Acclaimed television psychic Tony Stockwell is coming to UCH, Limerick on Sunday 16th May. Tony is of course a master manipulator and a complete fraud. So why am I advertising his show?
Well here is a video of Tony in action. He's good, he's got genuine talent. I haven't seen such calm, professional cold reading techniques [...]
The following clip will perform two functions.
Firstly, it will mercilessly ridicule the alternative medicine industry. Secondly, it will remind you that Mitchell & Webb are the funniest comedy team since Fry & Laurie.
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Doug and Tony in the Time Tunnel
I guess it's too late now, but I've started to think of Primer (2004) as the movie I had always wanted to make.
My idea (which first occurred to me around age 15) was to take a simple story, add a trip back in time, then another and another ad [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
Was it really Annual?
Please file this under Crap You Never Thought (or Hoped) Would Resurface.
While watching the excellently re-imagined Battlestar Galactica last night, I got to thinking about the original series from 1978 and I remembered my childlike excitement(†) before each new episode came out.
Nostalgia swelled up within me as recalled another classic of the [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Every one a coconut
Remember the reports about the former children's home in Jersey? Gruesome dungeons of torture and death? I guess we were all eager for a fresh fix of Fritzl frighteners.
Haut de la Garennne seemed the perfect setting for nefarious acts of murder most foul. Movies like Nicole Kidman's The Others, House on Haunted [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
According to the Irish Times, the chaplain in TCD seems to think that Father Ted Crilly is 'an everyman type of character,' and his antics 'teach us an important lesson about spiritual love.'
He uses Ted in his sermons to connect with young people. While I applaud the attempt to modernise his material, I can't help [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
i.e. with a laugh track. This one just gets funnier as it progresses.
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He's done his fair share of pedestrian comedy films (á la Rob Schneider and Martin Lawrence) but Ferrell is a master of comedic instinct–like the time when, as lunatic boss Mr Tarkanian, he continued stabbing that office worker with a trident way beyond when it stopped being funny, because he knew it would come around [...]
