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Movie reviews
Stranger than fiction: Clever and witty and touching and happy and sad. Also, Dustin Hoffman's in it. I liked it a lot.
Pan's Labyrinth: Pretty good. Less time spent in fantasy land than I had expected. Time spent in reality even more brutal than I expected, and I'd been told it was brutal. My hypersensitivity to overlong movies kicked in very ( Read more... ) -
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As the mornings get darker, I wish to alert you all to something I wrote a little while ago about dawn simulators, not just because it's brilliantly written, but because it truly does make my winter so much happier, and I want you all to be happy too. -
Movie reviews
The Prestige - Firstly, the poster I see everywhere is rubbish. The movie's excellent, though - a couple of 19th Century stage magicians have a grudge against each other and, er, lots of stuff happens. One of those "plotty" films that I love so much, plus I love magic, so, you know, sold.
The Departed - Pretty good, Marky Mark is excellent but not ( Read more... ) -
Firefox 2.0 problem
When I select some text, and do right-click to select "search google for selection", then OH NO, now it doesn't necessarily use google; it uses whatever search engine I have currently selected up in the search toolbar. I keep searching wikipedia and the IMDB for things by mistake. ANNOYING. Anyone figured out how to fix that yet? I want it to ( Read more... ) -
I ♥ Huckabees
I was expecting this to be a marmite movie, a love-it-or-hate-it thing, but as it was I thought it was quite fun, without actually loving it.
I'm pretty much game for anything with Dustin Hoffman in it I think. -
films again
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story. Weird, clever, funny, liked it.
Infernal Affairs. Excellent, twisty, cops vs Triads thriller. Took four of us to keep track of the plot but that's alright. Currently in the process of being remade in Hollywood, starring Jack Nicholson, amongst others. Trailer for the Hollywood version looks alright, actually, ( Read more... ) -
Zoolander
There's a newly free film channel in the UK (FilmFour), so I'm spending a lot of time in front of the telly these days.
Zoolander - Pretty funny. My favourite bit was when his idiot buddies are frolicking in the sun, spraying petrol on each other.
Some friends are coming over to watch "Infernal Affairs" tomorrow night, looking forward to that. -
Duck Soup
Saw the ol' Marx Brothers flick Duck Soup today. Passed the time, but it shows its age (unsurprisingly). A few good laughs scattered around in it though - my favourite:
"When were you born?"
"I can't remember, I was just a little baby."
