( Let's see how many of them I can remember right now. :) )

I felt a touch restless on Saturday night so on impulse I grabbed my phone and bought a ticket to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I was vaguely aware that the story had been a miniseries in the late 70s but I've never seen it, nor read Le Carre's novel (which is forty years old this year); nor had I seen any reviews. I sat down in the cinema not ( Read more... )

I just watched a documentary named Page One: Inside the New York Times, about the difficulties that it has faced over the recent years when it comes to the collapse of print media advertising, staff cuts, scandals (such as misreporting on Saddam's WMDs), and the closure of other newspapers. I'm a regular NYT reader, and I do think that it both has ( Read more... )

I'm watching a film that ostensibly takes place in 1970s and 1980s England, but an England in which clones are created and raised in a traditional boardingschool as eventual organ donors. It is a strangely nostalgic science fiction film, as though it were made decades ago with modern filmmaking techniques ( Read more... )

   On Saturday K- and I went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I guess everybody is going into that film with an eye to watch Ledger, Depp, Law and Farrell, but I most enjoyed the performances of Tom Waits, Peter Stormare (very minor role, but I liked seeing Constantine's Lucifer as a faux-FDR) and of course Christopher Plummer.
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   17 Again: To be honest, the main reason I borrowed this was because the trailer was in every damn DVD that I've seen recently. You probably already know if you'll like this film; Matthew Perry is a sales executive whose life did not turn out as good as he'd planned, with kids who don't talk to him and a wife who wants to divorce him... and then ( Read more... )

   I don't actually get to the cinemas very often, despite working on the other side of George Street from a major complex. But I do like to rent a DVD to have on while I do my ironing!
Knowing    One of the things that you know going into this film is that Nicholas Cage is not generally considered a fantastic actor. Still, he does seem to ( Read more... )

   Not much in cinema is worse than a theatrical trailer that entirely misleads the audience about what the film is actually like. A prime example of this sin is the trailer to Bridge to Terabithia, which encouraged you to think that the film would be a kids' fantasy adventure movie, similar to The Spiderwick Chronicles. Actually, Bridge to ( Read more... )

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