Missed last night's Watchdog on the YLOD, guess I'll watch it on the embedded iplayer on my XMB. Needless to say Sony aint best pleased and it's started a fanboy flamewar across the webby forums It's a shame they employed Iain Lee though, he's a massive tit and is rather fond of slurping Microsoft coqs.
Hopefully the Beeb and Sony won't be at war for too long - they've plenty of reasons to be cheerful
Got Trine last night and will be picking up Katamari Forever this weekend - I really need to keep pushing through lovely Rapture as Fallout DLC has finally got a release date too.
A sweet pic via Wired, showing the effects of Ganymede's magnetic field on Jupiter.
Shame it looks like we won't be dropping in on Mars anytime soon, apparently there's a little problem with cosmic radiation, boo.
The Planck observatory has returned it's first images, via BBC
NASA's future maybe still in doubt but it doesn't look like the Chinese have lost their appetite.
And on the subject of outer space, Defying Gravity gets cancelled (or is it ?) and Warehouse 13 gets a new seaon? WTF? Warehouse 13 is bland, cheesy tripe that thinks it's funny and though Defying G. is a bit soapy for my tastes it was a near future, semi-realistic drama that had Ron Livingston in it and a much better show overall. Hohum
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, a superb slice of sepia surrealism from Stanshall (Vivian) was most entertaining. I think it's fair to say this film isn't for everyone, it's obviously in a particular British trendtypevein of comedy, maybe Goons-Python-Boosh or something, so I'd avoid if those don't take your fancy. Otherwise you've got a strange snapshot of Sir Henry, played by Trevor Howard, and the upper class twits who surround him, plenty of decidely un-pc jokes, lots of drinking and so many brilliant lines I'll have to watch it again.
Colbert knocks some lumps off our Corporate Masters in a sweet The Word segment from yesterday.
It appears that out Atlantic cousins aren't too keen on Darwin, I think I've stopped laughing now. Fair enough the movie might well be sheet but still come on, I mean come on, this is getting me down, it's about time you Mericans should suck it up and faced the world without your beloved mad God ( or maybe a weak God : fair enough though iron chariots were probably pretty scary).
There's a sweet mutant on io9 today, pictured above, I'm sure it'd freak most peoples out if they found it climbing their bedroom wall.
Clue is actually a funny film, which as it's based on Cluedo was quite a surprise, however I can't imagine the film of Battleships will be anything other than shite. And surely Ridley Scott directing a film based on Monoply is just a hoax ? Tired old Hollywood will be making films based on sweets next.
Glenn Beck does Kermit impression - has probably the most punchable face ever.
Someone's got a petition going to convince Lord Mandy to drop his dingbat idea about banning filesharers, via BoingBoing. Shame it won't work but worth a few minutes to sign up though.
Sorcerer, is a remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear by director William Friedkin. It's a brave effort at updating the story but despite some good acting and a modest script it fails in matching the tension of the original. Roy Schieder stars as one of the desperate men willing to transport unstable dynamite into the hills and puts in a strong performance throughout, it's beautifully shot with some stunning vistas of the Domincan Rep. but sadly it just isn't capable of emerging from underneath it's illustrious predecessor. The Tangerine Dream soundtrack was pretty awful too.
Year One is awful, a really dumb, unfunny film with a couple of shitty lazy performances from Jack Black and Michael Cera. Guess it sounded a good idea on paper because even though it's got a bevy of cameos from actually funny people and it's willing to really plunge the depths for it's comedy it's one of the weakest films I've seen in a while. I'd avoid it.
And I finally got round to watching Deathtrap by Sidney Lumet. It's a twisty murder mystery based on a play by Ira Lewin and is well worth your time. There's two great performances by Caine & Reeve and one awful one by Dyan Cannon but it's a very entertaining film nonetheless. It's a tale about a failing playwright who decides to kill for his next big hit, it's chock full of witty lines and rips along at a fair pace. Only a few more Lumet's left, boo.
Urgh, linking a post from the NOTW via Guido makes me feel a bit sick but I've long thought that Gordo resigning due to illness is Labour's only hope of turning the tide against Cameron's Calvacade of Cints. I doubt they've got a plan in place for a replacement though, egos and stunning disorganisation seem to be their modusoperandi.
Wired has a great post about some French effort to bring the Milky Way into a beautiful clickable panorama.
Another great piece from Brooker skewering both Hirst and Mandy - the latter is way behind the curve on filesharing but I did watch him maul a Sky News monkey and BBC plum within half an hour of each other, twas quite amusing.
Just finished another Stanislaw Lem book, The Futurological Congress, is a crazy blunderbuss of a satire blasting everything in sight. I was surprised by the books light, frivolous tone, it feels more like a PKD in comparison to Solaris or Fiasco. Was great though and I noticed there's a listing on IMDB for a upcoming movie and learnt there's another Lem adaptation already made and getting decent reviews.
Fifty Dead Men Walking was pretty decent, a pacey little thriller based on Martin McGartland's book about informing on the IRA. Dunno who the lead is but he's quite good and deftly backed up by the Ben Kingsley sporting the funniest wig I've seen in a while. I got over it though and enjoyed the rest of the film.
Adventureland, wasn't so bad, I was expecting something much worse after seeing the trailer a while back. Sure it's a predictable indie romcom and it isn't a sidesplitter but it's got a nice downbeat feel to it and a semi-decent script, Eisenberg was surprisingly good too.
Man in The White Suit - I hadn't seen this since I was a kid and it was way better this time around. Alec Guiness stars a determined chemist who develops a special stain & wear resistant fabric only for management and the unions try to shut him down.
Infestation - a bug apocalypse flick scraped into averageness I guess. A slacker office worker wakes up covered in webbing to find everyone else cocooned by some rather large bugs. The FX are ok but the rest of the film lurches around, not funny, not gory enough and full of plot holes way too large to mention. Only the appearance of Ray Wise kept me interested.
Missed last night's Watchdog on the YLOD, guess I'll watch it on the embedded iplayer on my XMB. Needless to say Sony aint best pleased and it's started a fanboy flamewar across the webby forums It's a shame they employed Iain Lee though, he's a massive tit and is rather fond of slurping Microsoft coqs.
