Films Seems like December was a busy month for me filmwise, I saw: Street Kings, Soylent Green, The Invasion, The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice, Conspiracy, The Golden Compass, and Brief Encounter. The benefits of being ill in the same month as Christmas, I guess :-)

BooksTen-second Staircase, Christopher Fowler - the fourth Bryant ( Read more... )

Films One the one new one this month, Quantum of Solace. Not as good as Casino Royale - it's gone too Bourne for that - but not a bad film nonetheless. And certainly they still seem intent on taking Bond in a different direction than previously; although it won't be clear until the next film whether they revert back to old form ( Read more... )

Films: Just the one this month, Burn After Reading, which was odd, and fun, and decidedly better in the second half than the first. I'm not sure how come John Malkovich looked ten years older than the last time I saw him, and Brad Pitt looked ten years younger.

Books: The Seventy Seven Clocks, Christopher Fowler. The third Bryant and May novel, ( Read more... )

Films: Yay, finally saw a few more films this month. Brief reviews here.

Books: Vicious Circle and Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey. The second and third Felix Castor novels respectively, these books are set in a Buffyesque London, right about now, but the dead are walking and doing a hell of a lot more besides. These books are as much about ( Read more... )

I think my efforts to break the work/slump cycle have paid off, and I've actually done a bit more this month than previously...

Films: Finally, we got around to watching some new films. Eight new films, to be exact. Brief reviews here and here.

Books: The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, is an odd story, about a bookish young woman ( Read more... )

This month I are mostly been working, or slumping, so this is going to be short:

Films: For the second month in a row, I've not seen a single new-to-me film.

Books: I finally finished The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. This really deserves a post of its own, but in summary it wasn't nearly half as clever as it thought it was, not nearly as ( Read more... )

This month I have mostly been walking and working, so there's very little to report in the way of diversions...

Films: None. Nada. Zip. I have watched not a single new-to-me film in the past month :-(

Books: I am still persevering with The Golden Notebook, which is slowly becoming less insufferable, mainly because, halfway through, Lessing has ( Read more... )

The original post about what I read/watched/listened to/otherwise entertained myself with in May is here; as coalescent correctly noted, it was a week early. As I pointed out to him, not much was going to change in that final week ( Read more... )

I feel like the "it's been a busy month" thing is becoming the norm... but here goes anyway:

Films: I think I've actually seen only one new film in the last month. So lucky for me it was 3:10 to Yuma, which had Christian Bale, Russell Crowe and lots of Big Man Angst. Yum.

Books: Finally got around to finishing London Revenant by Conrad Williams ( Read more... )

Another busy month, but somehow we managed to fit in a fair bit:

Films: Very few this month - here in brief - although I did finally get to see Brokeback Mountain which was beautiful and tragic and awesome.

Books: London Revenant, Conrad Williams - still making my way through this slowly. It's good, but confusing when so much of it is written ( Read more... )