"Tim burton, Jack Nicholson, Micheal Keaton, Prince, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Joel Schumacher, Tommy Lee Jones.... your boys took one hell of a beating."
After feeling dissatisfied with the majority of 'big' films I've seen this year FINALLY a satisfying family film in 2007 in Stardust. Great cast, lovely looking, great direction, screenplay by Jane Goldman. Maybe dragged a touch in the last 20 mins (action scene was way too long), but really - what more could anyone want from a modern fairy tale? A
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So, yeah. Lots of stuff going on at the moment, and no updates from me. So here we go with a few observations of entetainment, and a smidge about reality:
Movies:
Apocalypto. I expected a rather shonky historical epic with gratuitous violence. What I got was a rather good action/chase film... with gratuitous violence. Hokey but great fun. Gibson is
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Had moment of triumph at the weekend. A minor victory of overcoming our Britishness. We went out for brunch at a pub in Southgate on Sunday. They had my third choice (go figure), but when the food arrived the chips were rank. We complained (and by 'we' I mean 'Meg'), and they brought us shiny new chips which were
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