Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for October 2004

It keeps grinning – It’s got to bleed

Just back from an expidition to Bluewater, mecca of the shopping classes. What a fabulous setting for a desolate future-gone-bad style film it’ll be once it falls into disrepair – the concrete sticks supporting the Thurrock crossing lit with red beacons in the background as you curl around descending into the pit, for a moment […]

“While the viewing of child abuse images is illegal, the new “conditional defence” is meant to reassure staff in ISPs and systems management that they can store illegal images as long as they are to be used as part of a police investigation.”

“I wanted to combine British film tradition with Bollywood – what better marriage than Pride and Prejudice?“