This is Stan Bush:

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If you're overly sensitive to spoilers, you might want to skip the rest of this post ... I don't think it's spoilery, but sometimes people have differing lines as to what constitues 'premise' and what is 'plot'.


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Okay, I know I'm a little behind with this one, but Becca and I saw Once on the weekend.  It's an absolutely marvelous little film.  The plot, basically, seems rather commonplace - guy meets girl, they start to develop feelings for each ( Read more... )

Okay, I meant to write about this earlier, but kept forgetting to.   We went and saw Juno and Sweeney Todd last week.  I enjoyed both, but for very different reasons ( Read more... )

some thoughts on some movie watching I've done over the weekend:

on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.  I had of course seen this one before, but not in years.  It's still quite enjoyable of a film, and I think my favourite Trek film of all.  It's got a lot of great, fun bits - like aliens quoting Shakespeare, and shapeshifters pretending to be ( Read more... )

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I .... there are no words.

Soldier 1: "So where are we going ( Read more... )

Another busy-feeling week, but also one that was lots of fun. Apologies in advance for the 'mixed-bag' sort of feel to this entry.

Went to two parental birthdays last week (a 52nd and a 65th). Got my dad a deck of cards for his 52nd - that joke went over huge with pretty much my entire family.
Friday night was Yet Another Oliver Black Show; it ( Read more... )

We had movie night Friday night: the theme of the night seemed to be Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and magic, as we caught The Prestige and Scoop.

Scoop was a fairly entertaining movie. The basic plot: A reporter (Ian McShane) dies, and gets a lead whilst on route to the afterlife regarding an aristocrat (Hugh Jackman) and his ties to a ( Read more... )

So, I went with Ri tonight to see Pan's Labyrinth.  Figured that since it was playing at CPC (the discount theatre near my house), I might as well go and see what all the fuss was about ( Read more... )