DiCaprio, Crowe and Ridley Scott. Three men who’s work will always be worth seeking out. DiCaprio and Crowe are as excellent as usual and are well supported by an international cast and the film deals with hot political and personal issues in the Middle East, both clearly and sensitively. So why doesn’t it quite work?
Every now and then it seems Ridley Scott makes a film that despite its interesting premise, performances and technical brilliance, never connects with the viewer. This is one of those movies. This wanted to be a ‘Constant Gardener’ or even DiCaprio’s recent ‘Blood Diamond’, but somehow there’s a cold sheen between the viewer and the film, meaning it doesn’t achieve the heights it should. Still worth seeing.
I’ve had a copy of Silverback sat on my hard disk for a while, but given I’m concentrating on my own project and a few very small design jobs for local companies with limited budgets, I haven’t really had cause to use it.
However, recently I needed to show a client how to use the administration...
For a couple of local restaurants, with great food (as you’d expect in Singapore!)
A promising opening (seen virtually entirely in the trailer) never resolves into a coherent big reveal and you are left with a nuts and bolt thriller and a tiny, slightly disappointed, voice in your head saying… “Seriously, a evil computer movie?”
The performances are watchable, elevating the movie from pure tripe to watchable – Billy Bob Thornton is good enough on screen that he’s not thinking only of his paycheque. The action is functional without being amazing but I left wondering why so much money had been spent on such a load of old eighties nonsense.
I really enjoyed the ambition and confidence of this second dose of Del Toro’s Hellboy. It takes a little while to get into, as the world is so complete and mesmerising the first twenty minutes are quite disorienting.
The performance of Ron Perlman under epic red prosthetics is the heart of the movie, and the very human story of it’s non-human heroes never gets lost in the epic scope and fantastical creatures that inhabit the movie. Small note should be made of the tooth fairy attack early in the film: utterly creepy in the best possible way, reminding me of the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Repeat Mantra. Deploy it. Fix a bit. Deploy it. Don’t get stuck not launching while striving for perfection.
Given the recent Hard Disk fatality and the generally disheveled state of my well-travelled (and much abused) early 2007 MacBook, at some point in the next year I’ll be in the market for a new machine.
Before this little workhorse I was known (by my wife at least) as a serial purchaser and...
I laughed quite hard in this. Ben Stiller reprises his driven bonehead shtick, this time as the lead actor dropped into a real war-zone by mistake during the filming of an Apocalypse Now style epic. The jokes come thick, fast and close to the line of decency (as good comedy should), mocking both the Hollywood machine and his own profession; backed up with some startling cameos.
The jokes that don’t hit are quickly followed by gags that do and you’re never too far from a proper belly laugh, mostly supplied by Robert Downey Jr. He takes a role that could have been massively offensive (you don’t see actors in blackface much anymore) but succeeds in lampooning the actor’s tendancy to pomposity with some acute observations amongst the other silliness.
Having had a disaster with my MacBook, I’ve spent the best part of a day getting my work environment how I want it. Here’s the Rails-y bit!
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem update rails
Err. Latest Rails.
You need XCode to get all the ‘compile-y’ goodness that Mac OS X...
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