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Film Roundup – April 2012

April was quite a tough month. This roundup isn’t about discussing that but somehow amongst the stressful times, I found time to watch 16 films. Not too bad at all. As usual, here are my thoughts. 1st: Midnight in Paris – I wasn’t too keen on this back in January but I enjoyed it more [...]

Film Roundup – March 2012

The regular monthly excuse: life got away from me. Anyone who follows me on Twitter will have noticed that. Still, a mere 12 films to cover this month. Never fear: April looks like a busy film watching month already! On with the roundup: 1st: Starsky and Hutch: Not the old school variety, the Ben Stiller [...]

Film Roundup – February 2012

Bit of a delay on the film roundup front again. Sorry about that. Guess it’s becoming a bit of a regular thing now. I’ve been exceptionally busy but I’ve finally got round to this! A mere 17 films this month. Bit low given it’s winter but there’s been some not bad TV of late which [...]

Film Roundup – January 2012

Another late film roundup for the month, my bad. The start of February has been hectic and annoyingly not in the satisfying way either! Anyway, 19 films were watched in January. Not too shabby. 3rd: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (cinema) – The first cinema trip of the year. How exciting! Good way to start the [...]

My impressions of the HP Pavilion DV7

So, HP rather kindly sent me a laptop to try out and write about on this blog. I’ll admit this now: my hardware knowledge is not what it used to be. Once upon a time, I built my own PCs, regularly upgraded components and overclocked processors faster than you could say overclocked processor. In recent [...]