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A Christmas of Films

04/01/12

If anything has marked out this Christmas as something out of the ordinary it's been the quality and variety of the films I've seen. As usual much respect to the great Dr Kermode for pointing me in the right direction for some of the less obvious choices. Some of these are DVDs Santa Beth gave me, the others are movies I caught on iPlayer.  read more ...

Caught in the Horns ...

25/01/11

Of a what? Well, before you continue to read this posting I'd like you to pause and ask yourself how you spell the D word which is coming next ...  read more ...

Sex and the City 2

02/01/11

I rather ignored this movie when it came out as it got so universally panned, not least by Mark Kermode (of which more in a minute) but it's come back into my consciousness over the last couple of days.  read more ...

Shetland and Screenplay

06/09/10

I'll be posting something later about how I got to Shetland and home again but I wanted to make a separate posting here about Shetland itself because these have been some truly magical days ...  read more ...

Kermode on Avatar and 3D

30/03/10

Mark Kermode is one of my favourite people and his views on 3-D cinema (he thinks it's a con, largely being deployed to try to fight film piracy rather than because it makes films any better) are widely known - to the point where he could bore for England on it.  read more ...

Eastern Promises

04/01/10

I have been thinking some more about Eastern Promises which we watched last night and was one of my Christmas presents from Beth. ...  read more ...

Space

27/12/08

Two of my Christmas presents were space exploration DVDs. Apollo 13 had been recommended to me by friends ...  read more ...

Saturday

13/12/08

I'd like to tell you what a lot of useful things I did today ...  read more ...

Hellboy II

12/12/08

Tonight we watched Hellboy II: The Golden Army which is fresh out on DVD. You may remember my enthusiasm for Hellboy and in truth this is just more of the same ...  read more ...

More Partials

06/12/08

This evening, while watching Man of Fire I had another partial seizure...  read more ...

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