http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 23 May 2013 18:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/18/frankenweenie-is-just-one-reason-why-3d-films-are-not-going-away/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/18/frankenweenie-is-just-one-reason-why-3d-films-are-not-going-away/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:34:02 +0000 Liam O'Brien http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29232 Frankenweenie goes on wide release this weekend, and it’s an absolute joy. What’s more, its use of 3D is the best I’ve seen yet.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/18/frankenweenie-is-just-one-reason-why-3d-films-are-not-going-away/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/13/reasons-to-celebrate-the-works-of-roald-dahl/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/13/reasons-to-celebrate-the-works-of-roald-dahl/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:31:01 +0000 Jonathan Gibbs http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28394 Today is Roald Dahl day, the annual marketing push… sorry, I mean opportunity to celebrate the birthday of the man who remains Britain’s best-loved children’s writer, with no real rivals to the crown since his death in 1990. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/13/reasons-to-celebrate-the-works-of-roald-dahl/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-cinematic-sounds-of-summer/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-cinematic-sounds-of-summer/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:05:29 +0000 Tim Greiving http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25449 Summertime means summer movies, and as usual this year’s fare is a mixed bag. My personal interest in a new batch of films is the original music that accompanies them. I’m an enormous film score geek, you see, and whilst summer blockbuster season doesn’t always bode well for someone with my musical interests (great scores just as often accompany the sleepy dramas tucked between major movie “seasons”), it at least signals a glut of big-budget, potentially exciting projects that tend to have big scores attached.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-cinematic-sounds-of-summer/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/19/caught-social-the-hoffs%e2%80%99-new-pop-dynasty/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/19/caught-social-the-hoffs%e2%80%99-new-pop-dynasty/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:29:27 +0000 Luke Blackall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=15309 Daily gossip from the world of celeb]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/19/caught-social-the-hoffs%e2%80%99-new-pop-dynasty/feed/ 0