Blogs - Ipswich Star

Nordic noir is taking over our tellies

Posted 16 days ago by savagew with 0 comments

A FEW years ago everybody was saying ‘learn to speak Mandarin, that’s the future’. Turns out our real future masters are Scandinavian; at least in telly terms. I grew up on a staple diet of American imports; The A-Team, Knight Rider...

Name me a good movie sequel (aside from Empire Strikes Back and Aliens)

Posted 23 days ago by savagew with 0 comments

Movie sequels are funny old things. For every Aliens there’s a Piranha Part 2: The Spawning. [I love you really James Cameron]. How many original scripts are doubling as coffee mug mats while some producer flicks through the outline for Transformers...

Carjackers, bears, Twitter and me

Posted 1 month ago by savagew with 0 comments

A couple of weeks ago a shop assistant was browsing Facebook on her mobile phone while serving me; I assume she was changing her status to rude. This morning two people bowled into me, their heads buried in their mobiles. Several people on the train were...

Why The Voice UK is better than Britain's Got Talent

Posted 1 month ago by savagew with 0 comments

Having spent part of the other day being shouted at by a photo booth in Boots I now know how the judges on The Voice UK must sometimes feel. I could hear shoppers sniggering as this disembodied voice droned on while I was making my mind up whether to...

I hate James Cameron's Titanic

Posted 1 month ago by savagew with 0 comments

EXPERIENCE the film like never before say the adverts for Titanic 3D. What, better written, acted, directed, shorter? Fat chance on the last, the new cut apparently lasts more than three hours. It felt like six the first time I saw it. Mercifully I didn’t...

Apprentice Jade's animal drawings scared me

Posted 1 month ago by savagew with 0 comments

IF the current crop of Apprentice hopefuls are the best business minds the country has to offer, consider the case of the collapsing economy solved. Jade, who looks like Tulisa Contostavlos [maybe it is her, the X Factor judge is popping up in all sorts...

JLS gig is another good reason to visit Ipswich this summer

Posted 2 months ago by savagew with 0 comments

EVERYBODY in love with JLS, go on put your hands up. I’ve actually only got one in the air; I’ve got to save some love for fellow X Factor runners-up One Direction. The way they flip their hair [especially as I have none] gets me overwhelmed...

Terra Nova extinct, but Scott and Bailey live on?

Posted 2 months ago by savagew with 0 comments

I’D never make it as a TV producer. Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur drama Terra Nova has been rendered extinct by Fox, yet detective serial Scott and Bailey gets a second series? Terra Nova, which aired over here on Sky1, saw humanity flee a dying...

Help me convince my wife I need a PS Vita

Posted 2 months ago by savagew with 0 comments

It's 3am and I can’t sleep. I can’t read without turning on the light and my wife wouldn’t let me buy the special edition of Call of Duty which came with night-vision goggles. I’m banned from playing games in the middle of...