Hello. I haven't quite fallen off the face of the internet, though I may have been temporarily seduced by an anime fandom on tumblr. Ahem. Moving swiftly on. Anyway, look at this! I so want to see this film. Beautiful boats and beautiful animation. What more could I ask for?!

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Doesn't it look gorgeous? :)

I'm sure many of you will have seen this before, but it's new to me and it's rather lovely so I'm posting it here. This clip, which is allegedly one of the first same sex kisses filmed, is from the 1927 silent film Wings starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, and Richard Arlen. (The music is modern.) There's a fascinating wikipedia entry about the ( Read more... )

Today, 15th of August, marks the anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to commemorate the birth of Europe's greatest military leader / the megalomaniac Corsican tyrant (delete as appropriate), allow me to share one of his finest cinematic outings. Now there have been numerous outstanding portrayals of Napoleon on stage and ( Read more... )

Last night partner and I watched Thor. We tend to get round to watching films about a year or so after the rest of the known world. Anyway, I was completely distracted for the first half of the film trying to figure out who Mr Hemsworth reminded me of. A quick imdb check confirmed that neither of us had ever seen him in anything ever, but he still ( Read more... )

Thought this might amuse mylodon and nodbear....

Partner and I usually exchange gifts at Hogmanay as well as at Christmas, this year however Hogmanay was somewhat chaotic so gifts got held over until this weekend. Amongst other things, I gave partner a copy of To The Ends Of The Earth to add to our AoS movie collection. Partner took one look at the cover, ( Read more... )

I had hoped to post this yesterday but didn't have a chance... Sixty two years ago on the 2nd of December 1949 the Royal Navy scuttled HMS Implacable, the only other ship aside from HMS Victory to have survived the Battle of Trafalgar. Implacable was originally a French Temeraire class ship of the line Duguay-Trouin. She survived Trafalgar but was ( Read more... )

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...to bring you the latest images from Glasgow.


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...of Navy Boy fangirling to bring you a ranty film review.

As daughter has gone to stay with her gran, partner and I took the opportunity to go to the cinema *faints* This is probably the 5th time I have gone to the cinema since daughter was born and she is 5 now.

We went to see the The Eagle and if you plan to read this rant you should know ( Read more... )