Saw Kick-Ass yesterday. It's been hyped a lot, but it looked like a movie I'd enjoy, and it was. I liked the general insanity, and rubbish superheroes are good value if they're done well. It's actually quite a conventional and rather sweet story, foul-mouthed murderous small child notwithstanding.

I didn't read The Word for World is Forest yesterday, I went to the pictures . I didn't see Dances with Wolves. Or Ferngully: The Last Rainforest. I didn't see A Man Called Horse, Soldier Blue, Gorillas in the Mist or The Mission. I saw
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Went over to WW's place this afternoon to look at a bike he's selling. Watched Breaker Morant, in honour of the late Edward Woodward, and selected bits of Blade Runner to showcase WW's awesome new giant screen TV. Then we headed over to Richmond for a concert by his partner's orchestra. We were working the door, along with a violist colleague of ( Read more... )

I went to see the film Up yesterday. If you go expecting a re-release of Russ Meyer's late career classic, you will be in for a disappointment ( Read more... )

Went for a drink on Friday with privatep32 after a long week at work.
Had a haircut on Saturday morning, then went over to visit WW and B ryony.
Saw Watchmen on Sunday.
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On Thursday, I went with inkognitoh, silverjet_allie and Pete to the Barbican's Twisted Christmas show, which featured a lot of cool music, along with shadow puppetry, a culinary shaggy dog story, and Heston Blumenthal recreating the smell of christmas onstage. Which we were sitting too far back to fully appreciate ( Read more... )

In a time when trailers became increasingly portentous, one man could make a difference...

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The baddie in one of the greatest movie swordfights of all time...

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He was also King Arthur in the eye-hurtingly technicolour but still pretty cool Knights of the Round Table. And he was married to Audrey Hepburn.

Went on a CPD visit to the MOD library in Whitehall on Wednesday. It was pretty cool. We got to see Henry VIII's wine cellar, and the library itself. They do a lot based on online resources, but the library itself would have seemed like the coolest place in the world to my eleven-year old self. All the Jane's series, and tons of books on ( Read more... )

We won a low-scoring quiz on Thursday.
On Saturday, I went to the park and finished re-reading Legend.
Yesterday, I went over to WW and Bryony's. We had lovely barbecued pork for lunch, then went to see Iron Man. Which was very cool. Robert Downey Jr must have had a lot of fun playing that part. Gwyneth Paltrow looked as if she hadn't been told ( Read more... )