Category: media

Advertisers choose their words carefully in order to seem to say far more than they are actually saying. Here’s a good example from a poster I’ve seen on the street recently. It’s for some kind of weight loss cream. The poster has a woman holding the waistband of a pair of jeans that are obviously… Continue reading Advertising

It looks like the “Move America Forward” people weren’t very successful in their campaign to keep theatres from showing Fahrenheit 9/11. The film opened in the US on Friday and weekend estimates show it as number one at the box office over the last few days. It has currently made $21,958,000 and is the first… Continue reading Fahrenheit 9/11 Opens in US

Earlier in the year I mentioned Fox News correspondent John Gibson and his My Word segments that presented an astonishing view of the whole Andrew Gilligan and David Kelly affair. Well he’s on about it again. Earlier this week Ofcom reported their findings on his reports and they say that he had breached broadcast guidelines.… Continue reading John Gibson is an Idiot

Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the 2004 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This will hopefully make it more likely that the film will get a US distribution deal at some point before the election.

Michael Moore’s new film Fahrenheit 911 was shown in Cannes yesterday. Sounds like it’s going to be hot stuff well worth watching. Here are reviews from the BBC and the Guardian.

I was going to link to an interesting story in the Guardian about how Stelios Haji-Ioannou is planning to get into the music download business with EasyMusic but the article requires registration, so I won’t bother. Notice that on that web page, Stelios talks about the licensing being based on copyleft.

I watched the first episode of Tru Calling today. It seems to be a combination of Early Edition and Six Feet Under with a dash of Run Lola Run. That makes it pretty interesting, but I think that the writers will have to work hard prevent it getting repetitive. I’ll be watching for the next… Continue reading Tru Calling

While browsing my digital program guide today, I noticed that at at 18;50 this evening Sky Movies 6 is showing The Miracle of the Cards which is a film based on the Craig Shergold story. Looks pretty dreadful so I won’t be watching. But if you’re really bored this evening…

I went to see The Passion of the Christ. I enjoyed it immensely. You may be interested in reading my review. I thought that the cinema would be pretty quiet on a weekday afternoon. But there was some sort of outing from a local church. The cinema foyer was full of little old ladies who… Continue reading The Passion of the Christ

At a Canadian music awards festival on Sunday, Alanis Morissette wore a fake nude suit in protest against the censorship on US TV. The BBC has the story but there’s a better photo here