The Dossing Times

I try to steer clear of writing too many reviews in the first person. Many a blog writer will of course offer their opinion, blogs are quite often a vehicle for expressing oneself, but looking to the arts review of any paper come the weekend and that Fridays releases will be disected and pored over [...]

I always liked Halloween as a child we used to play bobbing for coins, apples on a string, wear masks and try and frighten the disinterested cat, go down to the neighbours bomb fire that me and my friends had carefully built from random bits of wood from around their farm. It was always fun. [...]

With my Mam and Dad coming to Dublin this weekend, I am for the first time in my life ‘hosting’ my parents. Said event inspires the list below.
6. Jack and Norma Arnold
All American, demanding father, doting mother.

5. Cliff and Claire Huxtable
Large family, huge ratings, both with professions.

4. Charles and Caroline Ingalls
Hard working, inspired popular fiction, [...]

 
‘Scrubs’ as we know it ended tonight, for me at least. RTE in their infinite wisdom had some sort of brain haemorhage and moved the final episodes of the series from a cheer you up Monday evening slot to a grave yeard shift on Wednesday. And they wonder why no one watches TV anymore. The [...]

I’m not entirely certain why there is an Associated Press logo in the corner of the screen and how or why an interview with Ricky Gervais and Elmo came about, all I know its dam funny. Even with his disrespectful tone Gervais cant but appreciate the good company he’s keeping.

Seemingly a well loved childrens book which I have never heard of it, the trailer below looks lovely and brilliant, though in using an Arcade Fire track they get an automatic pass to an intriguing trailer. Said trailer is for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. Enjoy.

Scifi Wire, the news facet of the Scifi Channel, has put together a list of the 12 best movie moon landings. With a staff of well informed sci-fi fans the list spans right back to the beginning of film. Lists like this often introduce you to new movies you my want to put on your [...]

As with the book, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ opens and concludes with ominous events which are pivotal to propelling events forward as to the dark story arc involving Voldemort and the boy who lived, one Harry Potter. A 6 year veil of ambiguity is seemingly lifted from the motivations of Severus Snape in [...]