I’m tempted to do this sometimes especially when on the phone as it is quite probable that all phone conversations in the UK are being monitored although probably only by a computer.
Author: Matt Wharton
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Review: While She Was Out
Covering similar ground to the British film Eden Lake While She Was Out sees Kim Basinger as a middle class woman that gets into a confrontation with a group of working class kids only for things to spiral out of control and end in violence.
But whereas Eden Lake felt real and thus more horrifying as a result While She Was Out is so ludicrously unbelievable in parts that it breaks the spell. From the choice of making the gang a perfectly ethnically diverse mix of pretty young men to the bizarre seduction scene the film lacks any sense of verisimilitude.
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Neil Gaiman talks about the dark qualities of his books for children
Neil Gaiman interviewed by Henry Jenkins for the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture series at MIT. He talks about his happiness in being placed in the gutter of genre fiction by the literati and about the dark qualities of his children’s fiction.
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"I hunted down the woman who stole my life."
How Karen Lodrick tracked down and caught the woman who’d stolen her identity.
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Bush ‘Not Insulted’ by Thrown Shoes
President George W. Bush spoke with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz Sunday following an incident in which an Iraqi reporter threw two shoes at the president.
Bush told Raddatz he wasn’t insulted by the shoe-throwing, and that stranger things have happened to him.
Is it still an insult if the person being insulted doesn’t consider it to be an insult?
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Andy Burnham: Extending copyright is the moral thing to do
UK ignores logic, backs 20-year music copyright extension
Ignoring the findings of the Government funded Gowers Report which concluded that copyright extension would yield little benefit Culture Minister Andy Burnham wishes to press ahead with extending copyright for musical recordings by 20 years arguing that there is a moral case.
Only having 50 years to exploit their copyright will leave artists destitute in their twilight years apparently even though evidence suggests that the hypothetical musician that is still popular enough to still be selling records over five decades after they’ve been released but not popular enough that they’ve not made a ton of money over those 50 years doesn’t exist.
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Review: Dean Spanley
A film with a very curious premise that is made sublime by the performances of Peter O’Toole and Sam Neill. Also the performances of Jeremy Northam and Bryan Brown are extremely good too.
I was expecting it to be just a bit of fluff but it is in fact a very moving and uplifting tale of how people deal with grief and embrace life.
