Tag: Cuarón

Y Tu Mamá También

Your mother wouldn’t like it: the awkward charm of a Mexican coming-of-age drama.

Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film

Children of Men

Dark, desperate and dystopic. All in all, a miserably good film.

Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in Film

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Happy Feet

Arctic penguins have an intolerable enough existence even without being voiced by Robin Williams.

  • Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film

Sint Bernardus Christmas Ale

4/5. Stronger and less smooth than the 12 Abt but with many of the same flavours – definitely a winter warmer.

  • Originally published: 1 Jan 2011 in Beer

Laurent Garnier

Garnier and colleagues with a live machine musical experience that left me strangely wanting less.

  • Originally published: 15 May 2011 in Concerts

The Waterloo battlefield

A walk around the 1815 battlefield near Waterloo with a commentary on the key locations.

  • Originally published: 6 Jun 2010 in Walking

Ma Mère

Director: Christophe Honoré France, 2004 Pierre has too much time on his hands. He’s a sullen, truculent, overweaned, morbid youth who spends his inordinate amount of spare time writing miserable prose and pulling faces at his elders. Ma Mère is all about Pierre and it’s as indolent, ignorant and insolent as he is. Based on …

  • Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film

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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.

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Dopeology.org

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.

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