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The Breeders, Birmingham Academy, 13th April 2008
So here I am, and there I was - enjoying a sticky-floored Sunday evening at Birmingham's bijou Academy 2. I was there to see The Breeders and it was all thanks to my friend - macaroon chomping Friend-of-Garfield Jez Higgins - who generously gave me the ticket that he bought just seconds before he realised the gig clashed with his Wedding Anniversary. These things happen, and lucky for me they do. Thanks for the ticket, Jez and Nat. Hope you had a Happy Anniversary.I got to the venue fairly late as I'd spent most of the day recovering from the [...]
Orphanage in Bruges
Well, I didn't manage to catch the Jaws night at The Electric, but I did venture out to the picture palace twice in the last week.The Guillermo Del Toro produced, Juan Antonia Bayona helmed The Orphanage was rather good. More of a good old-fashioned ghost story than an out-and-out horror pic (despite one visceral scene that was a pure, popcorn-into-the-back-of-head-in-front shocker), it reminded me a bit of The Others. Haunting, atmospheric and melancholic-in-a-good-way, but - in my humble opinion - not really deserving the comparisons to Del Toro's sublime masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth.The other film was In Bruges, which was tremendous [...]
Jaws: Roy Scheider and his Brodyisms
Jaws star Roy Scheider not only gave the world some memorable performances but also some deeply inappropriate movie quotes

























