Bobby Cook

Recipe for Carbonara, a cheap and easy pasta dish made with cream, eggs and bacon.

Opening several apps and webpages to read all the latest goings on is slightly annoying and doesn’t seem to gel with the smooth user expirence that you usually expect on the iPad, so I’m going to take a look at some options that are available to help you streamline your expirence. The contenders: Pulse:  This [...]

Fast Five (2011): The Fast and the Furious films aren’t reknown for being high brow, it’s all about fast cars and action and apart from the blip that was Tokyo Drift the series has been one of my favourite from the modern age.  The fifth film in the series moves away from racing and more [...]

Only a single film this week, moving to a different house does tend to cause a bit of disruption. Limitless (2011) A simple premise, you can take a drug that will unlock your mind so that you can access 100% of your mind. (Let’s ignore my skepticism that you only use 20% of your brain, [...]

I will be keeping this first impressions free from major spoilers, or at the very least I will attempt to do so. I’ve clocked around 8 hours or so into Deus Ex HR so far and due to not being near my 360 I can’t ramp that up so I decided to put down my [...]

Your highness (2011) Well, I had hoped that this film would be a witty comedy in a fantasy setting, and I could geek out on the high number of cool refrences that I’d get because I’m into fantasy as a genre.  Boy was I disappointed by this film,  it isn’t so much a spoof of fantasy as [...]

So after missing a week you’d expect quite a few films to be talked about this week, well not really, business as usual. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005): So Harry gets roped into the Tri-wizard Tournement and is required to beat several obstacles rather than learn for a year.  Brief synopsis I [...]

The Amazon Kindle, 3rd edition – wifi only model. It’s basic stats are: 190 mm x 123 mm x 8.5 mm with a 6 inch reading display using E Ink Pearl, it weighs 241 grams and holds 3,500 books.  With wifi on it will last 3 weeks and with it turned off it will last 2 [...]

Transporter 2 (2005): Jason Statham, seems to have given up driving bank robbers and delivering girls to bad guys and now chauffeurs a small child to and from school and plies him with riddles to keep him quiet.  That is until some bad guys seek to do bad things to the child at which point [...]