Someone really ought to write this... The Winter Soldier was the "one-armed man" who killed Richard Kimble's wife. No idea why, maybe she was a KGB defector or something - in which case he let Kimble live so that the "one armed man" description would circulate in the intelligence community and they would know that defectors were not safe in the USA ( Read more... )

Here's the next part of Birthday Honours, a Buffyverse / Marvel crossover. Previous chapters are here ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about retirement is being able to catch early shows at the cinema with no kids (and in this case virtually no audience, I think three in the whole cinema). The Winter Soldier was today's movie, and turned out to be pretty good - I won't say perfect, but there was a lot less to complain about than I expected ( Read more... )

Think I'm going to go see The Winter Soldier tomorrow or Thursday - It's showing in 2D at the Vue at Shepherd's Bush, and they do good over-60s prices and have a Weatherspoon's pub in the same building. If I go Thursday that's their curry club day, so I think that's more likely.

Anyone seen it yet?