Last week I was frustrated when I decided to watch Commando and discovered that I didn’t actually have it. Yesterday I bought it in HMV so I could scratch that itch. It was only available in a box set with Predator, Terminator & Conan.  Good value – although I already have Predator. So tonight I […]
Entries Tagged as 'DVD'
Bang, boom, yippee-kayay etc.
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bang, boom, yippee-kayay etc. · Life
For no particular reason I decided to assert my masculinity this week, and also get some use out of my TV and DVD player which otherwise sit idle most of the time. I watched Die Hard 4.0 again first of all. I wanted to enjoy the explosions and mayhem on one level but riducule the […]
Election disaster
June 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
As the general election draws ever nearer, a new contender gains popularity. He is young and charismatic and everybody seems to like him, although they don’t quite know why and don’t really know what he stands for.  After his landslide victory he says “this country has been sick. This country needs healing. This country needs […]
Back to the future
May 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Back to the future · Life
I am now two-thirds of the way through the DVD box set of the Back to the Future trilogy. Somehow I managed to get this far without seeing any of them. I have been on the set in California and seen the town hall and I went on the ride (either in California or Florida. […]
Dead Set
May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Got around to watching Dead Set over the weekend. Not sure I entirely agree with speeding zombies: I watched the interview where Charlie Brooker explained his decision to have them running but I am a bit of an old fuddy-duddy traditionalist and prefer to see zombies shuffling. Still, it was all good fun and Davina […]
Getting more stupid
April 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Getting more stupid · Life, Technology
I had a perfect example this evening of how we are getting more stupid.  Or maybe its just me, in fact thinking about it, it probably is just me.  I have often reflected on how, if I was somehow transported back in time to occupy my own body twenty years ago I would be totally […]
Day of the Dead
February 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I have been wearing the new specs around the house, trying to get used to them and get used to looking through the right bit of them for different distances. It is a bit trial-and-error but when I get it right there is a great improvement. This evening I watched a DVD and it was […]
Bizarre Love Triangle
October 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Bizarre Love Triangle · Life
Tonight I watched the second of this month’s DVD from Amazon’s Vine programme: Triangle. Fortunately this was not the dodgy 80’s ferry-based TV show with Kate O’Mara in it, but a Chinese action film. Here is what I thought:
Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
October 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
One of this month’s offers from Amazon’s Vine programme was So I Said To This Bloke – a DVD of comedian Tim Vine performing in London. Here is what I thought of it:
Nobody’s Diary
October 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I do like a good zombie film, especially those made by George A Romero, so I was dead chuffed to see a DVD in the shops the other day of Diary Of The Dead. After reading the back of the box I was in two minds about getting it, despite my great affection for the […]
