I went along to see ‘300‘ recently. It’s a belter of a movie. A non-stop visual feast, with thoroughly enjoyable - and very violent - special affects. A wonderfully stylised feel to the movie, in very much the same way as Sin City. No coincidence, as both films are based on Frank Miller’s Graphic novels. […]
Next week Hot Fuzz goes on nation-wide release. I’m really looking forward to it for a number of reasons. First, it’s by the same team behind “Shaun of the Dead”, one of the best British comedy films in years. If the trailer is anything to go by, Hot Fuzz is going to be just as […]
We’ve just got back from seeing Pan’s Labyrinth (courtesy of Frances’ parents giving us cinema ticket vouchers for christmas, for which: Thanks!). It was a memorable experience. An ‘adult fairy tale’, set in the Spanish civil war, told through the eyes of Ofelia. Moved from the city with her mother to stay with her step-father, a […]
We’ve just got back from a late screening of Casino Royale, which is a superb return to form of the Bond franchise. I can’t have been the only long-term Bond fan to have found the bravado, gadgets, explosions and chases getting far too much a characterisation of itself. Bond as a super-hero, with bad guys […]
As there was not much we were in a mood for last night, we settled down to watch ‘V for Vendetta‘. Its deals with a terrorist (or freedom fighter; you choose who is battling a totalitarian regime in a near-future vision of the UK (well, England). Rumour has it the original launch of 5th […]
I visited the cinema last night for the first time in about a year (I’m struggling to think of the last film I went to see, in fact), to see the new Martin Scorsese film, The Departed. This is a superb film in so many ways. Not least the sound track, which is exceptionally good and […]
OK, this isn’t a gadget per se, but it has proved to be really rather funky, and solved a dilemma I’ve had over the last few years quite nicely. The problem I have is I find that video rental shops are altogether rather depressing places, that they rarely have the films I want to watch in […]
I’ll confess that one of my guilty pleasures when reading a newspaper are bad film reviews. I suspect that film reviewers enjoy writing them almost as much as finding the glowing verbiage for a good review of a small budget film they’ve ‘discovered’, and want to impress on the world. The vernacular and imagery is […]
Phew. Well, we’ve just got back from seeing Episode III, and it was everything I’d hoped it’d be. It was also everything I feared it would be, but that’s beside the point. We knew there’d be the appalling dialogue, the no doubt frustrated actors doing their best for the director. It can’t be any coincidence that […]
Bits and pieces
All go at the moment, so only time for a brief update: Wedding plans are proceeding well. We’re being cautioned by friends to stay calm as the day approaches, and I think we are managing that quite well. Got quite excited picking up the rings, as well as getting to see the finished product for something […]