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Category: Movie & TV Log

  • In past months…

    Been reading: – Across the Universe by Beth Revis is a YA generation ship story, the first in a series – I thought it explored a lot of interesting ideas, although I felt it suffered a bit from ‘stupid character’ syndrome (ie. the main characters taking ages to figure out something that the reader has…

  • Ice

    (Photograph taken by my father in Antarctica, where he worked for a year when he was about 23.) My father and I were watching the first half of Shackleton last night, the miniseries with Kenneth Branagh as Shackleton. I have always enjoyed stories of Antarctic expeditions, probably because of hearing my own father’s stories, but…

  • Read & Watched in March

    This March: – I watched one and a half seasons of The Tudors for the first time, and am enjoying its lush and lavish scenery.  The frequent nudity is amusing –  I’m sure Cardinal Woolsey often enjoyed nude massages by his mistress.  Henry is now getting a wee bit tired of Anne, and Jane Seymour…

  • Watching, reading

    I am watching The Incredible Hulk, without a great deal of attention – partly because it’s not a very good movie, and partly because I much preferred Eric Bana as Hulk. I know most people thought that movie was far too long and faux-arty, but I liked it. I like the origin story more than…

  • Movie Log – Da Vinci Code

    These were some of the fireworks I saw on the insanity that is Territory Day in Darwin (which means the ability for the general public to let off fireworks wherever they choose). Wandering around the video store (which despite the absence of videos I cannot seem to start calling the DVD store) with instructions to…