Brisbane Roar travelled to Wellington on Sunday for a battle between second and third.  The Phoenix shot to second place in the table after a club-record run of form where they won three away games on the trot.  As with the previous two encounters between these sides, Ricky Herbet opted to sit very deep in defence and play on the ...

The Station Agent

11/22/63 is the latest novel from Stephen King in which a divorced high school teacher Jake Epping meets an aging cancer-afflicted fry cook who reveals he has a time portal in his diner that transports you to 1958.  The fry cook explains that it is possible to make changes in the past, then travel back to the present to witness ...

It’s Sales Conference time! We had our annual sales conference at the Darling Harbour convention centre in Sydney, as has become the tradition.  It comes off the back of a rather brutal year for the company – we’re very happy to see the back of 2011!  It was a slightly scaled back event this year.  It wasn’t quite the celebrity-stacked ...

Against all the odds, Real Steel isn’t a completely terrible movie.  Well, not nearly as bad as you would imagine when considering that its a film about rock ’em sock ’em robots.  Director Shawn Levy wisely opts not to make a bunch of robots hitting each other repeatedly the centrepiece of his film (unlike, say Michael Bay’s last three films).  ...

After I bitched last week about the Roar’s indifferent mid-season form which saw them concede the opening goal in ten out of eleven games, there finally came some sweet relief in Round Twenty of the competition when the side finally came together and played ninety minutes of football that showed us what they are capable of.  The unlucky opponents?  The ...

BRISBANE ROAR 0 NEWCASTLE JETS 1 When this season is all said and done, maybe we’ll look back on the Roar and decide that it wasn’t former captain Matt McKay that the team missed the most.  Or goal scoring machines Kosta Barbarouses or Juan Carlos Solozarno.  Maybe it was the defenders Milan Susak and Luke Devere. I can barely remember ...

Iron Sky – This looks like the best worst movie. Have a good weekend everyone!

WWE Royal Rumble 2012 If there was ever a show that highlighted where the WWE have lost their way in last few years, it was the Royal Rumble of 2012. The undercard for the show was a series of passable but too-short matches where nothing really stood out.  CM Punk and Daniel Bryan both retained their respective titles as expected.  ...

The Boy With The Lightning Tattoo