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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Just to let all you guys know I'll be heading back to Brum for the weekender. And tomorrow I should be going along to viddy a a band called Bluestar at the Bar Academy (Thursday March 27th) Hopefully they should be the stars of the next paranoidandroid music video. I've not seem 'em before and I don't know them, but their demo is nice, and they come highly recommended, so hopefully I'll see some of you there.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Rock and Roll All Night Long
With these top gigs coming soon...... The band that used to be Team Rocket and are now called TAXI are playing at the Dublin Castle, in the delightfully cosmopolitan area of Camden on Sunday the 16th of May. And the elusive pranksters that are Venkman are playing the following Sunday, the 23rd of May at some place called HQ which is apparently by Snow Hill Station, Birmingham. Venkkman gigs are as rare as good Ben Affleck movies, so it should be worth checking out. Not sure whats going on with all these Sunday night gigs, maybe its the new Saturday night or something. Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Van Helsing
Stephen "Mummy's Boy" Summers announces the start of silly season with this action/adventure/horror nonsense. From now on, until October, it's loud noises and people dodging badly rendered CGI monsters all the way. Van Helsing features Hugh Jackman as the title character, Dracula's nemesis, here reinvented as the Vatican's own version of James Bond, with a licence to kill monsters aand ghouls across Europe. The Universal crypt is raided once again and not only Dracula, but the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster are dusted off and presented in their shiny new computer generated bodies. At times the film resembles a homage to the Universal monster movies, albeit one adapted for the Playstation 2, but for the vampire sections its generally just rips off Bram Stoker's Dracula. The plot is nonsense and pretty incoherent, and most of the actors are so swamped by the special effects they tend to merge into the unsubstantial but good-looking scenery, with the guy who plays Dracula being particularly unmemorable. Kate Beckinsale probably make the best impression, all pouting and wearing a corset in a feisty way, and cheerfully hamming it all up with a ludicrous estern-european accent. If you feel like popping your brain in a jar of formaldehyde for two hours, the film is entertaining enough for a wet saturday afternoon, once the football season's finished and there's no more Jeff Stelling on Soccer Saturday, obviously.  |
