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 […]
Posted in ordinary joys, movies & tv on Dec 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Since The Informant wasn’t playing in town for reasons unknown - it was playing everywhere else - Tom and I saw Where The Wild Things Are instead. I was curious to see how Spike Jonez was going to translate a 10-sentence picture book into a feature film, but figured that anyone with the imagination to […]
Posted in movies & tv, miscellaneous on Nov 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Don’t waste your time reading the book or watching the movies. Check out the spoofs on YouTube instead, like these ones:
Twilight trailer (Make sure you stay ’til the end.), Twilight with Puppets, and Twilight the Musical (”I know what you are.” “Say it. Say it out loud.” “Republican.”)
And that my friends, is the last thing […]
Posted in movies & tv on Nov 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
I just saw New Moon, the next installment in the Twilight franchise. Wasn’t expecting much after hearing and reading some reviews, and also because the first offering was so awful. From memory, I described it as the funniest movie I’d seen in a long time. Well, I can report that New Moon is better than […]
Posted in quirky bizarre, movies & tv on Sep 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Do you like IKEA and sitcoms? Then you’re going to love IKEA Heights - a humorous crime series filmed secretly in the Burbank, California store. (Warning: adult themes and language.) “This is a land of convenience and murder.” Sadly, only 4 episodes were made. But wait! There’s more! Stealing Beauty. ” … shot in IKEA […]
Posted in movies & tv on Aug 8th, 2009 8 Comments »
Director John Hughes died yesterday. The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone. Anyone growing up in the 80s would have seen at least one of these John Hughes films. I know I did. Nearly all of them, in fact. In a strange twist, the […]
Posted in movies & tv on Jul 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
After the highly stylised and entertaining Order of the Phoenix, the Half-Blood Prince was a disappointment. The story is patchy, key parts of the book were left out, the script was awful, and there were too many long, sweeping, swooping pans - I began to feel giddy after a while. The long awaited kiss between […]