Archive for August, 2011

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    Summer TV season – the good and the bad

    August 30th, 2011 | Feature, Trailer, US TV | bertas | No Comments

    Dear readers, September is just around the corner. It still might be hot and sunny but to me September means end of summer. So I thought to do a little recap of some of the stuff that was consistently good and consistently bad during this summer TV season. It is worth noting that this summer [...]

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    Gold’s Only Fools and Horses Competition

    August 25th, 2011 | British TV, Uncategorized | bertas | 2 Comments

    Dears readers, do you know it’s been 30 years (30!!!) since Only Fools and Horses first aired? I was aware I grew up with this stuff but 30 years! To celebrate the occasion Gold is running a competition where you get a chance to stay at Del Boy’s humble abode at Nelson Mandela house in [...]

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    Game of Thrones – Extras Casting Call

    August 23rd, 2011 | US TV | bertas | No Comments

    Image: HBO.com Dear readers, when I wrote the word extras just now I burst into a fit of giggles because I remembered that episode of Extras with Daniel Radcliffe. If you think I’m mental (and rightly so I might add) check it out and tell me this is not funny. But I digress. It seems [...]

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    Good things about Alphas

    August 22nd, 2011 | Trailer, Uncategorized, US TV | bertas | No Comments

        Image: Syfy.com Dear readers, have you seen Alphas? I had the chance to check it out (before I got sucked into a backlog of series that I haven’t had the chance to see since my holiday) and I quite liked it. It is about a team of people who have special superhuman abilities [...]

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    Late to the Game of Thrones

    August 17th, 2011 | US TV | bertas | No Comments

    Kitteh approves Dear readers, one book genre that I could never get into is fantasy. Of course I’ve read Tolkien when I was in primary school but then again who didn’t? Given there can be plenty of blood and gore in fantasy novels but the minute the author starts harping on about son of…, daughter [...]

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  • Of being a stubborn movie snob

    Of being a stubborn movie snob

    August 2nd, 2011 | Movies, Trailer | bertas | No Comments

    Dear readers, I have admitted a while back to being a documentary tart. It means I will watch any documentary regardless of the subject. Even if it is bad. When it comes to books I’m the same way – I can read almost anything. Even if the book is really (REALLY!) bad I will not [...]

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