Archive for June, 2008

A Tabular Summary of the Rambo Movies

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I didn't make this, but I thought it interesting enough to steal. For the record, I quite liked the first Rambo film, it is almost a "proper movie" about a man who no longer fits into the society that sent him away to war. Rambo II was a sharp right turn ...

Variations on the Theme

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

I have been mucking around with the custom WordPress theme that gives this blog its look. I was using a theme called Pop-Blue, which has a nice clean design that I liked. It does, however, suffer from a few design decisions that are endemic on the web: Related posts:TV Theme Quiz I have ...

Movie Review : Black Book

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Director Paul Verhoeven is a complicated man, whose interests include violence, sex, robots, dismemberment, breasts, violence, explosions, resurrection imagery, and breasts; a set that broadly mirrors my own. So of course I have been a fan of Verhoeven's films ever since Robocop. Black Book is a WWII resistance movie about a ...

Game Review : Origins : How We Became Human

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Monday was Queen's Birthday, and how better to celebrate the life of our monarch than by inviting a bunch of guys around to play board games. Nigel turned up with a game called Origins : How We Became Human which is no less than a recreation of 100,000 years of ...