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Candy Grabber

Posted by Notcot on Dec 12, 2012 in Gadgets
Candy Grabber

Re-live those childhood trips to the games arcade with this retro Candy Grabber. Fill it up with sweets of your choice and insert one of the fake coins. You’ll have one minute and fifteen seconds to grab as many sweets as you can! Use the three levers to pick up your tasty treats and deposit them down the chute for you to enjoy. Complete with carnival style music the Candy Grabber will make you feel like you’re back at the seaside in an instant. – L.M. A desktop Candy Grabber fairground-style A claw that you manoeuvre around to grab your sweet treats Three joystick style controls moving the grabber-forwards and backwards up and down and contracting and releasing the claw Fairground music that lasts for one minute and fifteen seconds A bag of fake coins A slot to fill the machine with goodies Suitable for ages 5+ Sweets not included Requires 3x D batteries (not included) Size: 32 x 21 x 16cm

Price : £ 24.99

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Candy Grabber

Posted by Notcot on Dec 2, 2012 in Gadgets
Candy Grabber

Re-live those childhood trips to the games arcade with this retro Candy Grabber. Fill it up with sweets of your choice and insert one of the fake coins. You’ll have one minute and fifteen seconds to grab as many sweets as you can! Use the three levers to pick up your tasty treats and deposit them down the chute for you to enjoy. Complete with carnival style music the Candy Grabber will make you feel like you’re back at the seaside in an instant. – L.M. A desktop Candy Grabber fairground-style A claw that you manoeuvre around to grab your sweet treats Three joystick style controls moving the grabber-forwards and backwards up and down and contracting and releasing the claw Fairground music that lasts for one minute and fifteen seconds A bag of fake coins A slot to fill the machine with goodies Suitable for ages 5+ Sweets not included Requires 3x D batteries (not included) Size: 32 x 21 x 16cm

Price : £ 24.99

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Brighton Rock [DVD] [1947]

Posted by Notcot on Aug 8, 2011 in Noir

Hard to imagine now but long before Richard Attenborough became Lord Dickie, benevolent patriarch of British moviedom, he specialised in playing weaselly little thugs and punks. Brighton Rock, adapted from Graham Greene’s classic novel, offered him one of his best early roles as Pinkie, juvenile leader of a seedy gang of racetrack crooks in the Sussex seaside town. When it seems an innocent young waitress may know too much about one of their killings, Pinkie decides to keep her quiet by marrying her. But in Greene’s world of guilt-ridden Catholicism and inexorable doom, it was never going to be that easy.

Is the famous twist ending a cop-out? That depends just how much irony you read into it. But the Brighton atmosphere, all tawdry gaiety shot through with a crackling undercurrent of fear, is so vivid you can smell it. Made with a cool, dispassionate eye by the Boulting Brothers (before they turned jokey with the likes of I’m Alright Jack, for instance) and superbly shot by Harry Waxman, this is one of Britain’s few great contributions to the noir thriller cycle. Young Dickie, twitchy, vicious and terrified, is a revelation–and don’t miss William Hartnell, the original Dr Who, as his cynical sidekick. –Philip Kemp Rightly regarded as a genuine classic of British cinema, Brighton Rock has stood the test of time remarkably well to emerge as a tense, original thriller. Although there is much that is old-fashioned here (particularly the less than convincing East End accents), the tale of feuding gangster factions holds up favourably compared to modern-day efforts. In place of the now all-too-familiar violence is a quiet, brooding menace with much of the black and white film shot in the dark shadows of the underworld. Richard Attenborough holds it all together with his remarkable portrayal of young gangster Pinkie, exuding a threatening aura while often saying very little. Not surprisingly, given its base in Graham Greene’s famous novel, the film has an exceptionally strong storyline that is matched by the directions and performances. A good lesson in timeless film making.

On the DVD: Brighton Rock on disc sadly is a package with nothing to offer over the standard video release. The black and white footage shows little sign of remastering, nor does the soundtrack. There are no extras whatsoever—this is surely a massive oversight given the classic nature of the film itself. –Phil Udell

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