I’ve procrastinated a long time on this one, I admit. I’ve been rather pre-occupied with other things and random thoughts. Some of you, I know, have been waiting patiently; others have been waiting impatiently; and, some couldn’t really care less. The latter will probably find this most appealing because I’m not quite sure how to [...]
Guise Dugal: Kyah! (Drops from the ceiling dressed in black hoodie, pants and black towel wrapped around neck)
Dugal Dugal: Holy cr…
Guise: Hi?
Dugal: Dude, what the hell?! Where’d you come from, and what the hell is up with you voice?
Guise: Ah…you noticed my manly, gravelly growl?
Dugal: It sounds like strep…
Guise: No, I’m…BatRogue! I talk like this [...]
I pulled a Dark All-Knighter last night. What is a Dark All-Knighter? Well, that is where someone spurred on by the pure joy of seeing The Dark Knight before they’ve even watched it, books to have the day following viewing off work and intends not to sleep but to blow an entire night in furious [...]
Rich Hall pointed out on television this one time how, despite his vast wealth, you never really see Bill Gates smile. See, billionaires who are happy and jovial are nearly always publicity hungry and constantly one with the crowd, Bill Gates is a grumpy sod because of a secret. Deep inside he’s had either childhood [...]
There had to be a ‘villain’ post today, I couldn’t just post about Loli and Fast Food. I needed to cover another arch-villain in the UK, and I chose Darth Vader! No, not the British giant David Prowse from down in Devon, but more a Welsh imitator.
There is so much to this story, it’s hard [...]
After reviewing the films available between March and April 2008 at my local cinema, I decided to use the free tickets I won recently to go see the Jack Black comedy Be Kind Rewind. As is usual for me, I went in the off-time while schools and college were still in class, and unsurprisingly at [...]
There’s an old email forward that tells the story of confectionary love, it reads:
Mr Cadbury and Ms Rowntree went off for the weekend.
It was After Eight. She was from Quality Street. He was a Fishermans Friend.
On the way they stopped at a Yorkie Bar. He had a Rum and Butter. She had a Wine Gum. [...]
A little slice of real life now, to make a change from my usual ramblings.
I like free stuff. I’m part of online market research panels for money, I collect loyalty points when I shop and I enter competitions like a mad man. Free stuff, to me, is the most awesome concept in the history of [...]
Before I start, I’d just like to make a confession: Guise Dugal has never watched an episode of Lost.
Well, I put it off but I’m going to do it. I’m going to talk about Cloverfield.
Now, it’s very hard to talk about Cloverfield and not spoil it, I know this first hand as Americans were all [...]
So, what did I do today?
Yeah!
Being born in 1981, I grew up in what I’d consider one of the Golden Ages for children’s toys. As a child there was always a new fad to get in to and a new idea just emerging to take over from that one. Regrettably, there were two things standing in my way from fully [...]
One of the great technologies that was slotted in to the background of Star Wars in the movies and Expanded Universe was the galaxy-wide communications system, the HoloNet. The HoloNet was a merging of internet communication and television, with the added function of being able to transfer holographic images. This is mainly seen for things [...]
One of my favourite tropes in horror and thriller productions - be it in a
film, television show or even video game - is the use of Creepy Little Children.
Granted, this has at times been overdone, especially where companies try to
reproduce the success of a story in either a shoddily made sequel or rival
product, however amongst [...]
Watched a couple of movies tonight, the Tom Cruise remake of The War of the Worlds and the Denzel Washington remake of The Manchurian Candidate.
War of the Worlds, I guess I was kind of biased because I expected it to suck, however, I couldn’t be more wrong as the movie instead sucks and then spits, [...]
Just on the two recent releases I’ve seen, one nay and one yay
Superman Returns
With Bryan Singer directing, I thought it would be of higher quality. Singer said that this film uses the first two films in the Superman film saga and was basically retconning the series from that point on, as opposed to the complete [...]
Yes, I am slightly behind the crowd, but I finally got around to watching Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl. I hadn’t really spared the time to catch it in the cinema, and didn’t have the inclination to buy or rent it on DVD, however, when I saw Heth she mentioned [...]
I’m going to try not to spoil the movie too much but really, if you haven’t read the book, seen either of the movies or guessed the story by the adverts, then really I don’t have much time to spoonfeed you. In fact, if you haven’t read the book get your arse down to Barnes [...]
I re-watched Star Wars : The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones and three issues popped up:
Why is it no-one can ask someone directly a question without the question being forced, an example is “but how is that possible?”, when asked outright it is said naturally and fluidly, when it is preceeded by someones [...]
I’ve never been any good at the Resident Evil games, but loved reading through the in-depth solutions guides in magazines to get the freak out, in fact I basically suck at most games and all I wanted in Resident Evil was to get far enough through to get the story. I’ve read one of the [...]
Yes, I know I’m behind on most everybody else but I finally watched The Incredibles on DVD, liberated from the other brother, and it is a fantastic film that is just too funny. I’ve always been amused by the concept of suing heroes and what they’d do after ‘work’, this film handled it brilliantly. The [...]