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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: No Country For Old Men: 1 of 39
The Coen brothers dramatically returned to form with their best serious work since Fargo, and were rewarded with the Academy Award for Best Picture. This one can proudly sit on the shelf with O Brother Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink, after some unexpected misfires earlier this decade.Where... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown: 2 of 23
Let's get this out the way: The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown, deserves its phenomenal popular success - by virtue of possessing the most thrillingly entertaining and well constructed plot you were likely to find in a published book of this type during the last decade.It has largely been maligned by po-faced critics with a breat... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey: 1 of 10
It seems likely James Frey will forever be remembered for the contrived literary scandal of 2006. His former champion, Oprah Winfrey, raked him over the coals on national television after it was exposed by an internet gossip site that he had fictionalised portions of his best selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, hitherto ... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Neon Bible, by The Arcade Fire: 1 of 7
On Antichrist Television Blues, Win Butler's plaintive hallow voice perfectly impersonates the blue collar longing of the working heroes of Bruce Springsteen's America in the post-Vietnam seventies, as evoked on such seminal records as Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River. But thirty years has eroded the once resonant w... More..
Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Website reviews: Slicethepie.com: 1 of 7
Slice The Pie seeks to monetise the popular activity of posting messages on bands' social network pages (think MySpace) by effectively turning it into a paid review activity, somewhat akin to market research, using its own platform.Each month they encourage unsigned musical acts to register for a "scout room". Members can the... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Stranger Than Fiction: 4 of 26
Stranger than Fiction is an imaginative romantic comedy with decent chemistry between the two leads - the always reliable Will Ferrell, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, playing against type.Harold Crick is an IRS auditor whose solitary life is governed by his own predictable routines. Things start to change however when he begins to he... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 2 of 9
The movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wears its love of hard boiled detective schlock on its sleeve, poking fun at the lumpen vernacular of the hack imitators of the genre's twin giant totems, Chandler and Hammett, and occupying the territory of neo-noir spoof instead of the more serious terrain of LA Confidential or Chinatown, keepi... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Blackout, by Britney Spears: 2 of 8
In 2007 Jive Records released "Blackout", the fifth studio album from Britney Spears and her first original material for nearly four years.To just listen to the record it would be easy to declare it a return to form. Vocally, what some take as over-serious, others see as self-deprecating, and although the voice is thin it sou... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan: 2 of 7
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.The Wrath of Khan is the only Star Trek film that stands in its own right as a great piece of work outside the context of the series - I'll allow an honourable mention for The Voyage Home - and it appears to take its cues from King Lear and Moby Dick rather than science fiction. For once the in... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Zodiac: 9 of 30
ZodiacFor a long time David Fincher was said to be attached to the highly anticipated movie adaptation of James Ellroy's novel The Black Dahlia. That property eventually passed into the hands of Brian DePalma with decidedly mixed results.But Fincher did deliver his period study of a real life murder investigation - he just to... More..