24 February 2016
Ed
12 August 2014
Robin Williams – Take a Look Back at his Career through Movie and Interview Clips
No doubt the newspapers will be full of the reasons why Robin Williams took his own life and so we will leave that to them. Let’s remember him through some of his memorable screen moments – not to mention the very amusing interviews he would always give when promoting his movies.
His career was far from over. Below is a slightly risqué clip from his 2009 tour which presciently was named Weapons of Self-Destruction.
16 May 2014
Grumpleton
9 June 2013
One Man
One Man is directed by Matt Rhodes and written by Tony Pipes. It stars Rob Jarvis who, if you have been scratching your head, you may have seen as hapless barman Eddie on the BBC show Hustle. If that’s not where you are familiar with him, then name a popular British drama from the last decade, from Waterloo Road to Law and Order UK and you will no doubt have seen his face popping up on them.
22 January 2013
The Evening Sunset (El Vespre)
The Evening Sunset (El Vespre) is a short stop-motion film created by Joan Martín Giménez. It tells the story of an old man who truly is tired of life and decides to do something about it in a home-made Dignitas kind of way. Instead of heading for Switzerland he decides to take things in to his own hands but, as you shall see, life has not quite finished with him yet. Giménez handles a very sensitive subject here with pathos, charm and just about the right amount of nudity.
23 June 2012
Alan Turing - Celebrating the Centenary of a Genius
He was a bright child - condensing Einstein’s Theory of Relativity for his mum at the age of 15. He received a scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge and it is to that august university that we turn to learn more about Alan Turing’s life. In his twenties he turned his attention to one of the most important mathematical problems of the twentieth century – the Decision Problem. He conceived of a machine which would read symbols on a strip of tape – 0s and 1s and showed that dark areas in mathematics would always pose a barrier to the complete truth. This machine model became one of the cornerstones of computer science. He did this when he was only 22.
He then went on to his code breaking work, for which he is rightly famous. Here, Dr James Grime, Enigma Project Officer at Cambridge University's Millennium Mathematics Project explains the code and tells the life story of this remarkable man born 100 years ago today. It concludes with his death in 1954 – betrayed by the British Government and with only a single escape route – suicide – Turing bit from an apple he had previously laced with cyanide. This tragic end to a brilliant life was thirty years before most of his work would become public; the Official Secrets Act meant his true brilliance was not to be acknowledged until many years after his death.
Today, however, we can lift a glass to this most brilliant of men, celebrate his life and his achievements and perhaps speak softly an apology for the sins of our fathers.
22 October 2010
Topher Cusumano: Timeline
The recent spate of gay teenage suicides has given a lot of us reason to pause and contemplate just why young people still feel that there is no other way out than to kill themselves. What have people been telling them or doing to them that this is the only way thatthey can attain peace?
17 April 2010
Don't Jump Off The Roof!
High up on the Empire State Building a lone figure stands. Another poor soul prepares to shuffle off their mortal coil by leaping from the ledge. Or are they?
Each call has to be investigated and this is wasting a lot of police time. Ironically, when the installation’s home was the capital of England, London, there were no such calls to the emergency services.
