One year ago, I embarked upon the project of recording in my LJ all the books I read and films I watched during the course of the year 2007. I'd written about things I'd read or seen fairly frequently before then, but had never done it systematically. I decided to start because I'd tried to look back over the books I'd read in 2006 when answering ( Read more... )

IMDb page here. Seen on Christmas Eve at the Electric cinema, Birmingham - which has had a major face-lift since I last went there, and now sells possibly the best chocolate ice-cream in the world ( Read more... )

IMDb page here. Seen with glitzfrau and biascut at the University Chaplaincy.

Not too much about this, as I really need to go to bed. Basically, very much what I expected. Cuarón's touch is recognisable from Prisoner of Azkaban - especially in the grainy textures, muted colours and 'quiet' scenes which establish place and mood without action. There's plenty of ( Read more... )

IMDb page hereJust a quick write-up of this before I go to bed ( Read more... )

IMDb page here. Watched as a follow-up to reading the book in the summer, and because the DVD was only a fiver in HMV ( Read more... )

I watched this last night because I had been at work all day doing horrid marking, and felt I deserved a treat. And for obvious reasons, I'm feeling fairly Potterish at the moment. No, wait, who'm I kidding? Fairly Snapeish.

I'll need to re-watch Order of the Phoenix when it comes out on DVD to be sure, but I'd be surprised if I change my mind - ( Read more... )

Right - better get this written up before everything is eclipsed this evening by The Book. Seen at the Light with gillywoo at midnight on Saturday 14th July.

( Spoilery if you've not read the book )

IMDb page here. Seen round at Daz Towers with big_daz and gillywooShot in black and white, and given its macabre subject-matter and Victorian setting, this felt more like a Hammer film from their still-actually-quite-serious era than it did an early 80s David Lynch number. Which I guess was Lynch's intention ( Read more... )

IMDb page here. Seen round at Daz Towers with big_daz and gillywoo.

This was part one of a double-bill film evening we had last night, which somehow worked itself out so that it centred around the theme of people with severe physical deformities: Freaks followed by The Elephant Man. I'm not sure how that happened, because we'd collectively decided to watch these ( Read more... )

IMDb page here, official page here. Seen at the Light with gillywoo, nigelmouse, glennkenobi and sturmed.

( Totally spoilerific - read at own risk! )