Posted in movies & tv, miscellaneous on Aug 28th, 2010 2 Comments »
If you’ve read the last post, you know I went to see a movie yesterday afternoon. It was a mostly pleasant experience, and would have been more pleasant if the young teenage girls in the same row had stopped talking, rustling plastic bags, and using their mobile phones which lit up the area like a […]
Posted in humour, movies & tv on Jul 31st, 2010 No Comments »
The Vicar of Dibley is laugh out loud funny. I do love a good nonsensical, absurdist comedy.
Posted in family & friends, movies & tv on Jul 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
Bella is still annoying. So is Edward. Jacob still doesn’t seem to have any shirts to wear. But for all that, it was better than the previous two movies. The fight scenes were good, the wolves looked realistic, and it was actually funny in parts, however, the vampire deaths were lame (Buffy did this so […]
Posted in movies & tv on Jun 4th, 2010 2 Comments »
Lucky me caught a mild cold this week, so I had a couple of days off work. In between sleeping, making soup, and taking herbal remedies, I watched some movies. One of them was Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp. While it was a fantastic film, with great actors - […]
Posted in movies & tv on Apr 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Saw Beneath Hill 60 today with Mum and Dad. It’s a very interesting story about our WWI military history that few would know. The film doesn’t glorify war, on the contrary, it shows it for what it is - absolutely gruesome. For all the explosions and shooting and carnage, the movie does a good job […]
Posted in movies & tv on Apr 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Is John Cusack in trash like “Hot Tub Time Machine”? Did he fall down and hit his head?
Posted in family & friends, movies & tv on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Spent most of the day with my Mum. We went to Roseville to see Nowhere Boy, and then returned home for toast and tea and stories of her youth. Mum grew up in what was then rough-and-tumble Maroubra. The local boys would attempt to paddle makeshift boats of corrugated iron, road tar and wood to […]