Agh, finally managed to fall asleep sometime around five in the morning (in part because I couldn't stop myself from finishing the second season of Game of Thrones, fair enough), and at seven the construction workers across the street started with their pneumatic drills and angle grinders. I could just cry. There must be something about things like ( Read more... )

When it comes to games, I talk with my guy friends about such thing as combat engines, graphics, plot and various gameplay mechanics.

Here, however, I can confess how I love using the protagonist in Assassin's Creed 2 as a beautiful Renaissance dress-up doll.


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The Bergen film club is pretty much having the best mini-movie festival in ages with the Powell and Pressburger productions. On Tuesday I watched the absolutely wonderful A Matter of Life and Death (a.k.a. Stairway to Heaven) and I was so impressed with the acting talent of Roger Livesey (not to mention his sonorous voice and red hair) I decided to ( Read more... )

I think I'm much happier about the Pratchett TV adaptations after I decided to view them as nothing more than very very elaborate fan art. Like staring at a three-hour fan-drawn picture. I'm usually the first one to sulk when I feel a movie adaption doesn't do justice to a beloved book, but I finally realized that when it comes to Pratchett ( Read more... )

I sat down to watch Hans Christian Andersen (1952) to get my monthly dose of Danny Kaye, but the whole movie was pretty much the opposite of what I was expecting (I think the peak of disbelief came with Danny Kaye and Farley Granger doing straight ballet in a dream sequence). In a good way ( Read more... )

There are certain things that I really should have thought of sooner.

Such as how I have had a lifelong love for Oliver Twist AND musicals, and yet it never occured to me to watch Oliver! (1968) until today.

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Digging further into old BBC dramas I've finally come across The Onedin Line, a.k.a. Everybody's A Bastard. I love it. I've had enough of noble characters staring woefully at the rolling sea, here's a whole cast of characters who just keep swindling and tricking eachother. I'm four episodes in, I hope it doesn't change ( Read more... )

While browsing unrelated matters last night I came upon this shot from the set of that guilty pleasure movie of mine, Prince of Foxes!


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Yes! After a number of Westerns of very varying quality I finally found one where DeForest Kelley plays an awesomesexy baddie. And rides a horse :D


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I don't think there's any sense to the frequency of my reaction post other than "welp, there they go putting on improbable but very sexy disguises again, which in turn means a whole lot of screencaps".

( 'A piece of the action? You do not even know what the action's going to be.' )