After New York,
we headed to Reykjavik, Iceland. Intended only as a short stay and as a way of
breaking up the otherwise longer haul back to Earth (otherwise known as the “UK”),
Reykjavik turned out to be more of a snapshot into the country than anything
else.
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Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Kualoa Ranch: Revisited
Given the fact
that my last post on this awesome place was so very heavily Jurassic
Park-focused, I promised that I’d return to the popular, 4000-acre,
family-owned ranch that has served dozens upon dozens of movies since the 1950s.
In fact, even its Hall of Fame – a modest two walls’ worth of framed pictures –
tells only a tiny fraction of the movies it’s hosted over the last sixty-plus years. Sadly this post doesn’t involve an actual
revisit, but it does involve a little bit more on the movies
that have been filmed there as well as some interesting facts.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
A Whole New Dimension Of Ghostbusters
The
infamous wax museum Madame Tussauds turned out to be quite a stressful and
gruelling experience in the end. And no, it had nothing to do with our
walk-through of all the famous wax models from Johnny Depp to Kim Kardashian,
Anne Hathaway to Scarlett Johansson or Barrack Obama to Donald Trump (who we
avoided like we would spores, moulds and fungus), but more so to do with the action we were
thrust into in the second half of the tour: a Ghostbusters walk-through tour and
a revolutionary virtual reality experience. Okay, stressful and gruelling might
be a bit of a lie but saving the world – or the day – is no easy feat!
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I Love This Town
Does the title of this post sound familiar?
They're the words echoed by one of my favourite Ghostbusters – I have four in
total – from the 1984 classic when the guys are covered in marshmallow after
giving the giant sticky sailor what for on top of the apartment building now
dubbed “Spook Central.” And seeing as you all by now know I’m a huge fan of the
franchise, and having just been to the Big Apple itself, it won’t surprise you
to know that said-trip involved Ghostbusters quite a fair bit, as well as the
welcome onslaught of the smell of burnt marshmallow (not so much being covered
in it) and even that once-creepy building as mentioned where refrigerators and
kitchen counters just aren’t to be trusted.
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Friday, 23 June 2017
The Curious Rockies
After a few
days in the hugely undesirable city of Seattle, Vancouver came as a breath of
fresh air. Sure it’s a city like most others, but the real difference is it’s
in Canada. There might only be a marginal difference in terms of friendliness
between Americans and Canadians, with the latter being the friendlier, but such
a small detail makes all the difference.
LA And Seattle
Monday, 19 June 2017
A Curious Wookie At Disneyland And Universal Studios
If you know us
personally (that’s me and Sian), then you’ll have no doubt attended our wedding
earlier this year. That means you know we’re a right pair of Disney buffs - and
film buffs too. So naturally, during our visit to LA we visited both Disneyland
and Universal Studios.
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Saturday, 10 June 2017
Wonder Woman Review
The past year hasn't seen much luck for the DCEU. That's not to say last year's
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad were financial
catastrophes, but critical ones they were, with their biggest downfalls being
their focus on future movies rather than themselves (in a bid of course to
catch up with the superior MCU), and with narratives made painfully-incoherent
through some generally bad writing and post-editing. And though we've familiarised
ourselves with the Wonder Woman and Justice League trailers over the past six
or so months, it seemed that all hope was already lost; that the franchise
would never do any better than Man of Steel and was doomsday'd to fail.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Review
For a film
franchise based on a long-time popular Disneyland attraction, Pirates of the Caribbean really know how
to flog a dead horse (that’s actually not a bad subtitle), with its fifth
instalment Dead Men Tell No Tales having
now arrived at cinema shores worldwide.
Get Out Review
When it comes
to the horror genre it’s more than fair to say that originality is dead, at
least more so in concept than execution. Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out might be no exception, but it
does in part offer a semi-interesting approach to the age-old get out of that house alive formula while
providing an acceptable level of comedy that doesn’t compromise the scares.
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