The Holy Pasty?

Over a month? I can’t believe it’s been that long since I updated. However it’s been a really busy time. I’ve been doing the normal things like Soteria Reviews, check out the Soteria website for reviews on many of the Stand-up comedians DVDs released this year. There are some good, some bad, some who appeal to the cerebral and others to the base level of humour. There’s something for everyone unless you don’t like stand-up comedy of course!

However it’s a new project that has got me excited enough to actually get around to posting a blog. It’s something I’ve mentioned a few times on my twitter feed , Christmas at Poldark. For this I have set up a website at http://ww.poldarkchristmas.co.uk and produced some publicity. We have had a team of people putting the actual event together which has been something given that the idea only surfaced a couple of months ago. None of us are professionals at doing any of this! In the last couple of days I have written a press release for the local newspapers and other media outlets, I just hope that they use it!

So what is this fantastic project. Basically we’re taking over Poldark Mine for a day. It’s a historical tin mine near Helston in Cornwall and a tourist attraction. We’ve got a load of things going on including Carol Singing in the mine, videos for kids, bouncy castles, a ‘meet the cast’ where you have to find members of the nativity, and loads more including steam engines and steam organs. We’re doing it all to raise money for the Precious Lives Appeal. This is an appeal from Children’s Hospice South West to raise money to build a children’s hospice in Cornwall to help those children with life limiting conditions.

So the entrance and mine tour are free, shops are open as normal, but the money will be raised for the charity by donations and by selling a souvenir programme, a CD we have recorded especially (recorded and produced by Jon at Soteria Worship Music Division and Phil of PGI Media) called “Carols in the Cavern”. This was recorded down the mine in the Holman Chamber and adds the brilliant acoustics to the traditional carols. We also have unique Pewter Miners for sale as a momento of the day!

This has been a huge project and has had to be fitted in, along with keeping the Soteria website up to date and the extra church activities that Christmas always brings, including a whole week of schools coming to us for their Christingle services! You’ll see though that the work has been worth it when you join in with us at Poldark Mine on December 12th from 11am – 6:30pm, it’ll be a great day I am sure!

You may have also noticed that there is no December magazine. This is because money has been rather tight and the team have all been busy with Christmas events (Greg has also been busy getting a new job – congratulations) however we hope to be back with a new magazine in the middle of January! We’ve just got to plan and write it now!!

Available on DVD from 2|entertain

Story:

“Are we cooking with napalm? You bet!” Gus still thinks his Globelink team are a finely-tuned news gathering unit; a tight ship run by professionals, with earth-shattering exclusives and glamour and gravity on screen. But life in the studio is as bizarre as ever…

Review:
We have now arrived at season three and after the casting shake-ups from season 3 the cast are now settled into their familiar roles for the 12 episodes of the incredibly funny topical humour show based around Globelink news. The satire of the shows was always in small throw-away comments and one liners as well as the comments for the running order, because it was such a minimal part of the show it was much funnier.

Read the review of Drop The Dead Donkey Series 4

Out from Monday 31st July on DVD from Momentum Pictures

Story

Real-life popstar Aaron Carter plays J.D. McQueen, a teen music sensation whose parents have sent him back to public high school to improve his declining grades. J.D. risks missing a critical summer tour that could cost him his position with his band. Determined to get his marks up, he builds a relationship with Jane Brighton, a homely academic whiz who also happens to be an avid fan.

Review

This movie is funny. Not because it is actually meant to be but you cannot help laughing at this whole thing from start to finish! From the start you feel as though you have travelled back in time to the year 2000 as all the fashion trends and musical styles are firmly rooted in that year. From knee length skirts, ankle socks and high waistbands on trousers for the lads this is a complete mismatch, however the year 2000 was when Aaron Carter was at the height of his popstar success.

Read our full review of Pop Star

Out now to own or rent from Momentum Pictures.

Nicolas Cage is an incredibly talented actor, as is Michael Caine unfortunately rather than pay their astromical wages the director of this film should have got a couple of cardboard cutouts and dubbed their voices over the top and they may well have ended up with nearly as good a film. It is a film that tries to play amateur psychologist with the viewer trying to help them see that life starts off with possibilities and as we develop our character traits we close off our options and we are left as shells of expended potential. However this thought is overly developed and included with heavy hands.

Read our full review of The Weather Man

Out now to own on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

When you have a film like this starring someone like Johnny Knoxville who is always loud, brash and outspoken you expect a film which is going to insult and degrade those who are different, especially when it’s a film about someone rigging the Special Olympics. However what you find is that very quickly those actors in this film with Downs Syndrome and other illnesses do not end up being laughed at, instead it’s the ‘normal’ guy trying to get the girl.

Read the full review of The Ringer