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Time Warp

Posted Thursday June 28, 2007 by Tom Charman | Comments [1213]
Tags: apple , film , website , work

Unfairly Unmentioned

A quick catch up is in order, on some of the more interesting things that I should have been writing about recently…

Posted Saturday March 3, 2007 by Tom Charman | Comments [66]
Tags: film , games , stargate , tv , wii

Feeding the Meme

Ack! I’ve been tagged! Get it off me, quick! Also, important news for those subscribing to our RSS feeds.

Posted Thursday February 1, 2007 by Tom Charman | Comments [2]
Tags: film , food , memes , music , work

Disappointments

Posted Tuesday November 21, 2006 by Tom Charman | Comments [449]
Tags: bsg , christmas , doctorwho , film , leonardianplayers , torchwood

Bits and Bobs

Posted Wednesday November 15, 2006 by Tom Charman | Comments [422]
Tags: bsg , film , politics

Halo Halo I don’t know why I say Halo

The upcoming Halo movie got itself a new director recently, but lost a script. My hit-sensing senses are still wavering. There’s no reason why a Halo film shouldn’t rock to high heaven but people screw things up all the time.

Posted Thursday August 10, 2006 by Tom Charman | Comments [451]
Tags: film , games , halo

Forgive me, Superman

I apologise. I remember in my innocent youth, I accused you of being a boring character. Boy scout, dull, goody goody, lacking angst and pain and all that stuff that cool characters like Batman had.

Posted Friday June 30, 2006 by Tom Charman | Comments [356]
Tags: film

The wonders of June

June 1st: DS Lite released in Australia
2nd: iinet installs DSLAMs in Cheltenham and starts transfering customers to faster broadband. We buy a faster modem.

Posted Wednesday May 31, 2006 by Andy Cocker | Comments [26]
Tags: australia , ds , dvd , film , games , ipod , tv

Witherspoon Alert

This year’s Oscars seem to be getting a bit of flak online. And by “getting a bit of flak”, I mean, every article about them I read is reasonably positive but starts by saying “This year’s Oscars seem to be getting a bit of flak.”

Posted Tuesday March 7, 2006 by Tom Charman | Comments [8]
Tags: film , jonstewart , keiraknightley

Summer Break

It’s been a quiet time around the Grapefruit office while everyone’s away on summer break. Or at least, that sounds like a good excuse for the lack of things around here.

Posted Friday January 27, 2006 by Tom Charman | Comments [514]
Tags: bsg , ds , film , games , tv , xmen

Jackson talks Halo

Peter Jackson was interviewed recently by Paul Fischer about the upcoming Halo film (which he’s producing) and gave some really straightforward replies.

Posted Tuesday December 6, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments
Tags: film , games , halo , xmen

Harry Potter and th

Bloody sound issues bloody packed cinema bloody quiet bloody broken bloody one stinking free ticket bloody half-way though bloody opening night bloody near-riot bloody stupid bloody.

Posted Thursday December 1, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [13]
Tags: film

Jimbo Rides Again

As the world anxiously awaits my in-depth review of Serenity, sensible folk know there’s only one reviewer who can really be counted on as completely reliable.

Posted Thursday September 29, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [10]
Tags: film , josswhedon

Mirror, Mirror

I noticed today an interesting upcoming movie that I hadn’t previously heard of, while reading a fascinating TIME interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon.

Posted Tuesday September 27, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [1]
Tags: film , josswhedon

Returning the Sky

A few weeks back, I was checking all my nifty RSS feeds when I noticed that Whedonesque.com were announcing preview screenings of the Firefly movie, Serenity, in Victoria. I rushed over (in an internet sort of way) and booked me some tickets.

Posted Thursday September 1, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [720]
Tags: film , firefly , josswhedon

Documentary Evidence

Damn that Michael Moore. He’s spoiled my innocence. I used to be able to watch documentaries and think I’d learned something.

Posted Sunday June 5, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [1313]
Tags: documentary , film , politics , tv

Sweet

I’m typing this through my iMac. Oh, the whiteness. Oh, the speediness.

Posted Friday May 20, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [8]
Tags: apple , film , imac

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Sith?

I apologise for the steady stream of Doctor Who reviews, to all of you who don’t give a rat’s arse.

Posted Thursday May 19, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [1]
Tags: doctorwho , film , imac , starwars , tv

Evolution

Well, the switch from Movable Type to Textpattern, and merging of the blogs, seemed to go well.

Posted Wednesday April 27, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [435]
Tags: film , website

Amazon

The other day, with the help of that magical thing called the internet, I managed to turn my DVD player into a region free DVD player. I was really excited until I realised I didn’t have any non-region-four DVDs.

Posted Friday April 22, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [440]
Tags: dvd , film

Sniping

Didn’t like Blade: Trinity? Well, guess what: nor did Wesley Snipes.

Posted Thursday April 21, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [437]
Tags: film

Shakespeare

If there’s a book equivalent of DVDs, it’s these awesome Shakespeare books. And I don’t mean those lame, large-format blue ones we had at school. I’m talking the ‘Arden Shakespeare’ series.

Posted Sunday April 10, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comment [341]
Tags: books , film

The Return of Famke

Famke Janssen will be returning for X-Men 3. This is pretty good news, on account of her insane hotness, but I’m still a bit worried. I loved the first two films, and the news that Bryan Singer would not be returning for the third was quite a shock.

Posted Wednesday April 6, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comment [337]
Tags: film , josswhedon , xmen

The Non-Who, Non-Apple Post

Those areas of my brain have been quarantined as I write this post…

Posted Thursday March 17, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [324]
Tags: er , film , starwars , tv

Mostly Harmless

What is it with Physics undergraduates and bad “Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything” jokes? It’s like they think if they just mention ‘42’ in any given sentence, it suddenly becomes funny…

Posted Sunday March 13, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [15]
Tags: books , doctorwho , film , imac , tv

Passing Thoughts

All the time, I see things about the place and think — I should write about that in my weblog. And then I forget them. So I won’t be mentioning any of those today.

Posted Friday March 4, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [5]
Tags: bsg , film , ipod , tv , uni

Snails

I saw a deeply tragic thing the other day. Coming home from work a shade early, just before peak hour, I saw two snails starting to leg it across the footpath outside the train station. They weren’t quite in the middle of the pavement yet, but come 5:30 they were going to be half way.

Posted Saturday January 8, 2005 by Tom Charman | Comments [3]
Tags: film , life

It’s the End…

The apocalyptic visions of tsunami damage are fostering a sort of quiet sadness in me. After terrorist attacks, there’s a level of anger involved, but this time there’s nothing to say, nothing to do, except help people.

Posted Thursday December 30, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [4]
Tags: film , life

Urgent News Concerning Keira Knightley and Regency Dresses

Keira Knightley will be starring in a Working Title adaptation of Pride and Prejudice as Elizabeth Bennett!

Posted Friday September 24, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [20]
Tags: film , keiraknightley

Urgent news concerning Jessica Alba and spandex.

Some exciting news has been brought to my attention: Jessica Alba is in Fantastic Four.

Posted Friday September 24, 2004 by Andy Cocker | Comments [55]
Tags: film , jessicaalba

Shiny

Mmmmm. Always pays to pop by JB Hi-Fi. Certain box sets of definitive classic movie trilogies might have been released early.

Posted Tuesday September 21, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [13]
Tags: film , starwars , tv

Star Wars Geekery

The release of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD approaches, and I decided that details of any changes must have surfaced on the net. And of course they have.

Posted Saturday September 11, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [924]
Tags: dvd , film , starwars

Holiday’s Over

Well, that was fun. I’ve achieved a lot since I last went to University. I’ve also spent a lot of time loafing. In the future, I’d like to work things so that I at least get paid for my loafing.

Posted Monday July 26, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [9]
Tags: documentary , film , website

Countdown

One week before Uni. It’s been a while. It goes without saying that an ideal life would involve some kind of never ending switching between home and various exciting but not-too-threatening foreign locales.

Posted Sunday July 18, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [17]
Tags: film

Best. Potter. Film. Ever.

Okay, so there wasn’t much competition. In fact, close to none. But damn, that was fun.

Posted Sunday June 20, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [323]
Tags: film

Cheltenham

There’s been broken glass spread over the car park at Cheltenham station for AGES. I’ll swear it was there before I left.

Posted Tuesday June 15, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [302]
Tags: film , website

Groovy

Saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 last night… Good, but nowhere near as rollicking and crazy. Kind of like a muted, thoughtful response to the first one.

Posted Wednesday May 26, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [530]
Tags: film , firefox , website

Informed Troy

For a review of Troy from someone who actually knows something about Homer, anyone in Melbourne should check out Peter Craven’s review in The Saturday Age.

Posted Saturday May 22, 2004 by Tom Charman | Comments [6]
Tags: film

1.5 minute entry

I’m at Calgary Bus Station, and it’s quite cold. Andy and I just walked through some snow to get here.

Posted Saturday November 29, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [333]
Tags: canada , film , travel

Canada

Damn these US customs people. I had no problem at all but they’re so INTIMIDATING that I sweated more fluid than I thought was possible.

Posted Wednesday November 26, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [333]
Tags: film , travel , usa

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best. Title. Ever.

Posted Friday November 7, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [1]
Tags: film

bits and pieces

I’m not a fan of washing dishes. It’s not a horrible job, it’s just slow. You’d think someone would invent a machine to do it. A dish washing machine. What’s that? They have?

Posted Wednesday November 5, 2003 by Andy Cocker | Comments [5]
Tags: film , life

So, do you feel older?

What maybe, one day back in the mists of time, started off as a serious question must now have gone through so many ironic re-statements that I’m not sure people know why they ask any more, or even if they’re being ironic themselves.

Posted Tuesday October 14, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [284]
Tags: film , life

Huzzah!

Tomorrow is September 11. And we all know what that means…

Posted Thursday September 11, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [16]
Tags: books , film , website

Sympathy for the Devil

Due to an unfortunate series of coincidences, the Charman household has ended up with a copy of Daredevil.

Posted Sunday September 7, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [1]
Tags: books , film , uni

Errata good day.

There is an error at the NTGF website. It promises the next episode within 56 hours. That should read 560, or possibly 5600. I’m not sure.

Posted Wednesday August 13, 2003 by Jackson Kearney | Comments [7]
Tags: film , games , ntgf

Glum and Happy

After spending a rather irritating portion of yesterday rebuilding the whole fricking articles database for grapefruit, it was refreshing and enjoyable today to install MoveableType weblog managing software instead.

Posted Monday July 28, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [11]
Tags: film , uni , website

…and I’m spent.

Ah… A new layout, and more importantly some new reviews to go with it! Hopefully in the future Andy and I will catch up with our Angel and Buffy reviews…

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [1]
Tags: angel , film , website

It’s 3pm, time for bed.

All I’ve get stopping from a month of holidays is one exam next Thursday.

Posted Friday June 20, 2003 by Andy Cocker | Comments [1]
Tags: film , games , uni

It’s 3am, time for bed.

This looks like it’s a regular event. However gentle viewers, tonight I get to sleep.

Posted Thursday June 19, 2003 by Andy Cocker | Comments [2]
Tags: dvd , film , games

Rumour Mill

While watching the special features on the X-Men DVD, I cam across the amusing story of a kid who had come across an X-Men filming site, snuck in and deduced from the labels on some huge pieces of stainless steel that there would be a massive, satellite dish shaped laser in the film.

Posted Thursday June 19, 2003 by Tom Charman | Comments [4]
Tags: dvd , film , xmen