Daniel Woolstencroft's Little Movie Blog Thing
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
It's always nice to be surprised. Maybe I should rephrase that: it's always nice to be surprised by a film. These days there's an awful lot of tired generic crap out there. Cinema with no soul, no bite, no passion.
Every now and then you get low budget little movies that pop up and blow you away. You get a body-blow of refreshment and inspiration when someone gets it so very right and it appears with no fanfare at all.
And that's the case with The Disappearance of Alice Creed. It's got some positive press in the UK (perhaps gaining extra attention because of a certain rising British star's …
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Predators
Predators is, in a nutshell, a 106 minute love letter to John McTiernan's '87 original. That's a good thing and a bad thing.
It's a good thing because, frankly, everything since the original has been …
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links for 2010-07-01
A Ridiculous Attachment?
Three iPhone 4s, three different faults. That's where I stand now. Reception issues, "No Sim" errors, and now the yellow screen blotches.
Do I go …
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links for 2010-06-24
The iPhone 4 Experience (or "A Worm in my Apple")
I get up at 3am, drive through the quiet streets into Leicester town centre to park up and head to the Apple Store.
There's …
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links for 2010-06-13
How to get your Android phone to send SMS notifications to your iPad
Not sure how many people fit into the Android + iPad demographic, but I thought I'd post this in the hope that …
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links for 2010-06-03
iPhone 3GS to Nexus One: Day 11 - "What next?"
A few things have happened in the last 6 days. Some good, some bad.
Let's do the bad first.
I tried to buy an app from Android's …
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Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside
Love this. And for anyone that recognises her but can't place that name: Christina Hendricks.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdis2j_christina-hendricks-broken-bells_music#from=embed …
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links for 2010-05-28
iPhone 3GS to Nexus One: Day 5 - "Woah?"
So much for a post a day eh?
Here I am: day 5 of using a Nexus One instead of an iPhone 3GS. Despite feeling genuine emotion while …
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Fantastic Zombie Short: Plague
I said there were a couple of things I wanted to post, and despite that fact that it's taken me days to get around to it, here's the first.
It's a zombie short called Plague, and it's awesome. I really …
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Not Dead!
And not undead either, before you start.
This blog has been neglected for a blummin' age, but no longer. I have at least two, count 'em, two posts I need to share with you all. Assuming anyone is still …
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