20 February 2015
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I watched the Disney film Frozen last night and, frankly, was rather disappointed. Beautiful graphics, which we’ve learned to take for granted and plenty of emotional moments, because the film guys have learned how to combine words, images and music … Continue reading
12 December 2014
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Thanks to a kind gift, Jane and I recently got some vouchers that will allow us to go to a couple of cinema shows. Today we saw Paddington, which I would happily classify under amazing. I think there was a … Continue reading
22 November 2014
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Jane suggested going out to the cinema tonight, so we checked the local listings, looked at the trailers and managed to identify one film that held a certain amount of appeal for both of us (Interstellar although if it hadn’t … Continue reading
1 August 2014
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Often the book of the film disappoints. The better the book, the bigger the challenge to portray it, even with advances in computer graphics which enable the most incredible fantasies to be made real on the screen. This evening, I … Continue reading
1 July 2014
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Over the weekend, I was looking for a film to watch and discovered that Electric Dreams was available via YouTube: I am a little bit cautious about issues of copyright but, since the film has been up there for some … Continue reading
13 June 2014
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In one of Iain M Banks’ Culture series (Player of Games) there is a story about a tyrant who captures the library of another civilisation and, while not breaking a treaty by damaging any constituent part of the contents, desecrates … Continue reading
22 December 2013
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One thing I did get from yesterday’s trip to Sainsbury’s was a free copy of the film Christmas in a Day. This was sponsored by them and I think they used some snippets in their advertising this year but it … Continue reading
5 May 2013
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Tonight we watched Coraline, a stop-motion animation based on a story by Neil Gaiman. It is a fascinating piece of work, clearly drawing on well-established story telling tropes such as things coming in groups of threes and washed in a … Continue reading
30 November 2012
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Jane and I watched a Carry on movie last night (Carry on Camping), the first we have seen for a long time. I am not entirely sure that I have seen this particular film before although several of the scenes, … Continue reading
30 December 2010
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I seem to be watching a film tonight, following the latest crop exchanged among my family this Christmas. We’ve had Solomon Kane, Cowboy Bebop, TMNT, Iron Man, Inception and tonight it is the turn of Avatar; that is probably as … Continue reading