Surprise your Team
Recently Budweiser beer in the US did a ‘Flash Fans’ promotional event where they brought in bus loads of 600 roaring fans with cheer leaders, TV coverage, commentators and big screen replays to a small town recreational ice hockey match between the Amigos and the Generals. What would normally have had an audience of a dozen turned into a celebration of sport and passion. The two teams went to the ice as ‘Regular Joes’ and as the crowd came in they were transformed to feel like super stars. As you go into your day, think about who are the “Regular Joes” in...
Read MoreDorothy & the Witches of OZ
Good to see Billy Boyd (Pippin) back on screen in this production. With stars like Christopher Lloyd and Lance Henriksen it offers some fun and style. The interesting part to this story is that this was meant to be a TV mini-series which is now getting a limited theatre release in the States from February 17th. The script is based around the premise that Dorothy Gale discovers her best selling novels were based on her suppressed childhood memories. As the realisation of her time in Oz comes to reality she must face the danger of it all coming true...
Read MoreMission Impossible : Ghost Protocol
Nobody could understand what Tom Cruise was doing with this production of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Why take a monotonous story line and recycle the cliche on sequel number four since the 60s TV series first hit the big screen in 1996. The concern should have had a glimmer of hope when JJ Abrams came on side with the Bad Robot team. But how was this going to work? Lead in with a dramatic rescue, add in some betrayal and stage a comeback from against impossible odds. Isn’t that the standard script for the Mission Impossible franchise? Right but also wrong! This movie has...
Read MorePuss in Boots
Recipe for removing stress: Take a weekend morning and head to the St. Lukes Vmax cinema to relax watching Puss n Boots 3D with your wife and two children in a theatre full of parents and primary age kids. This was the result I came away with after sitting through the preview of the latest offering from the team who brought us the Shrek franchise. Now that reference to the green ogre is where it ends. This movie stands alone as a backstory to the lovable rogue we have come to know again through Shrek’s introduction. Antonio Banderas returns to voice the feline Casanova and captures the...
Read MoreContagion
In an increasingly mobile world where people and news travel fast, Contagion is a timely reflection on this brave new world. The conspiracy theorists will look to the movie for vindication while the script has a shot across the bow of everyone from the pharmaceutical conglomerate to the independent blogger. It plays on our fears and ask questions of recent events including the swine flu epidemic and a world where super bugs crawl and adapt. Looking at the movie poster you could be forgiven for thinking we’ve ended up back in the era of the 70s movie making. Remember ‘disaster...
Read MoreDealing with a Challenge in Public
Every now and then an example appears that shows brilliance in dealing with a challenge in public. Sometimes we learn from the mistakes and sometimes its clear that this example is one to follow. Recently when Bill Hybels had to confront a tremor in the organisaton of his church's annual leadership summit the timing and focus of the issue were both public and awkward. The Global Leadership Summit that impacts leaders in over 75 countries annually is run from the Chicago based Willowcreek church. Speakers often come from varying points of the compass and include both business and church...
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