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Don’t kill books
It isn’t just reality TV, it is quite a bit of TV programming that is killing books and, thus, us. Think about the worst book you’ve ever read. Now remember that, with few exceptions, the movie is...
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Entertaining TV of 2013
With many of my favourite shows now back on air for 2014, except the ones that were cancelled, I thought it was a good time to recap what kept me entertained on the small screen in 2013. Many people...
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Music that lasts
I was recently having a discussion about Zeitgeist. No, not the concept of a spirit of the age or spirit of the time, I mean the 2007 album from the (not) Smashing Pumpkins. I’ve been a massive fan of...
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Is fiction actually fiction?
There has been an interesting duo of videos by PBS’ Ideas Chanel. Mike discusses some interesting concepts surrounding fiction, like the fact that fiction is as much real as it is made-up and vice...
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TV shows airing in order
Recently I wrote about the TV shows that have been keeping me entertained, or at least giving my eyeballs some much-needed exercise. One of the TV shows I’d failed to get into was a little sci-fi on...
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How Is Technology Changing TV Narrative?
This latest video from the Ideas Channel raises an interesting point about how there appears to be more complex narratives in TV shows now. Of course, there are several problems with this idea. The...
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Misleading packaging: why reviews matter
There is nothing worse than picking up a book, movie, whatever, expecting to be entertained based on the cover. The above example is the movie Far Cry, starring Til Schweiger, in what looks like a...
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The decline of cinema
There is only really one thing I miss about living in the city and that is going to the cinema. Of course, I’d miss that even more if there were movies worth shelling out this month’s mortgage...
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More guilty pleasures
Sometime during 1994 I bought one of my favourite albums of all time: Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins. Even today (boom-tish) that album sits proudly in my music collection and doesn’t sound...
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One of the annoying things about movies
With the recent spate of superhero movies it is easy to forget that not every movie has a superhero in it. Even the superhero films aren’t always about someone on steroids (Captain America) or weather...
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Average Movie Superhero
With the recent spate of superhero movies, it is easy to forget that not every movie has a superhero in it. Even the superhero films aren’t always about someone on steroids (Captain America) or...
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Book Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman My rating: 2 of 5 stars Being prophetic is really easy when you make a “kids these days” argument. Amusing...
View ArticleSubverting a story and falling on your face
When I sat down at my desk to start work the other day, one of my colleagues came to my cubicle to tell me how disappointed they were with the finale of Game of Thrones. They were soon joined by...
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There is a joke that started a month or two ago about how HBO subscriptions were going to cease once Game of Thrones concluded. The implication is that despite a long history of high-quality TV shows –...
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