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TPB AFK (2013)

by Adrian J. Watts on April 28, 2013, no comments

Directed by: Simon Klose It took me awhile to get around to watching TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard) and I’m not entirely sure that I didn’t waste 82 minutes. More, actually, since despite downloading the movie from its official source at The Pirate Bay, I found it incompatible with my media [...]

I’m gonna get soooo big!

by Adrian J. Watts on June 24, 2011, no comments

So the last few days, I’ve been using my netbook to leech off free wi-fi rather than paying absurd amounts for mobile broadband access. The easiest place to do this is McDonald’s. The problem is, I am addicted to Maccas’ $2 Double Beef and Cheese burger. If I sit in McDonald’s for an hour using [...]

Tropic Thunder (2008)

by Adrian J. Watts on June 10, 2011, no comments

I saw Tropic Thunder a few nights ago. It hadn’t been a huge priority for me as I am not much of a fan of anyone in it. I did, however, think Robert Downey Jr. was hilarious… but this was offset by Ben Stiller’s "retard" jokes, which I found exceptionally distasteful and offensive.

Spellbinder

by Adrian J. Watts on June 8, 2011, no comments

I watched all twenty-six episodes of Spellbinder over the past few days. Spellbinder was an Australian/Polish kids’ show that aired in 1995. A teenage boy gets caught in a bit of an electromagnetic mix-up and winds up in another world which, while supposedly being the same place and time, is radically different from his own. [...]

1222 by Anne Holt

by Adrian J. Watts on June 7, 2011, no comments

I finished reading 1222 by Anne Holt last night. It is set in Norway, and deals with what happens when, after being in a train crash and then getting snowed-in at a mountaintop hotel while waiting to be rescued, almost 300 people must deal with a murderer in their midst… and the occupants of a [...]

Toei / Marvel tokusatsu that never was

by Adrian J. Watts on June 6, 2011, no comments

The other day, Marvel Comics editor C. B. Cebulski posted links to blog articles about live-action series (and one anime) Toei went pretty far along planning during their exclusive deal with Marvel in the 1970s and 1980s (think Toei’s Spider-Man series). One of them, the blogger suggests, eventually became Space Sheriff Gavan! All links present [...]