Like Fight Club? Like Pride and Prejudice? You'll LOVE Jane Austen's Fight Club.

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These two films are wonderfully shot and extremely funny in a disturbing sot of way.

Rare Exports Part I

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Rare Exports Part II

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I've just finished watching the almost four-hour-long extravaganza that is Return of the King (extended edition). And OMG I am in lust with all of the gorgeous rugged beardy sword-wielding men - Faramir and Aragorn especially ( Read more... )

Films like this remind me why I have major issues with religion, specifically here Roman Catholicism ( Read more... )

Last night was unexpectedly LOL-tastic as Sasha, Paddy and James invited themselves round, we went out, got pissed in a rather good real ale pub, talked rude nonsense and then had a very, very silly random musical instruments session back at our house, accompanied by some rather fine Dalwhinnie whisky.  This included a legendary recital of Europe's ( Read more... )

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

Only three left, the first two being my all-time favourite films.  Clues for these, both surreal coming of age films, 1 is 1980s vintage, 2 ( Read more... )

I have just finished watching all three "Bourne" films and I'm completely overawed.  I'm pretty fucking stunned by how good these movies are seen together in a short space of time.  I saw Bourne Supremacy (the middle one) last year, not realising it was the middle one/part of a series, and I even thought it was fantastic then, but seen in context ( Read more... )

I have spent the day cleaning the house when I had planned to lie in bed.  But I was so aware of four weeks worth of dog hair drifts on the carpet, gritty mud in the hall and the washing malingering in the washbasket that I had to get up at 9am and start work cleaning up my pit.  I hate housecleaning with a passion as it is never ending.  As soon ( Read more... )

I'm home alone this weekend as Dave is in the Cairngorms on a winter mountaineering skills course.  So it's just me and the dogs and three DVDs from the library.  But the DVD player is on the blink and I had to watch the last third of "Hard Candy" on the laptop.

Hard Candy is a very, very odd and disturbing film.  It has the grand total of four ( Read more... )

Dave and J watched Pan's Labyrinth this evening (big screen size courtesy of the work projector - yay).  And what a film.  It was beautiful and amazing, extremely dark in both the fairy tale and real life aspects.  The film is set during the Spanish civil war where a young girl (Ofelia) and her pregnant mother go to live with the mother's new ( Read more... )