I have been reading to my daughter Amelia since she was a month old. I haven’t bothered to find out what one should read to a small baby but I know that Amelia appreciates bright colours and severely exaggerated expression. The other day I read her the information appearing on a tourist brochure of Devon (where we were holidaying) and she was enthralled. I managed to make the safety rules one should adhere to when swimming sound as exciting as a Bruce Willis action film. Read more on BrazenMom…
Archive for the ‘Review’ Category
What to read to a four-month-old
Sunday, October 24th, 2010Inglourious Basterds scalps its way to brilliance
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film has received a crazy mix of love and hate from the media – a reaction not uncommon when the cult film director is up for debate. I watched Tarantino’s latest with high hopes and the film most certainly did not disappoint. It was always a great idea to subvert the outcome of World War Two by making an African American, a Jewish woman and a band of Nazi-killing Jews led by an American gentile hailing from the mountains of Tennessee, the ones to destroy Hitler and his psychotic entourage. Read more on Rant!…
Orphan: a review
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan recently ended a severely dry spell of horror film boredom. I am a horror junkie and nothing of late has been spine chillingly awesome. Gruesome … yes. Scary … sort of. Predictable … of course. Orphan is a psychological horror as opposed to the supernatural kind and the reason the film is successful is because it is a character-driven story that is played out exceedingly well by the cast. Read more on Rant!…
Paradise Lost at Islington Academy
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The cold, dark night outside the O2 Academy in Islington waits resignedly for an excited energy to accost its consciousness. Fans soon penetrate the evening’s calm with the precise intention of witnessing a great performance by metal masters of doom and gloom, Paradise Lost. Read more on Clink…
Fu Manchu: Signs of Infinite Power album review
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Author Sam Rohmer’s evil criminal genius is the namesake for hard rock band Fu Manchu, which has been infiltrating the minds of skaters and stoners with its heavy fuzz riffs for almost two decades. Fu Manchu is gearing for the launch of its eleventh studio album, Signs of Infinite Power, to be released on October 19. Read more on Clink…
Mötley Crüe: Dr. Feelgood Deluxe Edition album review
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Mötley Crüe is revisiting the success of 1989’s Dr. Feelgood with the launch of a double-CD Deluxe Edition in celebration of the album’s twentieth anniversary. Dr. Feelgood reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1989 and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. “Dr Feelgood” and “Kickstart My Heart” were both nominated for Grammy awards for Best Hard Rock Performance. Thumbs up to the glam rockers! The 80s would not have been the same without the tattooed, high-heeled, make-uped motley crew who spent many a drug induced hour cavorting, on their motorcycles, through strip-clubs and jail cells: debauchery deluxe. Read more on Clink…
Candy Cakes in Covent Garden
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Walking into Candy Cakes in Covent Garden is like walking into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. The brilliant colours of the candy cake icing bombard the eye-balls in a blinding blast of luminescent beauty. Read more on Rant!…
Testament at Shepherds Bush Empire
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Cast your mind back to 1983: as you cough your way through the hairspray of the teased-haired, spandex-wearing, glitter-infused conglomeration of glam-metallers, you will stumble upon a band called Testament – born in America to the town of California. 27 years later the band exists as an attestation to longevity: testified by fans, both young and old, who congregated at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire to witness thrash metal at its very best. Read more on Clink…
Cell
Friday, August 7th, 2009
It was a smart idea to take the apparatus glued to the ear of the world and turn it into a terrorist weapon that turns people into primitive animalistic zombie-like creatures ready to shred fellow crazies as well as the ‘still-humans’ to pieces. Most readers of Cell will never look at their phones in the same way again. Steven King’s exploration of the darker side of human nature is as disturbing in Cell as it is in all of his other novels. Read more on Rant!…
Cake and Snogs aplenty
Friday, August 7th, 2009
I have two favourite places in South Kensington – one of them is called Snog. No, not saliva swapping, but a far superior orgasmic experience. Snog is a café serving fat-free frozen yoghurt made with organic dairy ingredients, found just around the corner from South Ken tube station at 32 Thurloe Place. Read more on Rant!…
