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Robin Catling
Movie Catch-up: Daybreakers (2010)
Welcome to the night-time, rain-soaked and neon-lit world or Daybreakers, writer-directors Michael and Peter Spierig’s stylish, hit-and-miss vampire horror. There’s no dialogue for almost ten minutes in the well-crafted set-up – vampires have taken over the planet, humans are an endangered species farmed for food, their dwindling numbers creating a food crisis that threatens to … Continue reading
Review: Phoenix – Bankrupt!
The French “classic-pop revivalists” fifth album Bankrupt! pushes further into throwback pop. It turns up the synths, turns down the Strokesy guitars and morphs into an 80′s copycat of Stuart Price’s (Les Rythmns Digitales) 80′s tribute Dark Dancer. Really? Four years in the making, and all they come up with to follow Grammy award-winning, 2009 … Continue reading
Opinion: From tumblr to Tumbleweed – I Give It a Year
One Billion Dollars!! If, like me, you were surprised to hear that this is not Dr. Evil splashing the cash, but Internet dinosaur Yahoo, your first reaction might have been: wow, Yahoo has still got a billion dollars? Second surprise; they just spent it on a cash acquisition. Yes, cash. This is not one of … Continue reading
How-to: Install Ubuntu 12.x On Older Hardware
With Windows XP support coming to an end and many older PC’s, laptops and net-books struggling to cope with newer software, you might want to think about going Open Source and switching to a free upgrade: namely Ubuntu versions supporting older processors. You may have read that from version 12.x onward, many Ubuntu users thought … Continue reading
Review: Firefox Download Manager
Since early April, the Firefox web-browser comes with a new Download Manager; with the indicator and progress icon now embedded in the Firefox toolbar, you get an aggregate view of what’s currently downloading and how long is the remaining time to completion. Click on the icon and you get a Show all downloads button. Hit … Continue reading
Opinion: The Magic of the Movies (Re-post)
Originally posted at Catling on Film. I’ve been watching movies as long as I can remember. Silent clowns Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton; classic Westerns (all of them!), visionary science fiction from Forbidden Planet to The Day the Earth Stood Still. I thrilled at Errol Flyn as Robin Hood and the Sea Hawk; Jimmy Stewart … Continue reading
Movie Catch-Up: Source Code (2011)
Duncan Jones’ superb high-concept second feature eventually sinks under the weight of its’ own pseudo-science nonsense, but not before Jake Gyllenhaal turns in a star performance. Implanted into a dead man’s last eight minutes of life, air-force pilot Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) has to find a terrorist bomber on a train in order to stop an … Continue reading
Review: Danny Boyle – Man of Wonder (BBC Culture Show Special)
“In a Culture Show special, Oscar winning director Danny Boyle talks to Mark Kermode about his new film Trance, London 2012′s afterglow and the highs and lows of an extraordinary film-making career.” Danny Boyle began his career in subversive agit-prop theatre at the Royal Court and went on to be equally subversive in TV. Breaking … Continue reading
Humour: Tomorrow’s Technology Today – Work
From the HMFC Memorial Sound Archive we present another episode of the show, Tomorrow’s Technology Today from the archives. Listen to Episode Four here: Tomorrow’s Technology Today Episode 4: Work Painstakingly restored by Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard, with the assistance of Studio 1919, Tomorrow’s Technology Today was a pioneering broadcast which ran from 1936 … Continue reading
How-to: Create a Multi-Photo album on Facebook
You all know how I DON’T do Facebook? Well I look after the FB page for a sports club and finally found a reason for uploading photos there that I didn’t want anywhere else. Only it didn’t work… The Help makes it really simple: To upload photos: Click Add Photo/Video at the top of … Continue reading
Movie Catch-Up: Ichi
The Zatoichi legend continues with this handsome tale of a blind, wandering musician and a cowardly samurai fighting bandits, spaghetti-Western style – with twists. Firstly, this languid, at times dream-like Japanese movie is far from your standard katana-actioner, a long way from it’s frenetic forebears. Second, the Ichi character is a woman. Blind from birth, … Continue reading
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