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Went to see this film last night, and thought it was excellent! -- we might not have got out to the pictures much just lately, but it's been a pretty good hit rate ( Read more... )

Went to the cinema for the first time in ages, to see Pan's Labyrinth with pmarrow  and T. If you haven't seen it yet, it certainly is an intriguing and remarkable film. I came away feeling very glad that I'd seen it, but also quite glad that I won't now have to see it again. I seem to be becoming more and more of a wimp when it comes to grimness and grue ( Read more... )

From Language Log:

"There is a scene in which Queen Elizabeth drives her Land Rover solo across a ford on the Balmoral estate and breaks the drive shaft on a rock, stranding her vehicle in shallow water. As she gets out to check under the vehicle, suspecting the worst, she quietly mutters 'Bugger' to herself. For this, parents are strong ( Read more... )

Apparently there's a story been circulating that Steve Irwin converted to Chistianity shortly before his death.

I guess now he knows how St Teresa of Avila felt.

In other non-news, I was just now watching The Long Good Friday, off Film4 the other day. What a very fine film. Among the expected crowd of 70s London acting faces, though, I was slow ( Read more... )

We went last night to see The Da Vinci Code, for reasons which are too complicated to go into here. Much to my surprise it was actually not too bad. I mean, it was a load of cheesy old nonsense of course, but not bad in a "Must.. claw... out... eyes!" kind of way. I haven't read the book, but it seemed like the main thing that people complained ( Read more... )

(Or TTFN, as the UK equivalent would presumably be called.) Went to see this the other night -- it's the George Clooney-directed thing about US TV newsman Ed Murrow's campaign against Senator McCarthy. It makes the point that when there are two sides to a political issue, and one side is frankly evil and wrong, then broadcasters who try and present ( Read more... )

I went to see State and Main the other day (showing as part of the campaign to save the Ipswich Film Theatre) and was struck by something I hadn't really thought much about when I saw it when it came out in 2000.

( Includes spoilers... and talk of s*x )

Hope you're having a good one wherever you are old chum!

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