Daily Archives: March 19, 2009

10 Reasons Why I Won’t Be Going to the Meteors Next Year

  By Darren Byrne | March 19, 2009 - 11:13 pm | Books, Events, Music, The Culch, TV
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1. Amanda Byram Do I really need to explain this one? The woman is void of personality. No, I lie. She has personality. She has the personality of dirty middle aged sweaty bachelor, rather than that of a 35 year old woman. Every single man who came onto the screens, who came onto the stage, who came anywhere near the damn auditorium she greeted with a Phwoar! or some sleezy remark. Show a bit of class and stop behaving like a skank, woman. Bearing in mind that the majority of the show’s audience were young teens, surely she should have behaved a little better than that. Eugh! She makes me want to wretch. 2. The Stewards Lottie asked me repeatedly if I was ok. I was - I just had a confused look on my face every time I watched the stewards try to deal with the public. No, more … There’s more →

Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) by Ironik ft Chipmunk & Elton John

  By Will | March 19, 2009 - 10:59 pm | Music, The Culch
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Title : Ironik ft Chipmunk & Elton John Artist : Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) Release : 27-April-2009 The 140 character review Good use of the Elton John sample, but it takes all of the focus from the rapping. Might be just balance but end up not heeding Ironik Will Knott and now your reviews…

Holy bad marketing, Spiderman!

  By Maxi Cane | March 19, 2009 - 10:24 pm | Comics, Movies & TV, Random Whimsy
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So, Spiderman 4 has been given a release date for May 2011. I was never a huge Spiderman or Sam Raimi fan so I’m a little hopeful that he’ll look at what has been done with Comic book and Superhero movies since the last one and up his game. In a case of hot body/weird face, maybe Kirstin Dunst should be reconsidered as she hasn’t yet confirmed that she’ll return as Mary Jane. Personally I could name a dozen natural hot red heads that would fill her shoes perfectly. Anyway, I just happened to stumble across some of the taglines for the first Spiderman movie back in 2002. For those who don’t know, a tag line is it’s a line that tries to sum up the entire plot, theme and tone of a movie in a single sentence. Some of the lines are so cringe worthy that you’d think they … There’s more →

Celeb News 19/03/09

  By Lottie | March 19, 2009 - 7:24 pm | Gossip
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Holy Schmoly Gossip Girls. Gossip Girl co-stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester cover a new issue of Rolling Stone magazine while seductively sharing an ice cream cone together. Justin Timberlake really is a man for all seasons. Sigh! He successfully transitioned from a questionably styled boy bander to a musically respected pop star. He has opened up two restaurants in Manhattan, Southern Hospitality and Destino, that have both managed to do well. Ha has a hugely successful clothing line, William Rast. So what next I hear you ask? Tequila of course. Yip, the man who brought sexy back has come up with his own brand named 901. The reason behind the numeric name? “901 is that time of night when your evening is ending, but your night is just beginning. It is also a subtle nod to his hometown,” says the singer’s spokesperson, referring to the area code for Memphis, … There’s more →

Gotta catch all the repetitive strain injury!

  By TheChrisD | March 19, 2009 - 3:09 pm | Games, The Culch
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It’s that time again, where yet another instalment of the Pokémon franchise is released for the masses of kids, not-so-kids, and adults who are still madly addicted to the game (me included) to rush out and waste their money on as soon as it’s released. Well, nearly everyone… Why is the franchise still going after, what is it now, 14 years? Well, according to the title screen it is © 1995 - 2009, so yes it’s been around for quite a while. It may be that the hardcore fans insist on picking up the latest versions whenever they can, even though it’s the same thing over and over, just in a different setting with a different pool of Pokémon to play you main storyline adventure out with. One thing I do want to point out, is that Platinum is only being released in the US this Sunday (with the exception … There’s more →

Movie News 19/03/09

  By Darren Byrne | March 19, 2009 - 10:58 am | In The News, Movies & TV, The Culch
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So, because I was in recovery mode for much of yesterday I couldn’t find time to post the Movie News. Sorry… Firstly, spare a thought for the family of Natasha Richardson today. Natasha, aged 45, passed away last night as a result of injuries sustained in her skiing accident a few days ago. She leave behind her husband, Liam Neeson, two children, Michael and Daniel and is also survived by her mother Vanessa Redgrave. Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones are set to star in The Company Men, a drama about the impact that a corporate downsizing has on both its casualties and survivors. They join Ben Affleck, who plays a corporate hotshot whose fancy lifestyle vanishes after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a drywall installer who gives him a construction job, while Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a principled man who struggles with … There’s more →

Clean up television

  By Grandad | March 19, 2009 - 10:30 am | TV
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I have a simple plan to clean up the standard of programmes on television. Ban any program that in any way promotes the use of a mobile phone or any other kind of phone in. Just think – no more of those cheap and tacky ‘celebrity knockout’ type programmes?  No more eejits dancing on ice or on anything for that matter?  No more Late Late Show!  Heh! That’s that sorted.

let’s call it a failer

  By Sinead Keogh | March 19, 2009 - 9:11 am | Movies & TV
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It was going to be a movie review. It really was. I shushed the people beside me and concentrated hard. I didn’t buy popcorn lest I chomp my way through a pivotal piece of dialogue and miss it entirely. If my first Culch post was going to be a movie review, then it was going to be damn accurate. Sadly, after twenty minutes of trailers it seemed that there was something more important to say. Namely, what the hell is with twenty minutes of trailers? I am not that old, but I can remember a time when a trailer was a teaser, the merest tantalising glimpse of what a movie might be. Snippets of dialogue. A five-second, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it flash of some vital scene. Not a hint at the twist, just the implied promise that there was one. An actor’s name in block text. A date of release, miles in the … There’s more →