I saw indie poppers Nada Surf last night at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. I left with an overall feeling of “meh”. I like sticking on one of their albums every now and then and I think 2005’s ‘The Weight is a Gift’ is pretty good but there’s always a case of sameness with their musical style and that was very evident in their live show. (read more…)

Wow, what an hilariously brilliant film this is! It’s an incredible, over-the-top, piss-take, self-deprecating, action movie that is equal parts exhilarating and funny. Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti are brilliant as the dry, uber-cool, caricatured hero and villain. (read more…)

The best week of the year is upon us once again - the four day Cheltenham horse racing festival. I’ll be posting on the Letsbet.ie Cheltenham Forum every day with my thoughts and tips (under the username ‘Flyingbolt’). There’s also a free tipping competition on that site so make sure to check it out! (read more…)

In what way can it be good to be regularly and forcibly awoken from sleep by a shrill noise? I despise alarm clocks. Hate them, hate them, hate them! I’ve always struggled to wake up at any early hour (ie. pre-noon) and I also always struggle to get to sleep at any meaningful hour at night. This puts me out of whack with the normal working society. What’s more, I need to sleep more than most people. Nine and a half hours minimum but preferably over ten. (read more…)

This is an Austrian film about a group of dudes put into a German concentration camp pre-WWII. They were hand picked specifically to implement a large counterfeiting operation designed to damage the economies of Germany’s enemies. (read more…)

What an absolutely ingenious mess of a film! Even at 2hrs 25 mins, it’s still too short. It’s obvious that writer/director Richard Kelly had to edit a lot out. I’d love to see a 4 hour cut of the film because there’s just so much stuff going on that needs more time to develop. But ultimately this is the version that we get to see and we have to make do with it. (read more…)

If you thought ‘There Will Be Blood‘ was a work of genius then wait until you get a load of ‘There Will Be Bud’,  a parody of the trailer for Blood. It’s a fantastically made production and extremely funny. (read more…)

I’m a big fan of Will Ferrell but it gets tiring when he just keeps making the same film. In Semi-Pro he plays another outrageously larger-than-life character who yet again finds an excuse to take off his clothes (this time to fight a bear). (read more…)