David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 11 November, 2009 at 6:33 pm. It's been filed in the documentary + movies category . {Comment}
I went to Sheffield Doc/Fest last week. It’s a film festival especially for documentaries and I saw a number of rocking films. My special pick was Junior, which is about the most gripping character-based doc I’ve ever seen, thanks to the uniqueness of the central characters Eddie Belasco (75) and his “Ma” (98), who have [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 01 January, 2009 at 4:39 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + books + food + movies + music + personal + television category . {5 Comments}
As I’ve nothing better to do and 2008 has now definitely finished, I thought I’d provide you with my list of my favourite things from the year just gone. Happy New Year, by the way.
Film
I thought Wall-E was surprisingly deep for a kids film and was also technically flawless. But There Will Be Blood blew [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 23 August, 2008 at 4:53 pm. It's been filed in the movies category . {1 Comment}
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while but haven’t got round to it. Last week I stayed in Edinburgh overnight and was able to catch a couple of Fringe shows with a local Haggis-eating Irn Bru enthusiast by the name of Adrian. Really.
Firstly we saw Justin Moorhouse’s show, Justin Moorhouse’s Ever Decreasing [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 30 July, 2008 at 11:19 pm. It's been filed in the movies category . {Comment}
I went to watch The Dark Knight at the IMAX in Manchester this week and it was bloody amazing.
There was a bit towards the end, though – involving two boats – where I knew what was going to happen in advance because they gave it away on Newsnight Review last Friday. I watch this programme [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 28 May, 2008 at 10:11 pm. It's been filed in the celebrities + movies + politics + pr category . {Comment}
Here’s Sharon Stone spouting forth on the Chinese earthquake. Sharon, you see, is a friend o’ Lama and believes in, like, karma and shit.
I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else… I don’t like that. I’ve been concerned about, oh, [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 26 April, 2008 at 9:24 pm. It's been filed in the design + marketing + movies + radio category . {Comment}
Can there be anything more depressing than the new British film Three and Out? I haven’t seen it, of course, because it’s shit. How do I know it’s shit if I haven’t seen it, you ask. Well, just look at the poster (I reply) – in fact, just look at the font used on the [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 07 April, 2008 at 1:45 pm. It's been filed in the celebrities + journalism + movies + television category . {Comment}
Nicolas Cage is not a dog thief and anyone who accuses him of being a dog thief shall be sued. Unfortunately, Kathleen Turner didn’t realise this. Nor did the Daily Mail, which reproduced extracts from her autobiography in which she falsely labelled Cage as a drunk driver and - uh oh - claimed he stole a dog. Consequently, they have [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 31 March, 2008 at 5:27 pm. It's been filed in the celebrities + movies category . {3 Comments}
I went out on Saturday night. I know. It was a revelatory experience. I went to the cinema (rather than on an acid garage-soundtracked Prodigy video-inspired junk binge) to see a creepy Spanish film called El Orfanato, or The Orphanage.
I was taken aback by three trailers that preceded the film, all of which were for [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 31 January, 2008 at 6:23 pm. It's been filed in the blogging + celebrities + movies + television + web category . {2 Comments}
As you will no doubt have noticed, this site looks a bit different today. I’ve got me a new super-minimalist theme called Stripped by Upstart Blogger. I’m a fan of minimal, functional design and, since the emphasis round these parts is on words, this theme is perfect because all the other distracting stuff is dumped [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 04 January, 2008 at 3:16 pm. It's been filed in the movies category . {1 Comment}
Has any one else, like me, suffered psychological injury as a result of the trailer for the film version of hen night-friendly Abba-based musical shit-fest Mamma Mia!? There’s no warning before it comes on. This is despite the inclusion of a mysteriously orange Meryl Streep running round in dungarees and bursting into song; at which point I suffered a sudden ache behind my eyes and everything went [...]