Tag: comedy
Tawdry minds think alike
A bit of April fooling around on the Wikipedia homepage got me thinking about English humour.
The last night of Hobson’s Choice
Treading the boards is John Savident as the cobbler who must tread carefully.
The Darjeeling Limited
Riveting rail movie: terrific casting and a sparkling script make this an enjoyable passage to India.
Shaun of the Dead
Genre parodies based on the smalltown nature of little England. It’s becoming a whole subgenre unto itself.
Beverly Hills Cop
The foul-mouthed and the feckless: remembering the good times with the buddy cop film of the 80s.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Pont du Gard
One of the world’s finest remaining examples of Roman engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Originally published: 10 Jul 2010 in Architecturetitle_li=Europe
Afrocubism
Visa problems stopped an Afro-Cuban soundclash in 1996, so producers recorded Buena Vista Social Club. Now after 14 years, the original project is here.
- Originally published: 21 Nov 2010 in Concerts
Solas
People are inherently decent: celebrating a threatening undertone that fails to materialise.
- Originally published: 11 Jan 2007 in Film
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
The walls have ears: a painful look at the methods of the former East German regime shines a light on the darkness.
- Originally published: 11 Oct 2007 in Film
Romeyer and Die
A few thoughts on our first night at Romeyer in the Diois, in the shadow of the Vercors plateau.
- Originally published: 8 Jul 2010 in Europe
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.