Tag: Peña
Crash
This ensemble drama about racial prejudice just manages to avoid the risk of oversimplification.
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Brokeback Mountain
Known as the greatest script never to be greenlighted, Brokeback finally got made and it’s not a bad effort.
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
Ladybower and Castleton
A day out in Derbyshire blessed with a rare spell of good weather.
- Originally published: 22 Apr 2007 in UK
Green credentials
Governments, global corporations and green issues: reflections on an environmental protest in Brussels.
- Originally published: 13 Jul 2010 in Editorial
Machuca
Beautifully shot historical drama that can’t quite connect the small story with the big one.
- Originally published: 12 Feb 2007 in Film
Democracy is deaf
After Tony Blair’s appearance before the Iraq Inquiry in the UK, a few thoughts on the growing distance between politics and the people.
- Originally published: 30 Jan 2010 in Editorial
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.