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Normality – A Movie (that you’ll never see)

A few years ago we decided to try making a movie. We’d cut our teeth, as it were, on a couple of sketch show episodes and naturally made the assumption that a full length film wouldn’t be too difficult a task. Yeah, right. We planned on using the cast from The Village, with the relatively …

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60 Second Retro Gamer – Episode 48 – Virtua Tennis 2 (Dreamcast)

Our 48th episode of 60 Second Retro Gamer, and bringing us ever closer to our 100th episode overall, the review this week is Virtua Tennis 2 for the Dreamcast. Rich is on review duties again, there’s more coming from myself and Ant over the next few weeks, promise. If you want to listen to the …

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60 Second Retro Gamer – Episode 47 – Chu Chu Rocket

Thought I might start sharing our YouTube videos on here seeing as I tend to link to the audio projects. So here’s the first episode via WordPress, Chu Chu Rocket for the Dreamcast. There are, obviously, a lot more videos on our YouTube channel so please take a look if you like this one. You …

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Taking it one movie a day at a time…

I’ve set myself a bit of a challenge this year, and I hadn’t even planned it (some might argue these are the best challenges to set yourself). Rather inadvertently, as of this moment I’ve managed to watch 47 films in 2012 alone – that’s just short of one movie per day, and does not as …

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All it takes is a little bit of snow…

Sometimes it’s fun living in the UK – we obsess over the weather for most of the year, but it’s particularly bad when the snow is apparently on the way. The supermarkets receive a sudden surge in footfall as shoppers strip the shelves bare of bread, milk and other “essentials”, like a plague of disgruntled …

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January – Progress!

As this will probably be my last blog of the month, I thought it might be best to recap what’s gone on in the last 4 weeks and the progress that Random Stoat has made. Compared to previous years we’ve had a pretty good month, all told. The main project throughout January has been a …

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Getting the ball rolling

It’s been a while coming, but we finally got back to making 60 Second Gamer last night, hence no blog update. We have about 25 reviews waiting to be edited together, most of which are waiting for intro sketches. Sadly with the dark evenings throughout winter it makes life a bit more difficult when it …

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Writing in January – Trent Samuels and other projects

For some people January is the month where they pull out the exercise gear or decide that these cold, dark winter months is exactly the right time to stalk the roads of Britain wearing shorts and an ever so slightly reflective jacket that an oncoming vehicle will only see mere seconds before running you into …

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Netflix Launches in the UK

I’m a subscriber to Lovefilm, and I rather like the postal service they offer – I’m currently on the highest package, receiving 4 discs at a time and a mixture of TV, movies and video games. I’ve tried their streaming service before (only films included in the package I’m on, naturally – £2.49 or £3.49 …

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Writing, Inspiration and the Writers Yearbook

I’m running slightly behind the times, but I’ve recently received the 2012 edition of the Writer’s and Artist’s Yearbook. I’ve previously owned the 2009 and 2011 editions and with the best intentions had planned to use them after writing a fantastic novel, a batch of short stories and an array of short films and audio …

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