Carl O' Connor

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Wallace & Gromit: Twenty cracking years!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 7:34 am
Claymation duo enjoy two decades of slapstick chuckles! Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit are soon to celebrate twenty years of Wensleydale-and-wacky-invention fun, their first short, A Grand Da...
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Angelina Jolie Not a Fan of Obama

Carl O' Connor Nov 29, 2009, 6:29 am
Maybe Obama's not a fan of her.
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Spoiler Chat: Will Kyle MacLachlan Die on Desperate Housewives? Get the Answer!

Carl O' Connor Nov 29, 2009, 6:29 am
He should die and be reborn in a new series of Twin Peaks! :D
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The Not-New Book Review: Film Noir: The Making Of Blade Runner.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 8:04 am
Paul M. Sammon/Orion Books/1996. In 1980, Paul M. Sammon began work on a series of articles for Cinefantastique magazine, the subject of which concerned a forthcoming adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s...
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Asterix is 50! Sesame Street is 40! Viz is 30!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 6:18 pm
Plucky Gaul, Muppet Show forerunner and filthy rag celebrate anniversaries! Wonderous French comic series Asterix recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, having originally appeared in the first edi...
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Edward Woodward 1930 - 2009.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 6:42 pm
Sad farewell to a solid actor. Much-loved actor Edward Woodward passed away Monday (Nov 16) at the Royal Cornwall Hospital aged 79. He had been suffering from health problems for some time. Born in S...
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Christmas comes early!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 3:50 pm
To atone for dragging Halloween out for so long, here’s an early Christmas movie review! Film Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol (Disney Digital 3-D). Director Robert Zemeckis is perhaps best kn...
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Liz Hurley's diet: no coffee, one meal a day & vodka

Carl O' Connor Nov 14, 2009, 3:38 pm
Isn't that the wino diet?
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2012 Review

Carl O' Connor Nov 14, 2009, 3:35 pm
I. Don't. Want. To. See. This. Movie.
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(Incredibly belated) Halloween Special Part IV: The Frighten... en... enen... ening!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 1:43 pm
Chuck’s Culture Carnival: extending Halloween well into November! Romero remake trailer! In the first CCC Halloween Special some weeks back I posted a few recent horror trailers, but here’s one ...
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(Belated) Halloween Special Part III: The Chillening!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 3:07 am
Look, its still Halloween season, alright? Kinda. A New Blair Witch? Low-budget horror The Blair Witch Project proved a huge hit on its release in 1999. It was not an entirely original film - the pr...
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Halloween Special Part II: The Returnening!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 12:30 am
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work Hammer Festival in...
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Man Arrested For Being Naked In Own Home

Carl O' Connor Oct 26, 2009, 9:28 pm
What next? "Man arrested for breathing"?
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Balloon Boy's Mother -- It Was All a Hoax

Carl O' Connor Oct 26, 2009, 9:27 pm
A hoax? You don't say! ;)
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Ricky Gervais to Host Golden Globe Awards

Carl O' Connor Oct 26, 2009, 9:24 pm
That is mental! ;)
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2012 Marketing Campaign Scaring the Public

Carl O' Connor Oct 26, 2009, 9:23 pm
A new Roland Emmerich film scares me!
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Halloween Special Part I: The Dreadening!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 4:53 pm
Ghouls and goblins and ghosts, oh my! *vincent price voice* Wmhahaha! Welcome to the first edition of my three-part Halloween season special! I’ll be covering things of a rather horrific nature ove...
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I pity the fool who doesn't check out this A-Team pic!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 5:31 pm
I ain't getting on no first official still! Er... It may have epitomised the gung-ho reactionary politics of it’s time, but unrealistic sanitized violence fest The A-Team has long remained a st...
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...Must be that time of year again!

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 6:03 pm
Teaser for Season Of The Witch, and new trailer for The Wolfman! Well, shops have been filling up with skeleton, ghost, pumpkin and other paranormal paraphernalia for the past month here… yes indee...
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Heaven Just Got A Little More Vic Mizzy

Carl O' Connor Oct 20, 2009, 3:33 pm
RIP Vic. The Addams Family - what a theme tune!
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RIP: Stephen Gately and Ludovic Kennedy.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 6:08 pm
Stephen Gately 1976 – 2009. Ludovic Kennedy 1919 – 2009. I can’t claim to be a big fan of their particular brand of pop music, but the passing of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately at the tender age o...
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And now for something completely similar: Python At 40, Part 2.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 3:52 pm
"That rabbit's dynamite!" In 1971, with the success of the first two series of the Flying Circus, talk arose of a Python movie. This suggestion came from an unlikely source; Victor Lownes, head o...
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This parrot wot I purchased not 'alf an 'our ago: Python At 40, Part 1.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 4:56 pm
Gumbys and pepperpots and silly walks, oh my! It is approximately 11:00 PM on October 5th, 1969. Over on BBC One now the very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is beginning, and on this...
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Live Music Review: Pixies, Olympia Theatre, Dublin 30th Sep 09

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 2:53 am
First Doolittle show was as loud as hell… Its twenty years since the release of the Pixies seminal Doolittle album, and the band are acknowledging the anniversary with a number of European and U.S....
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Recurring Nightmare...

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 11:48 am
Teaser for Elm St. remake hits the web… but is it a case of same old same old? The first trailer for next year’s A Nightmare On Elm Street remake has gone online. With Samuel Bayer, director of m...
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Carl O' Connor has rated Delineating Art 10 out of 10

Carl O' Connor - Fantastic art blog!
Oct 2, 2009, 4:42 pm

Movie News: MGM in crisis, Fincher's Facebook flick - and Cronenberg to re-remake The Fly?!?

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 10:49 pm
Movie studio shaken and stirred… The first rule of Facebook… Be afraid, etc. Venerable film company MGM is apparently undergoing something of a financial crisis, and may even be facing bankruptcy...
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Film Review: District 9.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 8:36 pm
For the most part, it’s pretty fookin’ good! (As usual, beware spoilers!) A couple of years back, Neill Blomkamp was all set to helm his first full-length feature film; an adaptation of the vide...
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Sean Connery set for Indy return

Carl O' Connor Sep 18, 2009, 7:17 pm
The last one was crap.
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Obituaries: Patrick Swayze and Henry Gibson.

Carl O' Connor posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 5:44 pm
Patrick Swayze 1952 – 2009. Henry Gibson 1935 – 2009. Hi folks… once again, it's a rather downbeat edition of the Culture Carnival, with two popular actors succumbing to canc...
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