August 2010
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Hooliganism | 'The English Disease'
Has football hooliganism really gone away? Documentary looking at the role of technology and how it plays its part in the fight against what has become known as ‘The English Disease’.Written, produced and edited by Dan Andrews. I helped with a large portion of the camera work, and the odd cup of tea.
June 2010
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WatchOrganised and edited by Sedge Beswick and Harriet Pinnington, Saul Morgan is the photographer, and Haydon Hill and Ciaron Vieyra are the models. Video shot and edited by yours truely.
Music by Golden Silvers
April 2010
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Milk | How Fat Cats Get the Cream
Eight-and-a-half minute documentary exploring the challenges facing dairy farmers. Entirely self-shot (apart from the piece to camera), filmed over a couple of weeks and edited in a few days. Produced as final-year assessment work for university. Features an interview with newly elected MP Mark Spencer.
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
– [Emma Goldman]
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Say Cheese!
“Cheese (noun): a solid food prepared from pressed curds of milk.”
For many people, that’s all cheese really is. Something you have in a sandwich, or perhaps (unforgivably) squeeze from a tube. Many people have no idea how it’s made, or what the real artisan product might taste like.
Martin Moyden is a Shropshire farmer and cheese-maker. His family have been rearing...
March 2010
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Norman Radio | February 2010
I’ve been at odds as to whether I should upload links to these shows, but it’s job-hunting season and everyone loves a cheesy radio voice.
I did two shows this year for ‘Norman’ Radio (Nottingham Online Radio Music and News). It’s basically a two-week period where the Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism turns into a working radio station. We broadcast shows...
“The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply...”
– Soichiro Honda, 1906-1991
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Exit Through the Gift Shop | Film Review
These days anything even loosely associated with the name ‘Banksy’ attracts a furore of attention. His work now fetching hundreds of thousands at auction. For years the identity of this elusive street ‘artist’ has been kept under wraps to the general public, which has only added hype to his work. He represents a medley of contradictions, controversy, satire and...
February 2010
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde
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Brown Beer With Mud & Twigs In It
Brown beer with mud and twigs in it. It’s ever-so chic. Okay chic may not be the word to describe it quite yet, but real beer (or ale to be precise) is coming back in a big way. Long-gone are the days where tasteless fizzy lager makes you seem suave and sophisticated. That was way before most of us were born anyway. Real-ale is like wine. It’s time to sharpen-up and get educated...
“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
– Ambrose Bierce
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Karckzma Pod Zbojem | Restaurant Review
Nope, I can’t pronounce it either. In fact the world of Polish cuisine was completely alien to me before sampling this fantastic hidden gem.
When it comes to food the nationalities to choose from are certainly varied. Italian, Chinese, and Indian restaurants are two-a-penny in Nottingham, but I’d never seen let alone ventured into a Polish restaurant before. I mean what is it the...
“Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.”
– George Saunders, (last words).
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WatchAnother news-day package produced as part of coursework.
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The city of Nottingham is renowned for many...
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | Film Review
Ian Dury and The Blockheads were the first to coin the phrase ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’, and pinned it to the itineraries of rockers and young bohemians for all eternity. Frontman and lyricist Dury rapidly rose to fame as a trend-setter for the punk era, releasing iconic tracks such as Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, whatever it was that meant.
Andy Serkis takes the lead role as...
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January 2010
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“Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you’re trying to think of.”
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It Might Get Loud | Film Review
Football fans, albeit the slightly more obsessive ones, often fantasise about their perfect team: A team made up of the world’s finest players, where money is no object and a geriatric Swede doesn’t come along to mess it all up.
One of the nearest things for fans of rock music is to dream of who they’d most like hear jam and play music. Davis Guggenheim (director of An...
December 2009
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“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in...”
– Bob Thaves
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The Limits of Control | Film Review
Jim Jarmusch is a director that is renowned for his cult indie following. Film for aficionados, his pictures grace the screens of independent cinemas across the world, wooing cinema fanatics with gorgeous sequences and rich tapestries of light and colour. His last work as a director featured Bill Murray in 2005. It was very well received, leaving The Limits O Control a hotly anticipated release....
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“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
November 2009
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Brown Betty's | St James St, Nottingham
The mid-week lunch is vastly underrated. It has the potential to be something very special, but commonly ends-up as a flaccid affair consisting of squashed, clingfilm-clad butties that do little to leaven the brevity of your day. Often just confirming the fact that tuna mayonnaise and banana do little to complement each other when crushed between a copy of the metro, and the crumby nether...
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of...”
– Robert Benchley
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Taking Woodstock | Film Review
Woodstock was an event of epic proportions, changing the face of the live music scene and going down in history as a hedonistic revolution in free-love and liberalism. On the bill were artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joe Cocker and Santana. Biblical figures in musical terms, at an event comparable to the feeding of the 5,000. Though of course...
“Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally...”
– Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
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GameCity 2009 | The Round Up
Last weekend saw the culmination of Game City 2009, the UK’s premier gaming event. In it’s third year Game City turned heads with their record breaking zombie flash-mob (see the video here). Returning to the city for a fourth year, things took a slightly more low-key approach than last year’s Halloween shenanigans.
Market Square played host to two massive arched tents, which...
October 2009
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“Whizzing backwards in my wheelie chair to get a book from the other side of the...”
– Anon
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Fantastic Mr Fox | Film Review
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story is one of the last to have resisted the allure of cinema adaptation. With an all-star British and American cast, it’s expected to deliver, and whilst it might not tow the party line, ‘Fantastic’ is certainly the operative word.
First and fore mostly, Fantastic Mr Fox shouldn’t be treated as a children’s film....
“He looks as if someone has stretched luncheon meat over a toad.”
– Russell Howard on BNP Leader Nick Griffin
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The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus | Film Review
Heath Ledger’s last film, The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus, has finally made it to the big screen. It’s fair to say that the young star’s untimely death threw a spanner in the works. For months after Ledger’s demise, what could arguably be described as Terry Gilliam’s pièce de résistance was thought to be lost to dusty archives forever.
Alas the story was saved. In part,...
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Bat For Lashes | Live Review
Every now and again, an artist appears and blows you away. Dark and mysterious Natasha Khan, otherwise known as ‘Bat for Lashes,’ is one of those people.
Playing to a highly eclectic audience, Nottingham’s Rock City was packed with people clamouring to get a fix of her infectious symphonies.
At home with new-age hippies, Khan creates a sound that thankfully, doesn’t warrant the use of...
August 2009
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“I’m sure wherever my dad is, he’s looking down on us.
He’s...”
– Jack Whitehall
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time...”
– Miss Piggy
July 2009
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Gearing-Up for Change?
Fresh from the success of Beijing, British Cycling looked like it was set for good time. But nine months later, has anything changed?
GBR’s success at the Beijing Olympics came as a surprise to many, but none more-so than our grumps. For decades the Olympics have provided grumbling-material for discontented old-farts, but this, it seems, is a thing of the past.
Belittlers across the...
“What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?”
– Irv Kupcinet
June 2009
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Sugar | Film Review
Sports films are usually pretty hit and miss. Often they’re pumped full of action and predictable Hollywood drama. Sugar disregards these conventions, taking a more relaxed and low key approach. It’s so different from most other sports films that it actually makes you sit up and pay attention.
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Sugar tells the story of Miguel...
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Athlete | Interview for NG-Magazine.com
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Athlete | Interview for NG-Magazine.com from Alex Ward on Vimeo. Joel & Steve from Athlete talk to us about the inspiration behind their records, their new material, and the move to their new label. Pleasantly punctuated by clips from their latest gig at Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms.
Written, Directed & Edited by Alex Ward
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“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of...”
– Marcel Proust
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Athlete | Live Review
After releasing their second album Tourist, Athlete somewhat fell-off the radar. The release of their third album, Beyond the Neighbourhood, proved to be as low-key as the songs, and the band members having blossoming young families has possibly made them take a step back from music. Now signed to Fiction records and with a huge UK tour ahead of them, Athlete are as popular as ever.
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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Looking for Eric | Film Review
A comedy-drama is a difficult thing to pull off. Here in the UK, they often turn out as comedies with a bit of drama, or drama with a bit of comedy. Looking for Eric strikes a perfect balance. It’s side-splittingly funny, but will also bring tears of compassion to your eyes.
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Looking for Eric is the story of a lonely postman, devoid of his wife, and...