These are very late The Day After Tomorrow – contains extended scenes of peril (never!) I like a good disaster flick. Be it flaming meteoroids hurtling towards Earth, Shirley Winters drowning on a capsized ship or the core mysteriously slowing down – I say bring it on. This is a very enjoyable way to waste [...]
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the shape of things
Posted: 06/05/2004 in culture, london life, theareTags: neil labute, the shape of things, theater
Loved it and Neil Labute rocks. The cast is awesome. The staging and set is v Ian Schrager. Faith restored in the medium of the theatre…..a flutter of air kisses and luvees all round.
oleanna plus romeo & juliet equals cher
Posted: 06/01/2004 in culture, london life, theareTags: Aaron Eckhart, culture, David Mamet, Globe Theater, Julia Stiles, Oleanna, Romeo & Juliet, theater
Book-ending my trip north was some memorable nights out – the theatre trips were disappointing so the winner by a mile was the woman in her fifties belting out songs whilst prancing around in a thong:) It feels as if Cher has been doing her farewell tour for years but apparently this is it and [...]
1. Original Stars Wars trilogy 2. Indiana Jones trilogy 3. Withnail and I 4. Grosse Pointe Blank 5. Highlander 6. Thelma and Louise 7. Jurrasic Park 8. Practical Magic 9. Blade Runner nb. I just wanted to clarify that I don’t keep a log of all the films I watch….I just know which ones I [...]
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day….so we sat about surfing the internet
Posted: 04/11/2004 in books, culture, filmsTags: books, films, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea
After stagnating on ‘Jude the Obscure’ for nearly a month, I set myself the challenge of racing Radio 4′s Book @ Bedtime to see who could finish ‘Jane Eyre’ first. Since I am not restrained to fifteen minutes Monday to Friday, it is no surprise that I have won I found it rather unsettling – [...]
Faith restored
Posted: 03/24/2004 in culture, filmsTags: films, scottish films, wilbur wants to kill himself
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself is an extraordinary film that has an old fashioned flavour with a twist of Capra. It is set in Glasgow and is the tale of two brothers who are left to run their father’s run down second hand bookshop. Harbour is the sensible one and protective of his troubled, younger [...]
Run me a bath I feel cheated and dirty….
Posted: 03/22/2004 in culture, filmsTags: angelina jolie, bad films, films, taking lives
I have a pretty high tolerance for bad movies. Give me an entertaining or visually pleasing picture that are either flawed or otherwise vacuous (The Core, Fast and the Furious, GI Jane, Terminator or Alien 3 to name a few) and you wont here me complain. Unfortunately, Taking Lives built itself up to be a [...]
Dusting off my compassion
Posted: 03/21/2004 in books, culture, daily lifeTags: book group, books, flowers for Algernon, illness
Oh my, what a busy few days – I was so glad when they let me finish my shift early so I could amble home and slump in front of the computer. Hard enough being a dynamic, multi tasking, 21st C gal but throw in a sick Alex and even I am struggling to keep [...]
Arts imitation of life.
Posted: 03/18/2004 in culture, daily life, films, RadioTags: films, new york, nicole kidman, the interpreter, United Nations NYC
For the first time in the history of the UN a film is being shot on site, The Interpreter, and this was my shallow motivation for visiting last weekend. As it turned out the tour around the building and learning about it’s history were far more interesting than spying on the extra’s milling around. Our [...]
