Max Musson – Honoured to accept Freedom of Dublin Award!
I heard last night that Bob Geldof, the obnoxious, aging, rock music has-been, has announce he is returning his Freedom of Dublin Award on the grounds that the same honour was awarded to the Burmese leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. I’m not really bothered by the internal politics of a far-eastern state, but apparently, old Bob, now only famous for his dishevelled appearance, has got his ‘knickers’ in a right ‘twist’ that any national leader should have the common sense to…
Elysium
By Heordredenn: Film Review: Elysium, written, directed and co-produced by Neill Blomkamp, released August 2013. It is 2154. The Earth is an overpopulated, impoverished, environmentally degraded ruin, with civilization falling apart. But high above a vast, silver-white wheel structure hangs in the sky, the last island of peace, order and civilization, the great orbital habitat Elysium, now home to the global elite of the cosmopolitan super-rich. That is the premise of South African director Neill…