Category Archives: Movies

The future is today

Posted on Wednesday, 21. October 2015 by hmvh

Today is “Marty McFly Day” or, alternatively, “Back to the Future Day”. Today is the day when Doc and Marty will encounter hoverboards, flying cars, video conferencing, food hydrators, news drones, fingerprint readers, voice-controlled home automation and mosaic-view multi-channel large-screen flat-panel TV sets, motion controlled arcade games, power laces, augmented reality visors, holographic 3D movies, and a black Michael Jackson giving cooking advice — Max Headroom-style. Continue reading →

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Of dinosaurs and cinemas

Posted on Tuesday, 30. June 2015 by hmvh

Some movies you just have to see in the cinema, when they come out, munching overpriced popcorn while sitting in a large auditorium with a group of total strangers. It’s just a part of the experience. Jurassic World is a children’s movie. Continue reading →

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Han shot first

Posted on Sunday, 4. May 2014 by hmvh

It shouldn’t surprise me then that it would be on “Star Wars Day”, May the fourth, that — as a matter of sheer and utter coincidence — today would be the day when I start ripping my old VHS copies. Honestly, I didn’t realise this until later! Continue reading →

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Inglourious Basterds

Posted on Tuesday, 8. September 2009 by hmvh

It’ll be a war crime if Christoph Waltz doesn’t get an Oscar. Continue reading →

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