Ok I admit it I’m a bit of a coffee snob. I’m not a fan of instant coffee, it’s not coffee! I like a nice, fresh brewed coffee. I don’t mind if it’s a cappuccino, espresso, americano or just a filter coffee. Personally 90% of the time I don’t get instant coffee, why use it? To make a proper filter coffee you boil a kettle, put some coffee in a cafetiere add the water to it, let it brew a little, poor into cup. This process is not exactly complicated or time consuming.
Again I ask why would use instant? Well there is one time in my life it would be useful and that’s at work, I have very little spare time and instant definitely saves on washing up, etc. so I’m always on the look out for something decent I can have.
I’ve tried a couple of options and so far the best is the Starbucks instant which wasn’t too bad (in the taste department) but I found it a little expensive. When I saw Kenco had released a new product called ‘Kenco Millicano’ described by Kenco as “our first ‘Wholebean Instant coffee’: a clever combination of instant
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Just a quick thought…….
After a trip to Germany a couple of years ago I discovered that lager can taste so much better than the standard lagers that we drink in England. Some supermarkets now how a selection of some less common lagers from around the world but I set about trying to find something a bit different. After scouting around farm shops I found a lot of UK based bitters but not many lagers. Eventually after much searching out I found a few different lagers my favourite being from Freedom. Freedom are based in Staffordshire, not a million miles away, so I went to take a look. They now have five different products, Organic Lager, Pilsner, Dark lager, Stout & Freedom Stout. My favourite is the Pilsner.
It is a little more expensive than ‘standard’ lager (when I bought a crate directly from the brewery I don’t actually think it was that much more expensive). If you like a drink it is well worth checking out the Freedom products, you’ll be support British Brewing but more importantly have a lovely drink!!
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Battle: Los Angeles is a predictable and unoriginal sci-fi action movie. Although I wasn’t a huge fan of District 9, I never thought it was as good as everyone else seemed to, it was a fairly original take on a sci-fi action film. I have heard some say that Battle: LA is a new District 9. In short, they’re wrong, it’s not! What they seemed to have done is taken some generic action characters, a fairly bog standard and weak action plot and then added a lot of fairly decent CGI in alien form. It doesn’t wash with me or hide any of the films short comings.
The lack of script would not be too bad if there was some great action but I just didn’t feel the action scenes worked. There were lots of them and just not enough linking them together. My biggest gripe is the camera work, one word sums that up – shocking! I’m not a big fan of the ‘wobbly camera’ shot, a steady cam is a wonderful invention please use it! In Battle: LA the annoyance of the wobbly camera is so bad that it is a distraction, the cameraman didn’t seem to have
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I saw the trailer for The Adjustment Bureau and thought it looked like it would be an OK film, when I read it is based on a short story called “The Adjustment Team” by Philip K. Dick I was a little more interested. For those of you who don’t know Philip K. Dick wrote the likes of Total Recall, Minority Report and Blade Runner.
The Adjustment Bureau is about David Norris (Matt Damon), a young, ambitious politician. A chance meeting with dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) changes his life forever. He feels a connection with her and instantly wants to see her again but he doesn’t know how to get hold of her or anything about her other than her name is Elise. His job is made even harder when a group of mysterious men try and prevent them seeing each other. David learns these men ‘control’ the course of our lives. These men are members of The Adjustment Bureau, they will do anything to prevent David and Elise from being together. Can David change his ‘fate’ or will The Adjustment Bureau managed to carry out their duties and prevent them.
The Adjustment Bureau is a decent enough thriller,
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Wow, it’s the time of year again it seems to come round quicker every year. I missed a couple of months of this year’s cinema offerings due to being stupidly busy and not being able to get to the cinema. I missed a few films I quite wanted to see but luckily not too many, hopefully I’ll catch them on DVD at some point. I have to say after a short break from the cinema it’s nice to be going again and I have had a great start to the year with 3 cracking films and at least a couple more I’m really looking forward to on the way soon.
First my general thoughts on last year’s cinema. When I wrote my Oscar post last year I said that I was left wondering whether we were going to see movies made just to make money but I’m pleased to say we seemed to have bounced back a little this year. Interesting to note though that most of the films that are at the top of my ratings recently have also been doing pretty well at the box office. May be it is in producers best interest to be making good
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