Time for another of Evan’s video toy reviews. I’m not sure what accent he puts on when he’s doing these, but it’s certainly not his usual one. They say that the camera adds 10 pounds, but in his case it also appears that the camera add a private school education….

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The Borrower series of books by Mary Norton were always a favourite of mine as a child. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to watch two movies based on the books – The Borrowers (1997) staring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, and Mark Williams which I saw streaming on Picturebox, and also…

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Last night while flailing around on Spotify I stumbled across a singer/songwriter called Leddra Chapman and promptly got lost in her 2009 album Telling Tales. Chapman writes beautiful folk melodies and has a stunning voice, although unfortunately I do find her RP accent a little grating on my thick Yorkshire…

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I’m just that little bit too old to be able to benefit from the full force of the Harry Potter phenomenon. I enjoyed the books of course, and to a lesser extent the movies. But the people most profoundly affected by the series are those who grew up alongside Potter….

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It’s true what they say – Transformers 3 isn’t half as bad as Transformers 2. The main reason for this is that the action sequences are handled much better. First of all, you can tell what’s going on rather than Transformers 2′s blur of grey robot limbs flashing across the…

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Amy and Evan have been shipped off to the grandparents tonight and so Kerry and I have the house to ourselves. We originally had plans of going out to see the Green Lantern movie, but the lackluster reviews have put us off paying Friday night prices for it – I’ll…

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A theatre review? Ooo how swanky! Actually, I very much enjoy the theatre and have done since my late teens. I used to be a rather regular attender and have yet to see a professional production I have not enjoyed (although must admit, there are a fair few armature ones…

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Recently on the Midmoclub Podcast I mentioned that out of the dozens of superhero movies coming out this year I was looking forward to X-Men First Class the least. I said that the characters didn’t inspire me, I was unhappy with the inconsistancy of the X-Men in Marvels universe, and…

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I’m not sure if this video is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on YouTube, but it’s certainly the funniest one I’ve seen this year. Keep with it, it’s fantastic: I’ve been spending quite a bit of time playing games over the past couple of weeks. My biggest passion has…

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Recently I was approached by PictureBox, an online service that streams movies to your PC, Mac, iPad (and even a Samsung Internet-connected smart TV, whatever the hell that is). They asked me if I’d like to test out their service for a year and review some of their movies on…

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