly decided to take up the guitar it’s something I thought about when I was a teenager but not since. I’m now approaching 43 (I know it might be a mid life crisis thing).
Sometimes it can be a real pain, not just physically in the finger muscles and tips as they get use to doing new things, but also from not being able to progress quick enough to Read the rest of this entry »
Never really got on with rhythm games before, always found them supremely irritating, too quick for me. So when a friend suggested I might like Guitar Hero I wasn’t sure, then I read a interview somewhere about the team behind it, and my interest grew.
Another brilliant looking film from Tim Burton, which reminded me of The Corpse Bride. The visual style is only as Burton can do, quality and an atmosphere of undiluted creepiness is in every frame. The colours are kept quite monotone to better contrast with the sticky red stuff, Read the rest of this entry »
Based on the best-selling novel by James Siegel (No wonder this film is so well written and scripted). It’s a real edge of your seat thriller, very much like Hitchcocks films in the past, it builds the tension throughout with some terrific plot twists, some obvious and some not so.
This film is rather like a half hour comedy sketch that’s been stretched too far. It has elements of Only When I laugh and Benny Hill. It has obviously been shot on a tight budget and they have done their best the script and the story is OK if not quite clever. Read the rest of this entry »
