Red Hot Chilli Project

Tuesday 23 February 2010

A Single Man

This film really has style, Tom Ford's attention to detail really pays off (I'm loving the 60s style at the moment what with the third season of Mad Men currently on BBC Four). Colin Firth's performance is excellent and was deservedly awarded a BAFTA for it at the weekend. Glad I made the effort to head down to the Showroom in the snow the other day to see it.

— Andy

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Monday 22 February 2010

Up In the Air

For a moment I thought I'd found myself in a George Clooney led rom-com, but thankfully Up In the Air just didn't go there; instead a very funny and cutting commentary on US corporate thinking. It dipped a little in the third act, but quickly picked up and didn't disappoint. If you liked the director's earlier film Thank You For Smoking then you'll like this.

— Andy

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Sunday 24 January 2010

arc_twitter v0.2

I’ve just released arc_twitter version 0.2 for Textpattern. New features include the ability to add a prefix and/or suffix to updates made to the Twitter website when you post a new article and a new arc_twitter_search tag. Full details, documentation and the download link can be found on the plugin’s page.

Just a quick note to those upgrading from a previous version of the plugin: a default tweet prefix is set when the plugin is installed. If you want to change or remove this just update the plugin’s preferences on your site. You can of course change this on an article-by-article basis by selecting ‘Options’ below the Update Twitter thing on the ‘Write’ tab.

— Andy

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Sunday 04 October 2009

Broken Embraces

Not Almodóvar’s finest, but enjoyable all the same. Perhaps a little too long and lacking the humour of his previous films. That said I loved the numerous film references throughout and the ending was great.

— Andy

Tags: almodóvar, drama, in cinemas, spain

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Monday 01 June 2009

Star Trek

J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie gets a big thumbs up from me; much to my surprise I actually enjoyed a Star Trek film! Chris Pine (who I’d never heard of before) was an excellent Captain Kirk.

— Andy

Tags: chris_pine, hollywood, in cinemas, recommended, sci-fi, star_trek, usa

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