A couple of weeks ago partner and I finally got round to watching That Hamilton Woman by Alexander Korda and I must say we both thoroughly enjoyed it! It's very much "of its time" but it's still very watchable. The film looks stunning, the battle scenes are very convincing and Vivienne Leigh and Laurence Olivier are as good as you would expect as ( Read more... )

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Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of ( Read more... )

There's an ineresting wee article titled A case of Holmesophobia? in the Grauniad today on the "sublimated homosociability" of the new Sherlock Holmes film. Now I haven't seen the film and I'm unlikely to as cinema trips belong to my life BC (Before Children), however blackhound and sarlania have both commented on the slashiness of the film and I'm quite happy to ( Read more... )