Book: The Bourne Deception

Seventh in the series of the Robert Ludlum’s (now inspired) Jason Bourne stories, is the Bourne Deception from the pen of Eric Van Lustbader, and published in 2010 by Orion. You can pick it up for half price at the moment from a number of places including airports and rail stations.
It’s always odd reading a [...]

Movie: The Time Traveler’s Wife

Over the last few years, the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, became a world wide sensation and an Audio CD soon followed. It’s of little surprise then that a movie would be made of the story – which was released in 2009 under the same title, and we recently got to catch [...]

Audio: Galton & Simpson’s Half Hour

“Without us they’re a bunch of Jonathan Ross’s”
Galton & Simpson, the incredibly funny writers behind comedy legends, Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe & Son and many other shows including The Handyman, Tittertime (Frankie Howerd) and Up The Chastity Belt, have some all time classic sketches to their name.  Four of these classics are re-enacted and [...]

Listening To The Classic Radio Play, The Third Man

“Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen! In tonight’s play "The Third Man", we have a perfect setting for a murder mystery: post-war Europe, filled with spies, intrigue and black-markets!”
 

Reading The Book, How The Web Was Born

I just got through reading the fascinating book “How The Web Was Born”, by James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, and published by Oxford University Press (originally published in 2000 but republished in 2007). At 372 pages it takes some getting through but I was surprised how quickly the time went when reading it – it’s [...]

Discover Your Own David Brent With The Office, The Scripts

Hit BAFTA-winning comedy, The Office, from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and featuring acting talents of Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, and Lucy Davis, did a few things:

It re-invigorated the situation comedy and added a whole new genre – the Mockumentary (Documentary Comedy).
It introduced a new term into the dictionary “David Brent” – [...]