I know this is a day late but I was at Cancon playing boardgames, and I have a bit of a mixed bag to report.

ef: a tale of memories proved to be much better than I was expecting. I also read Admirals: The Naval Commanders who Made Britain Great, an excellent book that does not include Nelson (and for the right reasons IMO).

Finally I saw the ( Read more... )

Very little to report.  I did ramble for a bit about my approach to reviewing anime, and I'll include a the link to the Iron Sky review that I forgot to link to last week.

Very busy at work at the moment, and it isn't leaving me with a lot of energy or motivation to write reviews.  I have booked my flights to Continuum 8: Craftonomicon, and also ( Read more... )

Last week when I wasn't going "Oooh, so pretty" at ARIA the NATURAL, I was going "Oooh, so much prettier in widescreen" at ARIA the ORIGINATION.

( Despite which I did write some interesting (to me at least) stuff... )

I spent a fair chunk of last week going "oooh, it's sooo pretty" about ARIA the NATURAL on Twitter.  Despite this I still managed to see, and greatly enjoy, the Avengers.

I also amused myself by indulging in some wild speculation about Magic Knight Rayearth, and boosting the signal when FUNimation's pending re-release of Haibane Renmei was ( Read more... )

The bad news is that I've run out of Hornblower episodes. Boo!

The good news is that there may be a Twenty Days post tomorrow. I'm currently contemplating the Ah! My Goddess movie, but I'm still open to suggestions.

The Mutiny episode of Hornblower ended WHERE?!!!

The damn things are movie length and it's too late to watch the next one tonight...

I have been enjoying the Hornblower TV Movies. There is one particularly amusing moment* inThe Frogs and the Lobsters where Captain Pellew asks if Horatio would like to volunteer for a mission,  and I rather doubt that Pellew's definition of the word matches with the more common usage ( Read more... )

The story I remember: Edmund and Lucy's last visit to Narnia is a charming travelogue lightly spiced with a bit of prophecy during which Eustace grows up.

The trailer for the movie seen on TV: AN EPIC QUEST TO SAVE NARNIA! WITH A GLOWING MAGIC SWORD! In DIGITAL 3D!

Oh...dear.

( An utterly obvious cut... )

I'm looking at the promotipnal posters for this movie and there is one MAJOR problem: those are adults. Young adults to be sure but there is no way you can convince me that they are under 20.