Watch all the Watchmen previews released to date including the latest full length trailer that lets you in on some plot - here. I’m not a fan of slo-mo but apart from that proceedings look excellent.

6. ‘The Big Sleep’
Convoluted plot be dammed, the dialogue in this movie is just dynamite. I’ve selected some of the best stuff below. Howard Hawkes directed, Bogart and Bacall on top billing, the title refers to a long term sleep, that of death.
Vivian: You go too far, Marlowe.
Marlowe: Those are harsh words to throw at [...]

Roaming Rebel is running an interesting survey through his work blog on how media, print media and news provision will evolve in light of the Christian Science Monitor’s decision to publish online only from 2009. Have you say here.

The Irish Times proposes its a sign of the times, I propose its a sign of good taste that ‘Jo Burger’ has topped the list of the best restaurants in Dublin. The only flaw with the place is its out of city centre location, otherwise its no nonsense yet respectful treatment of burger, turning it [...]

*No apologies made for the shamefully obvious post title
 
A great few days was just had in Canterbury – a new standard has been set for Dossing Times events – planning will have to kick in soon for the next proposed event in 09.
 
The train journey to Canterbury, an agreement was made to keep a list [...]

So the ads have begun, the party discussions are in full flow, the window displays have appeared and the shops are bulging with Christmas fare. Why not save yourself the bother of being stressed by it, being turned off the prospect of the oncoming silly season and generally falling victim to the negative conversations of [...]

I get locked into arguments with someone whose technique is to muddle my trail of thought with confusion - they applied this recently to going so far as making me doubt my opinion of Sarah Palin. Then I watch these videos, both she and my arguer are idiots.

6. Obama will be the first president in U.S. history whose last name ends in a vowel other than E or Y. He is, not surprisingly, the first Barack to appear on a presidential ticket. Joe Biden is the fourth Joe/Joseph, but the first successful one.
 
5. While Barack Obama is tall at 6 ft. 1 [...]

So it was a year ago this week I put together a list of 25 movie highlights that have made an impression on my movie tastes and interests. Hindsight and perspective saw many of these movies earn their place in the list, not that they were the most popular or best of a given year [...]

Mild Spoilers
Suitably suave in black tie, an event to launch a global media network, escorted to a backroom by henchmen, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, disposed mercilessly of the last man standing with a single sharp blow to his head using a nearby glass ash tray.
There are the slick lunacies of the plans of Bond [...]