One of those films I didn't really 'watch', so much as be in the room while it was on. My attention was primarily focussed on writing Doctor Who reviews on my laptop - but the plot is hardly difficult to follow, so I think I can be said to have seen the film as well ( Read more... )

Seen last night with big_daz at The Light.

I haven't read the book of Brideshead, but I fairly regularly catch bits of the classic Granada TV adaptation on ITV3. In fact, over the last couple of weekends, I've been watching it systematically, since - in a fairly obvious scheduling move - they have been re-broadcasting it from the beginning on Sunday ( Read more... )

I'd never even heard of this film when glitzfrau texted me late yesteday afternoon to say that she and biascut were going to see it that evening at the Cottage Road cinema, and did I want to come along? But I'm glad I went, because it was great fun ( Read more... )

Seen this evening at the Light with gillywoo, nikkyboy, glennkenobi and blondelassYup, good stuff. Basically exactly what you expect from a Batman movie these days. You know, dark and long and with big explosions. I realised as I was sitting down that I could hardly remember anything about the plot of the last one - but it didn't matter, and nor will the fact that I can't remember the ( Read more... )

IMDb page here. DVD given to me by mr_flay. Watched with Mum.

This is a very moving and powerful portrayal of the final few days in Hitler's bunker at the end of the Second World War, based chiefly on the memoirs of Traudl Junge, who was his private secretary at the time ( Read more... )

( 6. Cat People (1942), dir. Jacques Tourneur )

Possibly my favourite way to spend a weekend morning is to wake up late, mooch on down to the sofa, and eat my breakfast there in my dressing-gown while watching fluff on the telly and browsing LJ on my laptop. That, in fact, is what I'm doing right now. Normally, my watching fare consists of things like old episodes of Poirot or Sherlock Holmes. I ( Read more... )

Seen last night at the Light with glitzfrau and biascutIf you liked the TV series, you'll enjoy this film; if you didn't, you won't. The plot is pretty simplistic, and a lot of it was intensely predictable, but it was nicely paced and structured all the same. Given that we normally get S&TC in half-hour doses, and this was 2h30, I found my interest very ( Read more... )

Seen last night with Mum ( Read more... )

I saw this with big_daz at the Light, as part of a very lovely afternoon and evening which meandered from pints, to dinner, to companionable newspaper-reading and finally to the cinema, and was generally exactly what I needed ( Read more... )