A work mate just commented that they were ‘ a regular Kasparov’ - I naturally went to Wikipedia - learn more here.

Greek mythology tells of 9 Muses who sat atop Mount Olympus dispensing various forms of inspiration to needy artists. The daughters of Zeus and Zeus and Mnemosyne, each presided over a specific category of the arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy). For this week’s [...]

I’m not sure what the necessary criteria are for a documentary to get a cinematic release – the Discovery Channel and the BBC, the production houses behind ‘Man on Wire’ can surely lay claim to consistently rich and varied output when it comes to documenting the earths wonders, historic events and the achievements of man [...]

20.08.2008

‘Who Watches the Watchmen’

It’s an insidious game, this comic book adaptation lark. Zack Snyder, the man behind ‘300′ has taken on the difficult task (one abandoned by the likes of Paul Greengrass and Terry Gilliam) of adapting ‘Watchmen’ for the screen. I’ve written before on my impression of ‘Watchmen’, I picked it up because of [...]

So I have begun the practice recently of saving text messages to my phone, rather than keep a mental note which will fail miserable, due to me either being drunk, forgetful or a little bit of both, of something that I wanted to remember, look up, a recommendation made to me and so forth. Here [...]

TV schedulers seem to have some sort of vendetta against airing quality TV shows and movies at reasonable times. Tonight BBC2 show the Beatles movie ‘A Hard Days Night’, followed by a double bill of ‘Arrested Development’ from 11.45 while prime time tomorrow night on RTE 1 is given over to the horse manure that [...]

On first discovering this movie I posted a link to the trailer, remarking how it might just be the worse premise for a movie in the history of humanity. Note to all of you who have conversations with people who know you anyway well - do not agree to a dare to go to a [...]

The pomp of the Opening Ceremony has given way to our country’s best atheletes striving for gold. A reoccuring conversation though is often whether the sports they hope to represent their country in are anything but pointless displays rather than a reflection of great sporting ability. We’ve looked through the back catalogue of discontinued sports [...]

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