The more i think about this one the more I laugh. It is a bloody funny film about a dog show and the lives of the owners and handlers of some of the dogs. A star performance from the director who also plays the odd ball owner of one of the dogs. Watch out for…

Watching The Graduate for the umpteenth time. I just found out that the director, Mike Nichols, also directed the truly diabolical ‘Wolf’ (which from memory starred Jack Nicholson?). How the mighty fall – The Graduate must be one of the finest films ever made, Wolf, one of the worst? The Last Party 2000 – a…

Rach’s birthday on Sunday – we went out to Leeds Castle (that is actually in Kent) on Saturday. The beautiful grounds were even more spectacular with the spring flowers and blossoms. Sadly, my old buddies Peter Ustinov and Alistair Cooke both passed away in the last few days. There seems to be an appropriate symmetry…

Fog of War is a fascinating insight into the life and times of Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defence in the Kennedy/Johnson era. I believe that it won best doco at the Oscars. Rob’s an interesting chap – charismatic, cogent, and yet he seems to carry the weight of a considerable guilt. He sounds important warnings…

Recent Movies: City of God – fantastic film – extremely vibrant, shocking, watchable. The Barbarian Invasions – The first Denys Arcand film I’ve seen. It’s a thoughtful take on globalisation, death and change – moving and perceptive but it didn’t really ring my bell. It has prompted me to look out for Jesus of Montreal.…

Can’t believe that I forgot to write about Gus Van Sant’s amazing film Elephant . Controversial and shocking – get thee to a movie theatre and see it! Oh, and web geeks check out the web site source – ooh lovely CSS all the way – a product of Dreamweaver MX 2004 I suspect.

It’s true – Skype works . I spoke to my brother in Aus and the line was crystal clear – no issues at all. I recommend it for free calls to other skype users. No hassle to install, and after running a scan with Ad-aware I found no nasties related to skype, although I have…

Skype – free internet calls that work? With no spyware? You’re kidding me right? My bro Luke gave me the tip off about this software so I’m gonna get a headset and find out if it really works. Presently it’s in beta and is for Windows only. I also discovered an online store that I…

On Thursday Tash saw an ad in the Guardian’s entertainment guide that a documentary course was being held that weekend. We signed up because we saw that the remarkable Sorious Samura was one of the guest speakers. The course was hosted by Ron McCullagh of Insight News . It covered the basics of the technical…