The Dossing Times

I’m sure there are tracts of text devoted to rumblings amidst the shareholders of Independent News and Media this week, there is however plenty of coverage stateside following a sudden resignation by the head honcho of Disney and his replacement by a rival. The Disney line-up has been thrown into disarray with Johnny Depp publicly [...]

Throughout ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ there was often a suggestion of slaying and hunting evil being an aphrodisiac, an animalistic urge and a source of appetite. Where a parallel was created between fighting and sex, said sex was shot with a teen audience in mind and only bare shoulders exposed. ‘True Blood’, similarly centred on [...]

The unique selling point for ‘District 9′ is worth discussing and having seen the movie is due praise. It won’t ruin the film for you to say to say that District 9 is a movie which indirectly comments on racial and ethnic differences, looking to responses from within communities and from governments. In the opening [...]

Find below the trailer for ‘Zombieland’, which presents itself as a pumped-up ‘Shaun of the Dead’, though seems to aim more for a B-movie vibe, with an upped quota of comedic action and its own distinct brand of quirkiness. Released on the 9 October this is the type of movie that will fall into a [...]

‘Waitress’ was the first movie I was ever asked to attend a preview of and review for a professional film outlet; I felt like I had won a war to be myself that day. Even better, the movie itself was a pleasure and I had great company. Donal over at the Good Mood Food Blog [...]

Lisbon 2 like most sequels, is emerging as a lacklustre and frustrating affair, with a repeat of the mistakes of the Yes campaign from the first poll wiped from their collective memory, and the No campaign upping the stakes of their scare mongering – this second referendum it seems will be about anything but EU [...]

I’ve battled with how to begin my approach to conveying my love for ‘30 Rock’ on the blog. Its been a frenzy of watching episodes of late, so much so that a day without an episode is an oddity. The humour is compulsively addictive, so that at points my chest hurts from laughing so hard. [...]