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Heading into the cinema to see The End Of Oak Street I knew very little about it beyond what the poster showed me, that being it featured Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway and in some way featured dinosaurs, along with it being a sci-fin thriller of some kind. As it began with a slightly too... Continue Reading →
Over the last half decade or so Perchard’s Wall have carved out a niche for themselves on the Channel Islands music scene with shows all over their home island of Jersey along with appearances at the like of the Vale Earth Fair, The Yacht and The Pit in Guernsey (and some even further afield) and... Continue Reading →
Over the years Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have collaborated a number of times and their particular brands of video store brat filmmaking have gelled with mixed but generally enjoyable results, but it’s hard to argue that their most completely successful offering was their first, 1996’s From Dusk Til Dawn. With both men at the... Continue Reading →
When it comes to superhero origin stories it feels like there are two that, whether you’re a fan of comic books or their spin off movies or not, have entered the popular lexicon; there is Spider-Man’s radioactive spider and ‘with great power comes great responsibility’, and there is Batman’s with the gunning down of Thomas... Continue Reading →
There’s no denying that, despite largely being glorified toy commercials, a number of kids cartoons from the 1980s have firmly established themselves in the pop culture canon to the point where the last 15 years or so have seen a range of them make their way onto the big screen, and now it’s come somewhat... Continue Reading →
Having only previously seen jazz quartet Duck on one previous occasion, when they opened for Jackson Mathod at St James back in February I was very much interested to see them on ‘home turf’, so to speak, in the pub that gave them their name where they having been holding monthly sessions for the last... Continue Reading →
I must admit that following the mass catharsis of the dimension hopping binge that was Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the development of the ‘Spider-verse’ movies, I wasn’t sure where the story of Tom Holland’s version of the web slinger could really go but, following some (it turned out) thankfully minor spoilers from the trailer... Continue Reading →
For the second stop on our Ireland trip we headed for the city of Galway on the country’s west coast and while planning realised that our route would take us through County Clare and near to a few notable locations. Given that we had the whole day assigned for travel meant that we could take... Continue Reading →
Coming hot on the heels of season two of Daredevil: Born Again another of the previously Netflix based Marvel characters has made it to Disney+ in his own right (following an appearance in the aforementioned Hell’s Kitchen based superhero’s first season) in the form of the Marvel Television ‘Special Presentation’, The Punisher: One Last Kill.... Continue Reading →
A part of the reason that the very name of Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish play’, Macbeth, is said to be unlucky is because it is often only uttered when a theatre is having problems and requires a guaranteed money spinner, this is something that has led to something of a perception that it is one of the... Continue Reading →
