More than 50 charities are supporting a UK campaign to levy a Tobin tax on transactions between financial institutions, which can be used to help fight poverty, protect public services and tackle climate change. I think it is a brilliant idea. And this man is also just very luvely. More about Robin Hood Tax here. [...]

The Boat That Rocked – Rock ‘n Roll Baby And finally finally it was the day where The Boat That Rocked entered the harbours of London. The anticipation was high, this was after all a Richard Curtis movie with Bill Nighy in it. A winning combination, right? (Very right, as I have seen it three [...]

POPB Life has its funny ways.

Love Lane, Peel Some random stuff, mostly movies related.

Dan In Real Life I hate long posts on blogs, I seldom read them, they put me off. But I know that I too often write them myself. There is a lot to say, but I will keep it as short as possible. I promise. There is some bad news and there is some, erhm, [...]

Remember the post I just wrote with the pathetic: “I will soon make and publish my plan on how I will try to survive the rest of December being a person who hates Xmas.” Forget it. That problem has solved itself already. Remember what I wrote about Richard Curtis?

He’s back I attended a Bafta screen writing session yesterday, so this post is about all the above, a lot about screen writing and film making too, and about the homecoming of Davy. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Some words from the guru Good words from screen writing Guru Richard Curtis. I thought 6 days and nights on a train, think about the huge amount of time I will have to write. Well I did write a bit here and there, but not the stuff I was supposed to. How could I, I [...]

New York Love (Written: New York, 33rd St – Picture: New York, 5th Ave) While I drink my Milky Way tea in the Starbucks right beside the Empire State Building (and let’s be honest there are worse places to drink your tea – behind your computer screen at work just to name one) I read [...]

The Girl In The Cafe 2 more reviews: Dan liked her Bjorn did not The Americans just gave her 3 Emmy’s (Best film, Best script, Best actress (Kelly MacDonald) – I know Bill is missing here, he wasn’t even nominated, but we all know that he made the film – Best film). If you like [...]

The Girl In The Cafe is part og the Makepovertyhistory.org project. And you can’t get away from it, this film has a political message too. Quite an important one. If you don’t like that in a film, don’t worry, focus on the fantastic acting performance of Bill Nighy. In Love Actually I found him slightly [...]