Articles tagged with: entertainment

• Bird Box (2018) film review - worth watching
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 01 May 2019 at 17:40 with tags: entertainment, films, review.
  490 words, 2 minute read time.
  A review of Bird Box, a 2018 horror drama starring Sandra Bullock and directed by Susanne Bier.
• Anti-Pasti, but not the pizza
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 24 April 2019 at 11:05 with tags: entertainment, music.
  276 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  The song No Goverment by Anti-Pasti, which I only remembered because someone ordered an antipasti pizza.
• Serpent (2017) film review — I only liked the snake
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 22 April 2019 at 12:40 with tags: entertainment, films, review.
  298 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  A review of Serpent, a 2017 South African film starring Tom Ainsley and Sarah Dumont, directed by Amanda Evans.
• Chris Sievey and The Freshies
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 14 April 2019 at 20:30 with tags: entertainment, music.
  524 words, 2 minute read time.
  Chris Sievey was Frank Sidebottom and, sadly, more people remember him for that than his band, The Freshies.
• The Girl in the Spider’s Web film (2018) review
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 08 April 2019 at 10:33 with tags: entertainment, films, review.
  615 words, 3 minute read time.
  A review of The Girl in the Spider's web, another Millennium sequel starring Claire Foy as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander.
• Equalizer 2 (2018) film review
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 26 March 2019 at 08:19 with tags: entertainment, films, review.
  464 words, 2 minute read time.
  A review of Equalizer 2 in which Denzel Washington reprises his roll as action hero Robert McCall.
• Mandy (2018) film review - psychotic psychedelia
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 22 March 2019 at 10:20 with tags: entertainment, films, review.
  465 words, 2 minute read time.
  A review of 'Mandy', a psychedelic horror movie starring Nicholas Cage and Andrea Riseborough.
• Hunter Killer review - tense but otherwise average
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 14 March 2019 at 06:30 with tags: entertainment, films, review.
  280 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  A review of 'Hunter Killer', a submarine-based moview starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. Distinctly average is my verdict.
• 5 musical howlers from the 60s and 70s
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 21 February 2019 at 06:45 with tags: entertainment, music.
  561 words, 2 minute 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.
• Please telly, have mercy on me
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 24 August 2018 at 07:50 with tags: entertainment, tv, rant.
  353 words, 2 minute 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 good books I’ve read in 2018
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 11 August 2018 at 07:30 with tags: entertainment, books.
  823 words, 3 minute 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.
• 10 awesome punk songs you may have forgotten about
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 09 April 2018 at 05:46 with tags: entertainment, music.
  227 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  10 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.
• Rebel Rebel
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 19 March 2018 at 07:45 with tags: entertainment, music, review.
  678 words, 3 minute 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.
• The Fast and The Furious 8 (The Fate of The Furious) review - complete tosh
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 08 March 2018 at 07:50 with tags: entertainment, review, films.
  520 words, 2 minute 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.