Articles tagged with: Entertainment

• The Fast and The Furious 8 (The Fate of The Furious) review - complete tosh
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Thu 8th Mar 2018 at 07:50 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  520 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  A review of the Fast and The Furious 8 (The Fate of The Furious), which in my opinion is a film without any redeeming features.
• Rebel Rebel - a fantastic recording by Bowie
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 19th Mar 2018 at 07:45 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  665 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  A fantastic live version of David Bowie's 'Rebel Rebel' and an overview of my music tastes, which are quite wide and varied these days.
• Ten awesome punk songs you may have forgotten about
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 9th Apr 2018 at 05:46 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  99 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  Ten punk songs (with YouTube links), mainly from the late 70s and early 80s. Includes songs by Wire, X-Ray Spex, The Only Ones, Crass and others.
• Five good books I’ve read in 2018
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Sat 11th Aug 2018 at 07:30 in category: opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Books.
  801 words, 4 minutes read time.
  Brief reviews of five fiction books I've read in 2018. Authors are Karin Slaughter, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Matt Haig and Gail Honeyman.
• Please telly, have mercy on me
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Fri 24th Aug 2018 at 07:50 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, TV, Rant.
  353 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  Love Island, Strictly, X-Factor, Big Brother, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and similar. Why are we constantly plagued by this nonsense on television?
• Five musical howlers from the 60s and 70s
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Thu 21st Feb 2019 at 06:45 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  494 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  5 truly dreadful songs from the 60s and 70s, at least in my opinion. Presented here with YouTube clips to back up my arguments.
• Hunter Killer review - tense but otherwise average
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Thu 14th Mar 2019 at 06:30 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  280 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  
  A review of 'Hunter Killer', a submarine-based moview starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. Distinctly average is my verdict.
• Mandy (2018) film review - psychotic psychedelia
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Fri 22nd Mar 2019 at 10:20 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  465 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  
  A review of 'Mandy', a psychedelic horror movie starring Nicholas Cage and Andrea Riseborough.
• Equalizer 2 (2018) film review
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Tue 26th Mar 2019 at 08:19 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  457 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  
  A review of Equalizer 2 in which Denzel Washington reprises his roll as action hero Robert McCall.
• The Girl in the Spider’s Web film (2018) review
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 8th Apr 2019 at 10:33 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  615 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  A review of The Girl in the Spider's web, another Millennium sequel starring Claire Foy as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander.
• Chris Sievey and The Freshies
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Sun 14th Apr 2019 at 20:30 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  467 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  Chris Sievey was Frank Sidebottom and, sadly, more people remember him for that than his band, The Freshies.
• Serpent (2017) film review — I only liked the snake
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 22nd Apr 2019 at 12:40 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  298 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  
  A review of Serpent, a 2017 South African film starring Tom Ainsley and Sarah Dumont, directed by Amanda Evans.
• Anti-Pasti, but not the pizza
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Wed 24th Apr 2019 at 11:05 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  265 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  The song No Goverment by Anti-Pasti, which I only remembered because someone ordered an antipasti pizza.
• Bird Box (2018) film review - worth watching
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Wed 1st May 2019 at 17:40 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  538 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  A review of Bird Box, a 2018 horror drama starring Sandra Bullock and directed by Susanne Bier.
• Blondie’s Parallel Lines — top class album
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Thu 29th Aug 2019 at 16:10 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  228 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  A brief assessment of Parallel Lines by Blondie, which I think is an excellent album.
• Avengers: Endgame review — a bit disappointing
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 2nd Sep 2019 at 09:00 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  650 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  My own take on Avengers: Endgame, the finale of Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• From Steve Harley to Camila Cabello
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Wed 11th Sep 2019 at 07:50 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, Music.
  599 words, 3 minutes read time.
  For no useful reason I wanted to see if I could connect Steve Harley to Camila Cabello. It turns out I could.
• In The Tall Grass (2019) movie review — it fails to deliver
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 7th Oct 2019 at 08:30 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, Films.
  577 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  A review of In The Tall Grass, a 2019 horror drama based on a novella by Stephen King.
• Stranger Things — you either love it or hate it, it seems
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Thu 17th Oct 2019 at 05:55 in category: Review, with tags: Entertainment, TV.
  703 words, 3 minutes read time.
  
  A review of seasons 1-3 of Stranger Things, the fantasy-horror thriller from Netflix.