Last week we watched Your Highness, so in reparation for our sins it was The Big Sleep this time round. I really don't think I followed it all, but it was certainly awesomely cool on the way.

We've just come back from jack-ryder's new experimental-improv-theatre-thing, Tweatre wherein live tweets (in one case, actual spam) get turned into performance. It's on most of this week for those in Sydney.

Likewise, for those so blessed, come along to kylaw's book launch next week, for The Land of Bad Dreams. And by 'book launch', I mean performances by ( Read more... )

Saw Griff the Invisible this evening -- more Aussie weirdness, this case in the cause of superheroics. Probably best not to delve too deeply (and the trailer on the main site seems to give most of it away), but it was fun, and charming.

I'm going mad. Well, I saw the latest episodes of The Guild and Death Valley, and thought they were pretty funny, which is probably the same thing.

We've just seen The Square, in the fine tradition of weird Aussie crime flicks. Having said that, it all turns out a bit muddled, so lacks the power of some of its compatriots -- but there's some fine stuff on the way. The fact it was shot down in the Woronora Valley near us was also neat.

We've watched the first half of the new Underbelly, after making the (there-is-a-precedent-but-not-for-a-while) step of connecting up our TV receiver. Not quite convinced yet, although it certainly has some style. Putting Mental as Anything in a 1920 saloon seemed to work.

I also spotted K walking down a 1920s street, so that was all good.

More strangeness: last week I saw (500) Days of Summer. I saw 'I' because K took debunked on the flimsy prefix that one of her friends has Othello on (no doubt I should have gone, but am still sickly ( Read more... )

Last night we saw Summer Wars, upon recommendation. It's a strange anime of family solidarity and cyber-warfare. From a traditional daimyo homestead, Kenji and Natsuki must defend OZ (ie, the internet if Second Life ever took off) and the world from an AI super-villain called Love Machine ( Read more... )

We saw Limitless, which is well made and pretty cool -- though full of frustrating bits where we were berating the main character for being stupid. Given the nature of the movie, that's a bit sad ( Read more... )

I had high hopes for Portal 2 co-op, but we didn't quite make it. We got to test 7 (of 8) in the last category, but then got stuck, and back to the shop it goes. Given the sudden insane timing needed I'm not sure we would have got it in any reasonable time anyway (or there was some other solution I was overlooking ( Read more... )