I really enjoyed seeing Idina Menzel with the Minnesota Orchestra last Friday. The veteran Broadway star is known for roles in RENT, Chess and Wicked as well the zany musical comedy Glee: I got the script to join the show and there I am reading it on page 34 and it says, well, first of [...]
I love when you find something you love and that leads you to discover more of the same — I love Adam Pascal’s solo stuff because I really got into RENT. Similarly, I really enjoyed Scott Pilgrim when it came out it the cinema and the DVD from Amazon arrived this week (free 2 day [...]
I submitted an interview request to Mark Zuckerberg, hopefully that goes somewhere… The Social Network. Let’s be frank, we all had our doubts about the entertainment value of a movie detailing the early days of a website. As it happens though, with juicy lawsuits and a killer script, you can make a phenomenal flick. Some [...]
Socially-hopeless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) must fight 7 evil exes, video-game-boss style, to win the heart of his crush in this hugely entertaining new flick. Let’s face it, Edgar Wright had huge directorial boots to fill when he shot Scott Pilgrim, as he previously brought us the wonderfully silly but nonetheless fantastic Hot Fuzz. He [...]
Review of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World coming soon. Watch this space!
Quick review of a book I recently read: “I was so in love, I went into my room and drank half a bottle of Robitussin.” Under the Wolf, Under the Dog is a young adult novel written by Adam Rapp. Released in 2004, the novel is in diary form, written by Steve Nugent, as he [...]
Last weekend, I went to Wexford to see some friends. It’s not somewhere I go very often but it’s a lovely place when the weather’s right (isn’t everywhere?) and I thoroughly enjoyed my short time there. I was there to see Orla and Áine, and while we were all together we decided to see County [...]
Thanks to the swine flu, I didn’t leave the house all week, starting Sunday evening. By Saturday though, cabin fever was threatening to raise my actual temperature back into the danger zone. I decided that the cinema would be an excellent escape, and loaded up the local cinema’s ‘Now Showing’ website to see what was [...]
Bolt, which, as well as being one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen, comes with probably the best movie soundtrack of any film, animated or otherwise, I’ve ever had the pleasure to indulge in. Photo owned by moonhouse (cc) Bolt is a dog who believes himself to be a superhero. In reality, he’s [...]
At the risk of encroaching on Charles’ territory, I’d like to review a film I watched last night. I watched About A Boy, a 2002 film based on a book by Nick Hornby (I intend to track down the book) starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult as a 38 year old carefree bachelor and an [...]