On Friday, I met up with R and we went and watched Cloud Atlas. I hadn't really heard that much about it, but I wanted to watch something and it was nice to do something in company ( Read more... )

My mother and I watched two films recently ( Read more... )

I spent the New Year at home on my own, which was a bit boring of me. But that will teach me not to arrange something beforehand. However, it's not been that bad. I've been quite exhausted after Christmas, and Christmas went really well. I've found I've excessed to excess and I'm really looking forwards to life getting back to normal. I like ( Read more... )

Christmas went pretty well. Christmas Eve saw the usual Vigil Celebration, where we ate the traditional Polish fish dishes finished off with Polish cakes. It was a bit touch and go, but in the end all the dishes that needed to be done were finished on time and without too much fuss. Granddad and his lodgers were around and we talked, opened the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, at the behest of my grandfather, we went to see the Polish film 1920: Battle for Warsaw, which is an account of the event that has been termed, in Polish culture, as the Miracle on the Vistula River (Cud nad Wisla).

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It was either yesterday, or on Saturday, that my mother and I watched Grand Torino, a film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was really good, on a par with Invictus, and played totally against type for Clint Eastwood ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went out with my parents and some of their friends to see The King's Speech. The film was really good. It's rare for me to see a much hyped film and for it to live up to or exceed it's hype. The actors were all uniformly wonderful and the plot was uplifting but not saccharine. Colin Firth was very believable as a stammerer and Rush ( Read more... )

For the last few years I've heard the Cuban Missile Crisis popping up when I read around other topics. I never thought it was a big deal, but sometimes I hear a snippet of something that would indicate that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the two sides of the Cold War came to open nuclear conflict. So when the film Thirteen Days aired on ( Read more... )

My parents are still away. I'm finding the house lonely and it isn't doing my sanity any good. However, I should start adjusting soon. In the meantime, I'm watching films and eating ready made stuff (I don't have the heart to cook with no one to cook for ( Read more... )

I watched 9 today, as it was on via the movie channels. I'd seen a write-up via an Amazon recommendation based on things I'd bought, and it seemed interesting and fit my mood. It's about a group of rag-dolls created by an inventor scientist. Each rag-doll has a number on it, which works as its name. The plot follows 9 as it wakes up into a post ( Read more... )