Taming Entertainment

Quiet Time and Site Move

2008-04-02T14:42:00.002+01:00

Greetings everyone!Firstly I would like to apologise for the apparent lack of effort on the site recently, however I can assure you that plenty of effort has been going on...just not here!We have been building a new site and it's almost ready to go, we are just fighting with domain registrations to get tamingentertainment.co.uk pointing to our new host. In the meantime please bounce over to the

Darkest Hour - Live @ The Barfly, Brighton 24/01/08

2008-02-04T12:52:00.001Z

Bursting forth from the speakers comes the ethereal death metal destruction of Darkest Hour, as they lay waste to all ear drums that stand before them. These and other such clichés will be deployed to describe just how jaw-dropping Darkest Hour are.They open with ‘Doomsayer’, the first song from the latest offering, ‘Deliver Us’. The use of a sombre, clean, picked guitar intro destroyed by a

Not Just Music ... M&S Music

2008-01-28T18:11:00.000Z

What’s the most annoying thing about commercial TV? What turns a twenty-two minute program into a half hour program? Or a fourty five minute program into an hour?Commercials. Yes, commercials. The bane of watching non-BBC tv, the bane of listening to non-BBC radio, the bane of public broadcasting of any sort for those trying to enjoy a program about Communism, perhaps. More annoying than

The Time Machine

2008-01-22T07:00:00.000Z

by H.G. Wells(New York: Bantam Classics, 1991)Paperback, 115 Pages, Science FictionISBN: 0553213512From the Cover: When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700 – and everything had changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these

A Man Of Culture

2008-01-17T17:14:00.000Z

In the Age of the Enlightenment, around the mid 18th Century, many men (and some women) of education where not just of one profession or another; they were not either lawyers or architects: they were jacks of all trades.Thomas Jefferson, the third president of an independent America, was also a horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, palaeontologist, author, inventor and the founder

Hannibal Rising

2008-01-15T14:00:00.000Z

"Hannibal, you do not honor the human pecking order. You’re always hurting the bullies!"Hannibal Rising is a surprisingly good movie that succeeds in providing a convincing and satisfying back-story to Hannibal Lecter when, by all expectations, it should have failed.The rule of sequels applies double for prequels. I cannot think of many good prequel movies. In fact the prequel movie

28 Weeks Later

2008-01-15T10:02:00.000Z

Plagued by bad acting, bad writing, and poor production choices 28 Weeks Later is an unfortunate argument against giving sequels to new talent. Worse than that it isn't just a bad sequel, it's a bad even as a stand-alone movie .There are one or two things that this movie briefly, the bloody scenes designed to please gore-hounds for example. But that's like polishing a turd. It's

The Wizard of Gore is Nothing Magical...

2008-01-14T20:18:00.001Z

"Yes! I am Montag. Master of illusion. Defier of the laws of reason. What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know, that at this second, you aren't sleeping in your bed, dreaming that you're in this theater?"The '70s horror market is well known for spawning the underground genre known as 'exploitation cinema'; low-budget films that cover a series of taboo and lewd

Hard Boiled Action

2008-01-13T13:10:00.000Z

John Woo's graceful yet trenchant heroic action movie explodes onto the screen with the destructive vivaciousness of Roadrunner carrying an atom bomb, and it just doesn't let up. Hard Boiled is a beautifully choreographed movie that strings together some of the most impressive sequences and stylish moves with a decent plot and leaves you thirsty for more.Hard Boiled is pretty famous as being

Zeeb? As Thermal Detonator In ... Gargantuan Rock Monster

2008-01-11T18:02:00.000Z

They may have been here for a hundred years or so and chosen to be stationed, somewhat questionably, in Ipswich, but it’s surprising how much a band can grow within a few years. Something about this ‘Gargantuan Rock Monster’ really stands out.With a band like the alien Zeeb?, it’s hard to say they’ve “grown up”. This would be because they are a bit of a drawn out sci-fi puerile joke: a puerile