Within the past decade people have come to understand that animated movies and television programmes are as valid as any alternative, as much as the Oscars fail to recognise it. Archer is an incredible example of how utterly brilliant an animated show can be and is easily one of my favourite things to watch at the moment.
Read moreWeekend Review - Upstream Color
I watched Primer twice, read a detailed explanation about it and looked at a graph of events before I really knew what was going on. If you expect the same sort of compelling complexity from this director / writer's latest film, Upstream Color does not disappoint.
Read moreWeekend Review - Ben & Jerry's Clever Cookies
"Vanilla Ice Cream with a Chocolate Cookie Swirl, Double Chocolate Cookies & Chocolate Chip Cookies", whoever convinced everyone else that this is the description that they should go with really deserves some sort of mention somewhere on the tub. I suppose I'm a 'judge the book by it's cover' sort of guy, because the first time I picked this flavour up, it was sheerly because 'Clever Cookies' sounded cool and I liked the colour scheme that they went with. If nothing else, this is one of the better looking and sounding tubs of Ben & Jerry's.
Read moreWeekend Review - iOS 7
Last week, in case you were living under a rock next to a pineapple under the sea, Apple revealed iOS 7 at WWDC and it basically reinvented the operating system as much as possible without getting too far away from the fundamentals that appeal to most of it's users. The new design is, as expected, a lot more simplistic and typographically reliant. I almost want to call it clean, but that's slightly redundant and so I'll stick to what I just said.
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