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  • Movie Quest 2010

    Movie Quest 2010

    Movie Quest 2010

    I’ve been really bad with doing this, I’ll see how many movies I’ll watch between now and New Year’s Eve until its Movie Quest 2011.

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    The Kids Are Alright

    This movie started off really well, laugh out loud funny in places. Unfortunately after the first 15/20 minutes things went downhill. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, who also directed episodes of The L Word and Six Feet Under, ‘The Kids Are Alright‘ tells the story of a lesbian couple played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore who have used a sperm donor to have two kids. When the eldest turns eighteen, the childrens’ father (Mark Ruffalo), is brought into their lives.

    After the story background, the story starts failing. Bening’s character is a complete bitch who treats her partner like crap but instead of working out the extra subplots properly the story relies on the fact that the story is about a lesbian couple. Let’s it down a lot. Worth a look if you are completely snowed in and don’t mind never getting that hour and a bit back.

     

    Salt

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    Angelina Jolie is overlooked a lot as being a great actor, mainly because she’s hot. She’s back in action mode here as a CIA agent, Evelyn Salt, who may or may not be a Russian spy, I’m not going to tell. Interesting story, more interesting as sleeper spies were found in the US earlier this year.

    Salt goes on the run as a Russian defector names her as the person about to assassinate the Russian president who is in NYC. Failing to get in touch with her husband, Salt goes on the run fearing for his safety.

    Directed by Philip Noyce this is an extremely enjoyable film, great fight scenes, a few crashes and buildings being blown up. Pity Angelina’s blonde look is so awful though.

  • Vyvienne Long: Bad Move Review

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    ‘Bad Move’ is the new single from Vyvienne Long and is taken from the album ‘Caterpillar Sarabande’. ‘Bad Move’ is different from other music around. The track starts with delicate Bjork like vocals before a dark chamber string section grabs your ears, gives them a shake and demands them to listen up. Long manages to mix these elements of pop, folk, rock and classical to create a fresh approach. Arrangement on the track is intriguing and mesmerising and coupled with intelligent lyrics, is a late contender for my favourite track of the year.

    ‘They’re Not Waving’ opens with an dark string line before an uptempo beat brings the track to a more lightened mood. Great melodies, beautiful harmonies and a memorable chorus hook, don’t let the listener down. Again production on the track is fantastic, beautifully mixed and perfectly balanced. Listen on a great stereo system to get its full effect.  This is enough for me to get the album. Pure brilliance.

  • Want to be on my new Podcast?

    In January, this blog will be moving over to nessymon.com. When it moves, I am going to try doing a podcast every week or fortnight, covering music, arts and entertainment. The aim of the podcast is to provide another platform for musicians, artists, authors, painters. I will chat with them about influences, goals, all that sort of stuff.

    It doesn’t matter where you are living, Dublin or Darwin, through the magic of the internet, I’m hoping to chat with people from all around our little globe.

    If you would like to get involved please email me at: nessycast@gmail.com

    Thanky!

  • JibJab’s Review of 2010

    JibJab’s Review of 2010

    JibJab’s Review of 2010

    I love JibJab‘s end of year reviews, even though it is it more Americanised rather than focused on the European side of the pond, I still find these hilarious.

    Here’s 2010’s end of year review.

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