Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Oct 9, 2010, 4:02 pm
Hi guys, been meaning to update the blog a little more often! Anyway, as I’m sure you’re aware, today sees the first of two landmark anniversaries for John Lennon this year. Dec 9 will mark the 30th anniversary of Lennon’s death, and I’m sure there’ll be much celebration of the legendary B...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Aug 27, 2010, 7:00 pm
Hi there folks, must start updating my blog more regularly! Anyway… like many anime fans around the world, I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Satoshi Kon, director of a number of important anime films. Born in 1963, Kon started out illustrating manga before moving on to animation a...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Aug 10, 2010, 7:56 pm
Hi there… haven’t updated in over a week, got a review of Inception and a couple of books lined up… hope to post more regularly. For now, here’s another trailer round-up. Marvel's The Avengers is set to begin production next February, and is apparently being shot in 3D. Here’s the recent t...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Aug 2, 2010, 8:03 pm
Guillermo Del Toro announced last week that his next project will be an adaptation of seminal horror author H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness. According to an exclusive report from Deadline New York, the Pan’s Labyrinth/Hellboy director intends to shoot the film in 3D, with the help ...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Aug 1, 2010, 10:33 am
Last week, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced that it was to axe the UK Film Council, a move which has met with strong criticism in some quarters. Founded in 2000, the National Lottery-funded government body has since backed hundreds of British films, including notable pro...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Jul 30, 2010, 7:55 pm
Welcome to part two of my new-and-recent-trailers review… as I mentioned in the first part, I’m not necessarily that keen on seeing all of these movies, but one way or another they’ve perked my interest. Anyway, let’s take a look… Low-budget sci-fi horror Monsters caused something of a sti...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Jul 30, 2010, 12:29 pm
Hi again… thought I’d take a look at some new and recent trailers – though not all necessarily for films I’m all that keen on catching. So consider this a kind of ‘trailer review’! Okay, off we go with part one: David Fincher’s The Social Network is based on Ben Mezrich's book The Acci...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Hypnotic Navel - Jul 28, 2010, 8:22 am
Hello! Welcome to the (pretentiously-named) ‘Hypnotic Navel’, which will cover film, music and art - generally speaking of a ‘pop culture’ nature but certainly not exclusively so! My old blog covered similar ground, but I aim to make a fresh start with a more concise and less rambling blogâ€...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Mar 31, 2010, 9:20 am
The sheer joy of silliness... There are some movies that are just so darn out-of-this-world fantastic, they positively have to be proudly championed. I’m talking about films so ridiculously entertaining, they demand to be discussed in lengthy philosophical debates and honoured with plaques and st...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Mar 27, 2010, 10:58 am
Yet another round-up of those we have lost… I’m trying to catch up with a load of old news at the moment, please bear with me… I’m sure many of you are aware of the sad passing of Corey Haim, the Canadian-born actor who became a teen sensation during the 1980s, mainly thanks to his role as ...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Mar 21, 2010, 1:41 am
I’m back, baby. Hi folks (all three of you), I haven’t updated the blog in three weeks, lots of news to catch up on and this Oscars recap is pretty tardy as it is, so let’s get on with it…the 82nd Academy Awards took place on Mar 7 at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, with Steve Martin and Alec ...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Mar 1, 2010, 10:52 pm
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