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Film The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn

The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn »

The production team behind this movie is a film buff’s wet dream: written by Dr Who supremo Steven Moffat and Attack the Block/Scott Pilgrim geek wunderkinds Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright; produced by LOTR/Hobbit genius Peter Jackson, and directed by the...

November 8 2011 / No comment / Read More »
The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In »

¡Hola mis amigos! Yo soy Pedro Almodóvar. You all know my movies – Matador, Volver, ¡Átame!  - movies about women & men lost in the dangerous maze of contacto sexual. Men who lose their minds in the heart of a woman....

October 8 2011 / No comment / Read More »
Tinker Tailor Soldier Why?

Tinker Tailor Soldier Why? »

Walking out of the darkness I turned to my wife and said the words that seemed to echo around me: “I didn’t get it.” George Smiley got it, at the top of the final reel. Sitting alone...

September 23 2011 / No comment / Read More »
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Milk Milk »

Milk Milk

Hey, Happy 3rd Birthday to this here webcomic!...

Jan 27 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol »

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

I thought I’d had enough of Ethan Hunt. The last time I saw him he was flashing his hollow grin at his smug team of IMF backslappers as he walked...

Jan 11 2012 / No comment / Read More »

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo »

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

First off, I haven’t read the book or seen the original movie, so I approached this as I would any other modern thriller. I expected...

Jan 10 2012 / 2 comments / Read More »

2012 Film Preview »

2012 Film Preview

I didn’t see anywhere near enough movies in 2011. In fact, I saw ten, which is pathetic. My aim is to at least double that...

Jan 2 2012 / 7 comments / Read More »

Happy New Year »

Happy New Year

Just a quick note to wish you all the best of British luck for 2012. It’s been the busiest year ever here at The...

Jan 1 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Count Floyd – Reggae Christmas Eve in Transylvania »

Count Floyd – Reggae Christmas Eve in Transylvania

Happy Christmas Roomyversians! I hope 2011 was a good year for you. I’ve got no complaints and here at Roomyverse it was a bumper...

Dec 19 2011 / No comment / Read More »

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A Dad's Autism Diary

  • The Friendship Penny
    May 31, 2011 | 10:00 pm

    Whoopsy, it’s been seven months since my last diary extract but, as usual, it feels like an eyeblink. All this time Eva’s school has been making a fantastic effort, with 20 hours a week one-to-one support, a social group to teach her the basics of interaction, strategies to help her engage other children at playtime, and always plenty of lines for her to say in stage productions. Where they could easily have sidelined her, they’ve almost made her a focal point, and she’s blossomed.

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Podcasts

Roy Budd, Jazz Pianist »

Roy Budd, Jazz PianistDur. 19 mins 42secs Roomybonce’s guide to Roy Budd, composer of ’70s scores from Get Carter to The Wild Geese, pitch perfect child prodigy, Lalo...

Apr 6 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

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  • Bye Bye Blue Peter
    December 16, 2011 | 4:32 pm

    No, it hasn’t gone completely, but the move to Salford, the loss of over a million viewers in a decade, and now the reduction to just a single weekly show, premiered on CBBC before a repeat on BBC1 the following day, must signal the death knell for what is still, supposedly, the BBC’s ‘Flagship’ children’s programme. John Noakes, Shep, Simon Groom, I grieve for thee.

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Net Remembering Rosie

Remembering Rosie

It’s been over two months now since Rosie Kilburn died. There’s a Facebook page dedicated to her memory, and her blog, of course, continued by her parents to keep on raising awareness & cash for cancer causes...

Nov 27, 2011 / More »
TV The Bachelor

The Bachelor

It’s September and time for the TV channels to reward us for coming back from our two weeks in the Algarve unscathed by unleashing the trash for our viewing pleasure. Spurious invented rivalry-laden...

Sep 6, 2011 / More »
Music Oxjam Walthamstow

Oxjam Walthamstow

When a friend told me he was organising a charity gig featuring Akira The Don, The Melting Ice Caps, and Barbarossa, my initial cheery agreement of support & attendance was instantaneously followed by...

Nov 8, 2011 / More »
X-Factor Blog X Factor Live – Semi Final: Motown

X Factor Live – Semi Final: Motown

Well, HMV have declared New Kitty in a Bin Bag the winner of this year’s X Factor, so that saves us all 4 hours of our lives on Saturday. And also helps us...

Dec 10, 2011 / More »
Words Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind

Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind

To prove how tightly my finger’s pressed on the literary pulse, here’s a book that hit big a decade ago and that might still have passed me by had my wife not persisted in throwing it...

Aug 24, 2011 / More »
Toons The Signal

The Signal

First new comic in just over six months. Woohoo! And I’ll be at my very first convention this weekend, so if you’re anywhere near Leeds do come over to Thought Bubble and say...

Nov 18, 2011 / More »
News We Are Three

We Are Three

Happy Birthday to us! And what a birthday it is. 26,000 of you stopped by last month to revel in Head Chef’s Halloween Countdown, in which he posted a new slice of scary pie every single day of...

Nov 11, 2011 / More »
Sport David Haye: An Apology, Round 2

David Haye: An Apology, Round 2

Has it really been two years since I apologised for daring to doubt David Haye’s boxing ability after he floored the humunculous Nikolai Valuev? Well, I apologise again, this time for daring to believe...

Jul 7, 2011 / More »

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