I watched a bit of Buffy season 2 over lunch and dinner yesterday. I used to have season 2 recorded on VHS from a Fox8 marathon. I have the DVDs now, but hadn’t watched them before. Buffy had just killed Angel, run away, her friends were wondering where she was and the credits rolled. Then… […]
Entertainment
The Christ Files
Good Friday, 12noon, Channel 7 was a documentary by John Dickson, The Christ Files. It’s supposed to be a historical exploration of the facts behind the stories about Jesus. I didn’t get home in time to watch it so I searched for a review of it. I’d hoped to find something thought out, critical (positive […]
Sorry to see you go…
Dang. I’ve been on holidays for a couple of months so any exposure to the news that I got through other people has essentially gone. It was pure chance that I turned the TV on today and it was on the aerial channel rather than the DVD channel. I saw a tiny snippet of news […]
Death Proof: a movie by Quentin Tarantino
We saw Death Proof tonight. It was a choice between that and Death at a Funeral. Gee, did it feel like the wrong choice. Glenj summed it up nicely when he said “The best part of that movie was the Beowulf trailer at the start.” An IMDB reviewer was right on when they said, Tarantino […]
The Kingdom
We saw The Kingdom last night. Having read the one sentence synopsis on IMDB it wasn’t what I was expecting. If I had seen the trailer or looked at the official website I might have been expecting something closer to what I saw. Even then, it was quite “sobering” (was the word my husband used) […]
Stepping into eBooks
I’m breaking into the big bad world of eBooks! Actually there’s nothing really ‘big’ or ‘bad’ about it, it’s more like ‘growing’ and ‘kinda cool’. I’m not even really “breaking into” it since I’m not writing, just reading. 😛 My reasons? Well, I was doing a bit of coding on the train and decided I […]