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Fond Of Food And Hilarious Comedy?

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Fond Of Food And Hilarious Comedy?

if you are then run out and buy the new DVD from Dylan Moran - Like Totally, make yourselves a few toasties, crack open a beer / cider / airfix glue; whatever you're into and prepare to nearly die laughing. I've been giggling my head off, screwing it back on and then laughing it off again all weekend.

'Like Totally' is a follow up to Dylan's first full stand-up show; Monster back in 2004. Everyone gets a touch of stick in 'Like Totally' especially the Yanks, his fellow Irish, the English and the Germans who he describes as sounding "like typewriters eating tinfoil while being kicked downstairs"...

Don't be put off by that review on the link up above from Sexy Librarian. She's clearly not well...
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Johnny Was 2006. Starring Colin Stewart.

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Johnny Was. 2006
^ Click title to watch trailer
Wikipedia wrote:Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian Yardie crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs.
Read the full synopsis of the film here. The original soundtrack for this film was written and produced by Adrian Sherwood. I am rapidly becoming a massive fan of this man's work and would urge you all to check him out. Very nice on the ear if you're into Dub or Reggae and it excels if you've smoked a few joints...

One of the supporting cast in this movie is a man called Colin Stewart. He's from Derry and an old pal of mine. I inadvertantly got him into acting back in 2000 via The Playhouse Theatre, David Gothard's creative writing masterclasses and Jim Lecky's Shakespeare company.

Colin has gone on to act in several big productions since. Back in 2000 I was the person who advised him to get into acting because if they ever made a movie about Michael Stipe of REM, he'd be a prime candidate for the role. They're the spitting image of each other (or they were back then). I met him and his pal Jimmy Irwine at Café Java just down the road from the theatre on my lunchbreak. I was half-joking but it's paid off for Colin and although he had no formal training*, He's doing very well for himself these days. Some guys have all the luck eh? Who knows? I might get back into acting at some point if they ever need a fat Irish actor who looks like a retired IRA volunteer...

Nah, in all fairness to Colin, he deserves the breaks and I'm much more interested in campaigning, community arts activism, new media arts production and writing these days...

Johnny Was 2006: Director: Mark Hammond. Writer: Brendan Foley. Political Action, Thriller. Crime. Starring: Vinnie Jones, Samantha Mumba, Roger Daltrey, Lennox Lewis, Colin Stewart. Music by Adrian Sherwood.

* Colin Stewart is now a seasoned and professional actor and Sensitize © / http://www.upstaterenegadeproductions.com wish him every continued success :mrgreen: ...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Sherwood
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CHILDREN OF MEN (UK 2006)

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Children Of Men (UK 2006)...

You all have to see this one people. My recommendations for it go off even my scale. Powerful story set 20 years from now in England, where humanity has become infertile and the youngest person on the planet gets assassinated. This film is an adaptation of a book by P.D. James and sports a cast including Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Danny Huston and the lovely Michael Caine as an Activist & Stoner who grows his own hybrid weed called; Strawberry Cough - more later *...

This film tackles what the world will be like in 2027, where immigrants are herded up into buses or shot in the street. Where marshal law rules supreme and the activists have guns and differing motives for fighting back. Into it all comes a woman called Kee (could be a play on the words 'chi' or 'ki' which both mean 'life') played by; Claire-Hope Ashitey who carries the potential for humanity's salvation...

This is a moving piece of cinema (out on DVD - Monday 15th January, 2007) with an exceptional soundtrack, superb camerawork and enough pyrotechnics to make Hollywood blush...

I wrote this little Haiku-style poem yesterday inspired by my first viewing of Children Of Men:-

'strawberry cough' .
By Louis P. Burns aka Lugh © 2007. All Rights Reserved.
  • watch children of men
    see that the world is like this
    smoke 'strawberry cough'...
One final note and it's particularly for Psi but I suppose we all think the same. The closing song is performed by Jarvis Cocker and is called; Running The World. The chorus goes:-

"Cunts are still running the world.
Cunts are still running the world."


Watch the video for this song on YouTube here:- Jarvis Cocker - (Cunts Are Still) Running The World. That should give you all a suss on where this film is at politically :wink: and I don't wanna sound smug or as if I know it all, but that song is on a par with Working Class Hero by John Lennon in my opinion...

Peace, Love & Resistance...
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Essential Audio / Video...

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Essential Audio / Video...
  • It's a series of images and pictures from different wars, set to the anthemic and haunting song; On The Turning Away by Pink Floyd. Very effective... Click here to read the lyrics.
Hyperlink is to Google / YouTube & lyrics.com:-
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http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloy ... gaway.html
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Good News; Cliq, Delph & Psi :D ...

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Good News; Cliq, Delph & Psi :D ...
  • Right. I'll do my usual, long-winded intro with this next post and piss you all off just by meandering, using words and phrases that get you all mildly interested at first, but by the time you're halfway through this post you'll be screaming things like;

    'Lugh!!!'

    Or;

    'You Bastard!!! Hurry Up!!!'

    I'll even toss words like 'movie' and 'adapted to screenplay by' or "Monty! You terrible cunt!" in... Oh. Or how about this one; "I feel like a pig's shat in my head"?

    Some of you are fidgeting. Aren't you? You're squirming about in your seats thinking;

    'hello. Lugh's talking about; Withnail and I. That damn fine UK film starring; Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Michael Elphick and Ralph Brown that is intensely beautiful and positively hilarious.'

    You'd be right of course. I am, but only slightly. It's actually the writer of Withnail and I - Bruce Robinson that I'm referring to. He has bought the rights to adapt 'The Rum Diary' by Hunter S. Thompson and it's scheduled for release some time in 2008.

    I know Cliqtech and Delph are big fans of Hunter S. Thompson and that Psi, like me, is absolutely insane for the wonderful Withnail and I. So, there ya'z go folks. Something good to look forward to.

    I can't wait for this one people :D ...

    Read the IMDB blurb on this movie adaptation of The Rum Diary here...
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Withnail-I-Paul ... UTF8&s=dvd
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rum-Diary-Bloom ... F8&s=books
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/
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Lift The 18+ Cert on; This Is England by Shane Meadows...

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Lift The 18+ Cert on; This Is England by Shane Meadows
  • If you haven't already been to see; This Is England by Shane Meadows, I would urge that you take the opportunity to do so and soon. This film is a powerful representation of 80's Britain (England) revealing how a group of friends get torn apart by racism and focusing on the story of one young lad; Shaun played by Thomas Turgoose, whose dad has been killed out in the Falklands.

    Shaun is being bullied at school, is grieving the loss of his father, can't communicate properly with his mother and becomes friends with some local skinheads; Woody played by Joseph Gilgun, Lol played by Vicky McClure and Milky played by Andrew Shim who all take him under their wing and show him a good time. It's important to point out that none of these characters are in any way racist and indeed are from various backgrounds.

    There are some very touching scenes where the characters open up and explain their different perspectives. All of which set the scene before things change for the worse with the arrival of Combo played by Stephen Graham. Graham's performance throughout This Is England is both breath-taking and harrowing. I think it fair enough to say that this performance should earn him a few awards further down the line...

    So, here we have a UK film from the man behind Dead Man's Shoes (2004) and it's getting censored despite being an educational journey through bullying and racism and how they damage everything in their path. Censors like Sue Clark of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) say it is because of the use of bad language and scenes of violence but venues like; The Watershed Media Centre in Bristol have overthrown this decision and brought the age of viewing down to 15+. To read more about this click here.

    I believe the public should be allowed to decide for themselves whether; This Is England should have an 18+ certificate slapped on it because it is an absolute masterpiece in film-making and social commentary. Other great features in; This Is England include the continuity, costumes, settings and superb soundtrack featuring a lot of classic Ska and Reggae tunes that add to the overall authenticity of the piece...

    This Is England is in cinemas now...
Hyperlinks in this post are to;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480025/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2129938/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318543/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566049/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793532/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334318/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQD7vd3B5A0
http://www.watershed.co.uk/cgi-bin/WebO ... rshed.woa/
http://www.shanemeadows.co.uk/
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Shane Meadows on The Culture Show

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Shane Meadows on The Culture Show
  • revealing his experiences and thoughts on his latest film; This Is England.

    This clip also includes discussion about the controversial 18+ certificate.
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Is this fawcking England?

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Prizewinner film "This is England" directed by Shane Meadows shows a few racist scenes perpetrated by skinheads against "Pakis" without remorse. I own probably the only copy of this film in Argentina because I asked a friend of mine to bring it for me from England, and I wondered why the local distributors never had it on their lists.

Watch the film and you'll guess why. One other possibility is that it is a "too English" film, whose purpose is not really understandable by outsiders (like me?).

I only hope this is NOT England nowadays; it shows a derelict middle class that wouldn't care for the education of their young people who slowly turn into useless, junky, filthy, violent and corrupted vagrant squats that have nothing to do but to drink plenty of alcohol, smoke reefers, attack foreigners, destroy houses, wreck motorcars, scribble on walls and other "white power" entertainments, if we don't mention the murder of Whitey.

Or at least that is the message that I read between lines. I only watched it once on the past week-end; perhaps a second or third time might help to lessen a bit the bad impression I've got of this really shocking film which I regard well classified as 18+. The intersped Malvinas-Falklands 1982 conflict images alluding Shaun's father, a dead hero there, are perhaps too many and not too within the film's scope.
"...my dreams were all my own; i accounted for them to nobody; they
were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
mary shelley in her author's introduction to "frankestein", 1831.
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Re: Is this fawcking England?

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Argie wrote:Prizewinner film "This is England" directed by Shane Meadows shows a few racist scenes perpetrated by skinheads against "Pakis" without remorse. I own probably the only copy of this film in Argentina because I asked a friend of mine to bring it for me from England, and I wondered why the local distributors never had it on their lists.
Hi Salvador :)

Great to see you back here on Sensitize. You're right when you say that the film has racist content, but the director/writer - Shane Meadows was addressing the sad history of racism in England/UK and the era in which he grew up (early 80's). There was a terrible amount of racist crime going on at that time. To be honest, racism is on the rise again now with attacks on Asians/Muslims due to the recent conflicts with Afghanistan and Iraq. I accept that there are extemists within the Islamic community who do need to be dealt with, but random attacks on ethnic citizens will only fan the flames of hatred and draw more and more young people into conflict. That's what Shane Meadows is saying with This Is England. He too sees hatred, ignorance and racism raising its ugly head once more.
Argie wrote:Watch the film and you'll guess why. One other possibility is that it is a "too English" film, whose purpose is not really understandable by outsiders (like me?).
That's debatable though. Margaret Thatcher's government committed troops to an illegal and ridiculous 'war' with Argentina over the Falkland Islands and in doing so, exported mindless butchery, hatred and savagery abroad, to the shores of your land.

The central character (Shaun) in This Is England lost his father in that 'war'. On his journey of discovery in this film he firstly turns to hate crimes as a reaction to the grief he felt because he believed his father died at the hands of people of a different culture/race. However, as the film moves on, he comes around to the realisation that hatred is wrong and England (back then) was corrupt. He sees that his father died for nothing.

The scene where he throws the British/English flag into the sea while the cover version of; Please, Please, Please. Let Me Get What I Want (originally by The Smiths) is playing on the filmscore, summed up his transition away from hatred and towards a hopeful future in my opinion.
Argie wrote:I only hope this is NOT England nowadays; it shows a derelict middle class that wouldn't care for the education of their young people who slowly turn into useless, junky, filthy, violent and corrupted vagrant squats that have nothing to do but to drink plenty of alcohol, smoke reefers, attack foreigners, destroy houses, wreck motorcars, scribble on walls and other "white power" entertainments, if we don't mention the murder of Whitey.
Like I said earlier, This Is England is a depiction of England back in the early 80's under Thatcher's reign of terror. There still are, and probably always will be, pockets of hate in society. Addressing and confronting it is the most effective way of controlling it though.
Argie wrote:Or at least that is the message that I read between lines. I only watched it once on the past week-end; perhaps a second or third time might help to lessen a bit the bad impression I've got of this really shocking film which I regard well classified as 18+. The intersped Malvinas-Falklands 1982 conflict images alluding Shaun's father, a dead hero there, are perhaps too many and not too within the film's scope.
Yeah. This Is England is worth watching a few time Sal. You say you think the 18+ certificate is justified, but couldn't it be viewed that a film that tackles hatred and racism, should be made available to the very people (young people) who can, if not monitored, fall in with bad crowds and become racist criminals?
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'bout fawking 1980's England

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Thank you boss for your comments. If you don't mind I'll copy here a few other ideas I pointed out by private e-mail to you today. This will explain, for the time being, a bit more of my present prejudice to our site readers, in line with your commentary.

quote
Bad companies around a lonely boy, picked by his school elder colleagues served a path to his change of pure boyish conduct into a violent, adult-like, attitude; a sign of the times. Shaun's acting is very short of absolute perfection, bearing in mind his age, and to my humble view he should be given a special personal award for it.

Perhaps I need to watch the film once or twice again to diminish the bad feelings that this powerfulm film raised on me. But then, I agree that it is a film worth to watch, especially by parents with school-age children.
unquote

I might add that I wouldn't allow minors to watch the film, unless 16+ and accompanied by both their parents. Minors of such age ought to have instant advice should they need it, and their parents may have to explain the pros and cons of each situation to clarify meanings.

Fortunately 11 year-old Shaun's tit-sucking - or other petting situations - was not shown. This is a clear signal of the director's good taste...Thumbs up for him!

Argie
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were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

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THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
A review by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh - Independent Media Producer.

I've never liked cowboy and western films. All that testosterone flying around all over the place, men spitting in buckets or on the floor. Or hitting each other over the head with bottles. Ten gallon hats. Horses falling over or the whacked out notion that killing Native Americans was somehow cool, always made me angry.

Not forgetting that cowboy and western films are probably single-handedly responsible for some very sick people's love of guns. Well, them and war movies of course. Add to this that they frequently got screened on miserable wet saturdays when I was young. So I associate them with damp and dreary days growing up in rain-beaten Derry, here in Northern Ireland (shudders).

All of that aside. Two westerns have recently blown my cowboy and western-movie hating mind. One is; No Country For Old Men which is simply brilliant. The other; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford written (screenplay) and directed by Andrew Dominik, and adapted from the novel by Ron Hansen should get every award available in my opinion.

Internet Movie database (IMdb) details here:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0443680/

Superb acting from all of the cast of; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. With particular reference to Brad Pitt as Jesse James, Casey Affleck as Robert Ford and Sam Rockwell as Charley Ford. Utterly gripping performances from them all.

The cinematography in; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is something to truly behold. A genuinely dazzling experience. Beautiful exterior panoramic / wide angle nature shots capturing the colder regions and landscapes of the U.S. in combination with highly authentic and excellent interior shots. Those set around the dinner table or homesteads so real I could feel all the tension being portrayed and at one point I thought I might get shot myself. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my drift.

My last but indeed not least homage to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has to be for the exceptional soundtrack. Even if you're like me and don't like westerns generally. Any film that has the very lovely and wonderful Mr. Nick Cave (of; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) playing the part of a bar room story-telling folk singer doing his much slower rendition of a song originally made popular by Shane McGowan and The Pogues (on; Rum, Sodomy and the Lash back in the 80's) has to be worth watching. Right? Yip. I thought you'd agree. Cave's appearance just added to the sheer pleasure of watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The scene in which he appears, is one of the most memorable and heartbreaking scenes of the film. Some kind soul has seen fit to post this clip up to YouTube, although I bet it gets pulled for copyright infringement. In the meantime, you can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikam-i4_J_k

I could rant (and frequently do as I'm sure many will testify to if asked) more about The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford but I'll close for now by saying: If you don't go and buy a copy of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on DVD, then there is something very seriously wrong with you and you should seek the help of caring and well intended professionals immediately ;-) ...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Purchasing details);

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_d_h ... esse+james

Enjoy ;-) ...

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Shane Meadows' Somers Town Wins Top Edinburgh Award.

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Shane Meadows' Somers Town Wins Top Edinburgh Award:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0 ... 67,00.html

Link forwarded to me from a writer friend of mine - Brian Gillespie.
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Re: Land Of The Blind

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fq0-QIgJt0

A modern day masterpiece. This entire section is just a sample of the storyline but by no means defines it. I first watched it nearly 2 years ago (nice one Brian) and it has remained etched on my mind ever since. A constant source of both inspiration and perspective.

I challenge other creatives not to be inspired to put pen to paper or brush to canvas after watching Land of the Blind. I honestly believe you can do nothing but be inspired to disharge art and make something new. To summon from out of nowhere, reflections of the world we're in right now...
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Radiohead - House of Cards

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Radiohead - House of Cards:



John Hughes just emailed me this link to Radiohead's video for House of Cards and I fully agree with him that it is exceptional. I'd say anyone with a keen eye for art and image manipulation, or CGI representations will be facinated by how it all came about. You can read more about the video's production here;

http://www.ateaseweb.com/2008/05/10/rad ... n-florida/

Powerful stuff :)

Lugh...
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Terminator 4 - Salvation (Scheduled Release - 2009)

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Terminator 4 - Salvation (Scheduled Release - 2009)

I am drooling with anticipation about this movie. I've been a fan of the Terminator movies since they came out in 1984 and I love the spin-off series (Terminator - The Sarah Connor's Chronicles) now into its second season.

According to the trailer which you can watch on YouTube by hitting the red title up above, the storyline has somehow changed and the world at Judgement Day (2018) is different from the one foretold by Sarah Connors, mother of John Connors - leader of the Resistance. Now humanity is outnumbered by the machines that eventually adapt and perfect themselves into Terminator cyborgs (outwardly human) ... To read more about Terminator - Salvation then please click on the next link:

http://terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com/

THE END BEGINS
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