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The Dark Knight Trailer in LEGO!?!

Saturday, 21. June 2008, 10:45:14

THE DARK KNIGHT, LEGO

This guy is great!

The NEW DARK KNIGHT trailer in lego!

and the new DK trailer - awsome!

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KELLI WOLFE - BORN TO BE LOVED BY YOU

Friday, 16. May 2008, 18:57:35

This is a shockingly good song and it is a scandel that I can't buy it....

Kelli Wolfe

Kelli Wolfe — vocal
Barry Gibb — vocal, guitar
Stephen Gibb — guitar
George Perry — bass
Lester Mendez — keyboards, programming
engineer:
producer: Barry Gibb and Scott Glasel
September 1990, Middle Ear, Miami Beach

BORN TO BE LOVED BY YOU
Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb (1990)
undated 1990
stereo 4:41, lead vocal Kelli Wolfe
unreleased B side, August 1993

Kelli Hartman, performing as Kelli Wolfe, was age 19 when Barry first heard her perform in Miami. He offered to sign her to Polydor. As she recalled in 1998, Barry first offered her ‘The Only Love’, but he then replaced it with a song he wrote specifically for her, ‘Born to Be Loved by You’. Kelli has a demo of it with just Barry on voice and guitar. The recording they made together features Barry’s son Steve, age 17, playing guitar, and backing vocals by Barry. Kelli dated it as September.

After recording this one track, Barry lost interest in recording Kelli, but characteristically he would not say so, and let her continue to visit Middle Ear over the next couple of years. Ultimately ‘Born to Be Loved by You’ was put on the B side of a Kelli Wolfe single in 1993, but it was withheld at the last minute after CD singles had been manufactured, and some copies of it were sent to radio stations and even accidentally sold.

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IRON MAN FILM 2008 REVIEW

Tuesday, 6. May 2008, 21:32:41

IRON MAN

Iron Man

Marvel studios have come up with a cracker of a film which potentially sets things up nicely for the The Marvel Avengers being made into a film. You must stay to the very very very end of the closing credits to see what I mean. This film really excites me and already I want to see it again. Why am I raving so much - because I feel this film doesn't make the same mistake many recent superhereo films make by being predictable and formule. The film opening is fantastic within the first 5 minutes we are treated to a flashback with some aswome iconic Tony Stark magazine covers, trust me they look great!

The Advengers is a superhero team that appear in the fictional Marvel Universe. The team, comprising existing Marvel characters variously created by writer-editor Stan Lee, artist and co-plotter Jack Kirby and others, first appeared in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963).

Tagged by the company as "Earth’s Mightiest Heroes", the Avengers originally consisted of Ant-Man, Wasp, Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk. Almost from inception, however, the roster has been fluid - the Hulk departed [1] and Captain America joined the team within the first four issues of the series.[2] The rotating roster has become a hallmark of the team, although one theme remains consistent: the Avengers fight the foes no single superhero can withstand - hence their famous cry of "Avengers Assemble!" The team has featured humans, robots, gods, aliens, supernatural beings and even former villains.
Anyway Robert Downey Jr is great as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. His performace is pretty good and he gives Tony Stark initially at the start of the film some depth. Watch out for him in the Incredible Hulk later in the summer playing Tony Stark (reference the above Avengers!) Maybe Jeff Bridges edges out Robert in this film, his creepy evil character Obadiah Stane left me on the edge of my seat. The truly amazing thing is the visuals the Iron Man and the Iron Monger suits look amazing and the Transformers esque scene at the end is better than anything in the Transformers film - at least you can make out what the hell is going on and the CGI/Human mix scenes are flawless, no dodgy looking bad CGI here, the CGI is truly awsome! Check out when Jeff Bridges is seen inside the open Iron Monger suit it does look very realistic! I look foward to Iron Man 2 in 2010. It is also refreshing that the "girlfriend" in peril scene is done differently for a change, reference Spiderman where Mary Jane is set up as the trap (hostage) to snare Spiderman in all 3 films. (By the way Spiderman 2 is FANTASTIC!) This doesn't happen this time, ok the girl (Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts) is subjected to peril but it feels different and strangely more REALISTIC! Terrence Howard is great too and he provides some humour to the proceedings and we will see him again in Iron Man 2 but I won't give that plot away!!!

I give this blockbuster, the first of the summer a decent 9 out of 10!!!! Loved it, roll on Indiana Jones 4 in two weekes.

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TRIP TO THE BORDERS AND A QUICK STOP IN PRINCES STREET EDINBURGH 5th MAY 2008

Monday, 5. May 2008, 19:23:04

EDINBURGH, PRINCES STREET

I had a lovely weekend visiting family in the Scottish Borders and had a quick visit to Edinburgh Princes Street which was stunning today!

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FILMS SO FAR IN 2008 - AN UPDATE

Tuesday, 29. April 2008, 09:26:38

As you may or may not know I am a cinema junkie and my cinema-holic tastes so far in April 2008 are...

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE KRISTAL SKULL

9 out of 10

On my second visit to seeing the much hyped Indy4 film I have to admit I enjoyed it much more, maybe because my expectations had gone and I enjoyed it for what it was, a cracking adventure ride. I think Harrison Ford is great and the man who dominated 1980's blockbusters is truly back in the big time. I rate Spielberg as one of the - if not, greatest directors ever!

IRON MAN

Wow I saw this 3 times at the cinema and can't stop raving - see my proper review for more information.

9.5 out of 10!!

FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL

Enjoyed this film very much and thought Daniel Craig played the lead very well. The film has many moral and life messages and is brilliantly shot. Check out the beach scenes they look awsome.

Rating 8.7 out of 10

VANTAGE POINT

I REALLY enjoyed this film, It feels different somehow, watching the events of the Presidential shooting from different view points and you are left teased waiting to find out the bigger picture as the final revelations are fantatsic. Well acted and a good cast. I look foward to the DVD.

Rating 8 out of 10

RAMBO

Bloody violent film that owes much visually to Saving Private Ryan. Maybe this film is Morally Bankrupt but I did laugh at the scenes where Sly gunned down 200 plus bad guys.

Rating 5 out of 10

JUMPER

I quite enjoyed this film and despite the critics (including the DOC KERMODE) I think this could be a good fanchise, the visuals were amazing.

Rating 6 out of 10

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Film of 2008 so far, Daniel Day Lewis deserved his Best Actor gong at the Oscars and visually this film is sensational and I must watch it again.

Rating 9.5 out of 10

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Stunning film and deserved Best Film gong at the Oscars. Probably my second favourite film of the year.

Rating 8.5 out of 10

SWEENY TODD

I enjoyed this film much more than I was expecting to. The music was excellent as well as the cast and Alana Rickman was in great form in this production.

Rating 7.5 out of 10

AVP 2 - REQUIEM

Nowhere near the original 4 Alien films or the first Predator film, but it was a bit of fun. HOWEVER THE ALIEN IN THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL SCENE WAS TAKING IT TOOOOO FAR!

Rating 4.5 out of 10

I AM LEGEND

Not bad but the zombie visuals are a bit weak but the empty new york sequences were impressive. WHAT WAS WITH THE BATMAN VS SUPERMAN poster?????? Will Smith was great and looking foward to the alternative ending dvd when it comes out.

Rating 5 out of 10

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Shakira Vs Britney Vs The Bee Gees

Saturday, 26. April 2008, 20:07:47

Shakira Vs Britney Vs The Bee Gees

This mash up strangely works really well.

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Battlestar Galactica Series 4 - the begining of the end?

Tuesday, 15. April 2008, 22:15:17

Tonight Sky One started Series 4 properly with a double treat of back to back episodes - just to get the juices flowing. Season 4, Episode 1: He That Believeth in Me sees Boltar taking refuge with some crazy religious nutcases and seeingly Boltar doing a "Jesus" like miracle. The final 4 (Who the frack is the 5th?) find themselves coming to terms with the revelation that they are Cylons.

Episode 2: Six of One. Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) face off with a gun between them, Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) says goodbye to the Galactica (What the frack!), violent conflict breaks out between the seven models aboard Cylon Basestar which is fracking mental and has a shocking conclusion, and Gaius Baltar (James Callis) is directly pulled into the "Final Five" situation which what looks to have been a strange encounter with one of the final 4, is he indeed the 5th "Final 5) or is this a red herring from the makers of the show. Somehow I feel the final revelation will be unpredicable and as much of a twist as one now expects from this show.

I hope however that it will not be Admiral Adama who will turn out to be the final 5th member as I think this wouldn't feel riht. There has been much speculation from day one that Adama was in fact a Cylon but somehow it could spoil things. Don't ask me why it is hard to explain.

My final verdict of episodes 1 and 2 is that it has got the juices bubbling and I am already looking forward to the 3rd episode next week, but probably will try and catch the repeats of the first episodes later this week as I feel my BG excitement has been re-awoken!

Thanks SKY ONE you are the best! Why didn't the BBC snatch this great Television?

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RAILROAD BY MAURICE GIBB - 1970

Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 17:35:51

What a Gem, this is a beautiful song!

Maurice Gibb doing his SWAMP THING during the begining of the 1970's. Maurice's solo album was shelved when the BeeGees got back together that year and recorded 2 Years On which spawned Lonely Days. I love Railroad because it is a basic country song but Maurice made it look so easy and check out the chorus - the harmony is amazing, so pure. It is true to say commercially Country music wasn't the Brother's Gibb's best selling stuff, ironically NOT until the Gibb penned Islands in the Stream became the biggest selling country song in history during the 1980's. Maurice was the COOL BeeGee, being the technical genius of the three Brothers, but he was also a fantastic singer who gets overlooked.

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