If you’re in the mood for more reviews of Batman, this is a very long piece on the Dark Knight Rises (found via the previous reviews by Aaron Swartz). I found the film unsatisfactory for what I thought were a number of reasons but I’m coming around to the idea that these are really facets [...]
Sadly, Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Friday. There are a lot of nice things being written about him but I’d like to remember him with some of his writing. Between July and November of last year, Swartz wrote three insightful essays on each of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. He began with the Dark Knight Returns, [...]
I think on the wanker scale this post might be off the charts, but as a self-confessed wanker that makes it right up my alley.
Great piece by Mark Kermode (he of BBC5 fame) from his new book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex. I don’t want to spoil the whole article, it so I’ll just excerpt the beginning: Here are three absolute truths: The world is round. We are all going to die. No one enjoyed Pirates of [...]
So I like Twitter. It’s a source of links, small nuggets of wisdom and also a place where you can vent to the world about whatever’s got your goat without needing to write it up all good and proper so it won’t look out of place on your otherwise tidy blog. (I expend literally hours [...]
I realise I’m a little late on this one but Christmas isn’t quite here yet and there’s a chance I might still save some of you out there from making a poor purchasing decision based on a review score. I don’t believe this is the most startling insight of all time but as someone who [...]