Watching
Sophie Marceau in D'Artagnan's Daughter, which you would never have guessed to be a comedy from the poster art. More than 16 years on, the fight scenes look terribly slapstick and unrealistic, but the charm of the actors remains vital. Now if we could just overlook all the threats of rape and white slavery in the film...

Wearing
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Read Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris's first draft of Nottingham, the revisionist version of the famous Robin Hood story, in which the Sheriff of Nottingham is the hero, and Robin of Locksley a bandit and terrorist. Ethan Reiff talks about it in this interview:
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Nagged and wheedled so_spiffed into going to see Twilight with me yesterday - an interesting experience. I loved ( *spoilers* )

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...was KIND OF AWESOME and UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS except when it was really, really stupid. ( SPOILERS )

28 Days Later is one film I've been meaning to see for years, because I hear it's fantastic, but which I've never managed to actually see because I have an aversion to zombies in general (read: recurring nightmares) and will generally try to get out of seeing zombie films on my own. I own the DVD, would you believe it. But every time I come close ( Read more... )

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Perfect Creature is the most comic book-ish movie I've seen that ISN'T actually based on a comic book or graphic novel, and I mean that in the best sense.

A bit of Anno Dracula, a bit of Jack the Ripper, set in an alternate 1960s Nuovo Zealand where women are police captains, benevolent vampires run the Church (called the Brotherhood, they are ( Read more... )

( So, I've seen Sweeney Todd. )