December 2009
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Movie Review - Avatar
Avatar Director: James Cameron - Release Year: 2009 – Distributor: 20th Century Fox Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver
Avatar, lauded for its technical wonder and visual splendour, rests its $250 million investment on the success of the very technology it will surely become famous for. It’s become apparent that computer generated imagery, characters especially,...
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A Decade Leap
Technology has come so far since the beginning of the decade – things we take for granted now were incredible technological advances or distant pipe dreams back then. I remember being jealous of those with WAP capability on their high tech Nokia phones but now my handheld games systems, my mobile phone and my MP3 player all have extremely sophisticated browsers as extraneous menu options. I...
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Recommended iPhone Apps: (UK) TV and Video
BBC iPlayer - Web Link Strangely enough the BBC has spent too much time faffing about with Top Gear and Pomegranate Ice recipe books to come up with a dedicated BBC iPlayer application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Luckily the mobile website works great on the platform and offers mostly the same functionality as the full site. Still, it would be nice to have a fully featured application, perhaps...
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The Ballad of the Flip Flick Trick
I’m currently reviewing Tony Hawk RIDE (what happened to the possessive form of Hawk from every other game in the franchise?), but I’ve hit a stumbling block – the fabled “Flip Flick Trick”, sometimes referred to as a “Flip Trick”, sometimes as a “Flick Trick” and sometimes as a “Flip Flick Trick”. It’s pretty much down to whatever the game, menu, manual or website wants to call it at that time....
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Link Dump - December 16th
Stuff I Did Resolution - Resurrection: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Resolution’s “resurrection” moniker is for a series of articles which pipes up with retrospectives of old school games when there’s some relevance or opportunity. Turns out that British developer Revolution are chucking the first three Broken Sword games onto Steam, so no time like the present to gush superlatives...
TO SUM UP – THE BEST OF TWO THOUSAND AND NINE
SONS OF ANARCHY Created by Kurt Sutter, Season 2 Debuted September 8th Brutal, violent and undeniably cool, but Sons of Anarchy hides a smart and engrossing character drama beneath the bikes, guns and women. Honourable Mentions: LOST Season 5, How I Met Your Mother Season 4/5 MOON Directed by Duncan Jones, Released July 17th Intricately designed, beautifully shot and painfully retro, from Sam...
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Recommended iPhone App: Classics
Classics - Andrew Kaz & Phill Ryu - £1.79 I like to read, but I’m not a huge fan of carrying books around with me. As technology has evolved I have been able to get by without a bag entirely, but still have a games console, MP3 player, phone, voice recorder, web browser and hundreds of other pieces of technology on my person, with just one or two devices. Fitting reading material into them...
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TV Show of Two Thousand and Nine – Sons of Anarchy...
Sons of Anarchy : On FX : 2008-Present : Catch it in the UK on Bravo Welcome to sunny Charming, California! Come for the gunfights, bare-knuckle brawls, car chases, explosions and loose women – stay for the deep character progression, mature storytelling and intelligent drama! I don’t really remember what prompted me to start watching Sons of Anarchy late this year, but the promise...
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Albums of the Year - Two Thousand and Nine
I don’t take music particularly seriously; I listen to songs, not artists or albums. I like voices and noises and unique arrangements and sounds, but I don’t listen for lyrics or messages or poetry. In fact, I doubt I could write out the entire lyrics to any song, no matter how many times I’ve listened to it. It’s like a personal filter that just transforms the words and sentences of singers...