Blakeson
Blog URL http://blakeson.blogspot.com
Located Cardiff, South Glamorgan United Kingdom
A Cardiff cultural blog.
Latest Blog Posts
- National Theatre of Wales Launch on Nov 6, 2009
The new National Theatre of Wales has finally released its inaugural programme of events, in an on-line broadcast which somehow managed to be both slick and shambolic. Kicking off in the spring of 2010, it’s pretty impressive in terms of geographic...
- "District 9 " / "Cardboard Dad" on Oct 19, 2009
I finally got round to seeing “District 9”, and greatly enjoyed Neill Blonkamp’s engagingly clever sci-fi thriller/satire on the asylum/refugee issue (cf “Alien Nation”). The most important plot-hole (“why don’t they use a prawn to fire...
- Gulliver / Undeb's "The Project" on Oct 6, 2009
As one of the millions who suffer from False Memory Syndrome when it comes to having read “Gulliver’s Travels”, I found Hijinx Theatre’s touring production (I saw it at the Sherman Cymru) of “Gulliver”, written by Kit Lambert and directed...
- The City / The Wire on Sep 14, 2009
I only attended one play in the Sherman Cymru’s Directors’ Week mini-festival, organised in collaboration with Living Pictures, in which relatively new theatre directors were let loose on texts by internationally renowned writers; thus I missed p...
- "Inglourious Basterds" on Aug 23, 2009
I went into “Inglourious Basterds” expecting more of a rip-roaring rampage of Nazi-scalping than in fact transpired - Quentin Tarantino’s latest is more intellectually ambitious than the pulpy war films and B-Westerns which inspired it, and all...
- Big Weekend 2009 on Aug 4, 2009
Friday Night was emo night at this year’s Cardiff Big Weekend, if the rain-flattened lateral coiffures and teen demographic were anything to go by; I was there for London-based North Walian trio The Joy Formidable, however, whose subtle, indie wall...
- "Moon" / Dirty Protest on Jul 25, 2009
In an era where science-fiction films seem to focus on blowing stuff up, to the exclusion of deeper concerns, Duncan Jones’ “Moon” is a welcome throwback to the days of philosophically-oriented space-operas (cf “Dark Star”, “Silent Runnin...
