Posted by: minifigpootles on: 9 September, 2008
J.K. Rowling has won her case against Steven Vander Ark, the writer of The Harry Potter Lexicon. I was a big fan of the website, and used it quite a lot to get some of the subtler connections in the books when I was reading them. I’m a fan of Harry Potter, you see. I [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 27 March, 2008
Beirut are one of the best bands around. Fact. Zach Condon, who is bile-inducingly young, has the best voice in modern music. Fact. And, to add wonderful insult to beautiful injury they go and make the best videos too. If I was a professional musician I would shoot myself now.
Luckily for everyone, though, I’m not, [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 17 March, 2008
I know this is a film about Russian gangsters, and I know, therefore, that this films wasn’t likely be High School Musical 3 (although a Russia-based part of the series where all the cast get brutally slaughtered would be more entertaining). That said, there’s a lot of blood in the first few minutes of Eastern [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 9 March, 2008
I watched both of these films this week, and, intending to review both of them, it seemed to make sense to form them into one, since they are a perfect contrast.
Downfall is a film based in Hitler’s bunker in the final days of World War II days before Hitler’s suicide and the surrender of Germany. [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 27 February, 2008
It’s a rare moment on Screenwipe that Charlie Brooker starts eulogising a show. However, with The Wire it’s more than deserved. I’m gradually working my way towards the end of series two as we speak, and I have three sitting on the side ready to go.
TV in the UK is so utterly terrible that it [...]
