Opinion: The Kindle, and other e-readers didn’t kill Borders, Independent Book stores can still survive in a ‘digital world’, and why the e-book debate, is focusing on the wrong issues.

This news right here ↑ has caused the hipsters of the internet to vent their collective rage. The reaction to the news also served to form the ‘inspiration’ for the following wall of text:

Opinion: The Kindle, and other e-readers didn’t kill Borders, Independent Book stores can still survive in a ‘digital world’, and why the e-book debate, is focusing on the wrong issues…

I’m back…

Wow. It’s been around 18 months since I’ve posted anything here on WordPress. The reason? Tumblr. I’m considerably more actitve over on Tumblr, as my stream should confirm. So why the sudden re-interest in this old wordpress account?

Welll basically, I thought it might be nice to have some of my articles / reviews / rants backed up to a different location, should anything happen to my tumblr account.

So hopefully, over the course of the next few months, you can look forward to various articles on a whole cacophony of different subjects.

Movie Review: God on Trial (2008)

Movie Review: God on Trial (2008)

Directed by Andy DeEmmony | Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce

When I first read about the film over on Chris Woos’ tumblr feed, it struck me as a really interesting idea for a film. I had no idea that it’s based on actual events. The film isn’t available over here in the United Kingdom, for some silly reason, so I had to hit the internets to check it out.

Because of how the film starts, I initially thought I was watching the wrong film – however it quickly “gets going” when we jump back to the actual events.

The modern day stuff doesn’t work – if anything, most of it actually, imo, undermines the horror that was, and for that matter still is, the concentration camps. I’m not superstitious by any means, but having visited Auschwitz all I can say, is that I’m pretty sure you could take anyone there, and even if they didn’t know what happened, they’d understand there’s something “wrong” with the place – it’s almost as if the horror of what actually happened there changed the place, so that even in say 10,000 years time, when all that’s there is the land, it’ll still feel “wrong” – if any of that makes sense.

Which is why even though I didn’t like most of the “modern day” part of the film, with the tour guide, and the woman asking questions that a 10 year old could answer, but I did like the part where the tourists are in the gas chambers, and you see the prisoners amongst them. Well, not so much like it, but I thought it was a powerful image.

As for the actual main part of the film, the actual “Trial” of God – I still think the intial concept is more powerful than the actual trial that takes place in the film – as Fushna said, it kinda gets bogged down in the religious theology that the prisoners use to argue their various positions.

Having said that, I did enjoy the film – Not enough to getting the R1 DVD, but enough to recommend it to people should it be repeated over here on BBC 2.

Movie Review: (500) Days of Summer

(500) Days of Summer (September 7th, Odeon, Broad Street, Birmingham), is the first feature film from prolific music video director Marc Webb (Seriously – check out the guys videopgraphy over on Wikipedia – the guy wasn’t short of work ). It had been on my “hotly anticipated” list, pretty much since I first watched the trailer, due in no small part to the two main stars – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Zooey Deschanel. The story, which is presented in the form of a non-linear narrative, revolves around Gordon-Levitts’ “failed” architect Tom Hansen, and Zooey Deschanels’ Summer Fin, the PA to Hansens’ boss, who almost immediately perks Toms interest. The film follows the 500 Days between their first encounter, on January 8th, taking in various significant points in their relationship, through to the films’ conclusion, on May 23rd the following year…

Movie Review: Blade Runner – The Final Cut (2007)

Blade Runner – The Final Cut, 2007, Directed by Ridley Scott.

Contains Spoilers - For all versions of the film, and the Philip K. Dick novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”

Book Review: Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol (2009)

Word Cloud generated from my review of Dan Browns' The Lost Symbol.

Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol. Released September 15th, 2009.

Spoiler Free.

Movie Review: The Thing (1982)

The Thing, 1982, Directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, based on characters created by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Staring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David.

Contains Spoilers.

Movie Review: District 9 (2009)

District 9, 2009, Written by Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, Directed by: Neill Blomkamp.
Contains Spoilers

Movie Review: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2009. Written & Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Contains Spoilers…

Movie Review: Inglorious Basterds (2009)

Inglorious Basterds, 2009 – Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Contains Spoilers…