Daily Archives: October 3, 2009

Two Sheets to the Wind: Top 5 Zombie Movies

  By Darren & Lottie | October 3, 2009 - 11:22 pm | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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It’s October, Halloween is just around the corner. So, what better time to resurrect Darren and Lottie’s Two Sheets to the Wind and remind you all that we haven’t taken a chainsaw to The Top Fives. Over the next few weeks we’ll be slashing our way through the swamp of horrors to deliver you our favourite movies that go bump in the night. We’ll open Dracula’s coffin, unmask the masked psycho killer and get our teeth into the torture movies, but first we’re going to use our delicious brains to introduce our Top Five Zombie Movies. Mmmm…braaaaains…. Darren’s Top Five Zombie Movies It’s no secret that horror is by far and away my favourite movie genre. From a very early age I was addicted to the fear factor. I remember cowering behind the sitting room door as Billy’s mom jammed the Gremlin into the microwave. I still cringe all these … There’s more →

The Friday Feeling – films out this week

  By Niall | October 3, 2009 - 9:30 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Note: This was due to be published yesterday but due to my ineptitude it’s only going up now. My apologies to Niall. - Darren It’s Friday again and that means it’s time to see what’s new in a cinema near you. Another week, another batch of Hollywood’s finest looking to part you from your hard earned cash so what’s on offer this week? First up is a re-release of a genre-defining movie enhanced for audiences using cinemas latest and greatest fad, ladies and gentlemen I give you Toy Story in 3-D. Pixar’s first feature film Toy Story was released in 1995 and heralded a new age of computer-generated animated movies. Starring a top-notch voice cast, including Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, and directed by Culch favourite (and current Chief Creative Officer at Walt Disney Studios) John Lasseter, Toy Story is a testament to the power of great story-telling. The plot … There’s more →

Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn’s Break Up

  By Darren Byrne | October 3, 2009 - 4:51 pm | Movies & TV, Music, The Culch
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Last year, Scarlett Johansson surprised a lot of people when she released her album of Tom Waits songs, not least of all me. I loved the album, Anywhere I Lay My Head – her smoky voice perfectly suited Waits tunes. Produced by Dave Sitek and with backing from Bowie, the album featured some of my most listened to tracks from last year. Her follow up, released last month, is a collection of original songs written by and recorded with Pete Yorn, called The Break Up Album and this theme runs right through it – misery, anger, loss and disappointment punctuate an album of reasonable tracks. The opening track is perhaps unfortunately the best track on the album. That’s not to take from the pleasantness of some of the other songs, but none of them reach the perfect sound of Relator.

Blaney’s Blarney Order

  By Lottie | October 3, 2009 - 4:35 pm | In The News, The Culch, The Internet
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Everyone from the local fruit & veg shop to the Barrack Obama uses Twitter these days and now the Court Systems appear to be jumping on the band-wagon. London High Court have made an unprecedented ruling by allowing a defendant in a case to be served with an injunction via micro-blogging site Twitter. The order is to be served on behalf of a blogger called Donal Blaney who is pursuing an unknown Twitter user. The user’s name is Blaney’sBlarney, the same name as the blog Blaney uses to express his political opinions. Blaney claims the user is posing as him and is breaching his copyright and intellectual property. The injunction, demanding that the imposter stops posting as Blaney and immediately identifies his or herself has been dubbed “Blaney’s Blarney Order”. As the order is from a different jurisdiction it is not binding on the Irish courts in the same way … There’s more →