Another month where I didn’t do a lot or go out much – too bloody cold for me! I did actually drive the car for the first time in 2023 – only for about a mile to pick Jayne up from work, but it still thwarted my ambition to go a couple of whole months […]
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January 2023
February 1st, 2023 · Comments Off on January 2023 · Life
This year I have been trying to keep track of what I am up to. Not keeping a diary as such, just noting down various stuff. The reason is that when it comes to the end of a year I look back and can’t remember much of anything.
Playing catch-up
February 8th, 2021 · Comments Off on Playing catch-up · Life
During the last few days I have been doing some catching up with watching some things I have been putting off for a while, with mixed levels of enjoyment.
The Final Countdown
July 21st, 2019 · Comments Off on The Final Countdown · Life, Technology
This evening, for no particular reason, I watched the film The Final Countdown on Amazon. I had seen it before, probably more than once, but fancied an unchallenging film to pass the time. Its a bit like the Philadelphia Experiment, with a modern warship going back in time. In this case its the aircrat carrier […]
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Favourite films
August 16th, 2016 · Comments Off on Favourite films · Life
The current trend on Twitter is for people to list their seven favourite films using the hashtag #fav7films. I wonder if anybody has yet posted this: Police Academy Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Police Academy 3: Back in Training Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach Police Academy 6: […]
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The Hateful Eight
May 24th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Hateful Eight · Life
At the weekend I watched the latest Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, which I had a slightly strange reaction to. It is not that I didn’t enjoy it but rather that I enjoyed it more in retrospect than I did at the time. This is partly because it is a very long film which takes […]
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Spectre
February 24th, 2016 · Comments Off on Spectre · Life
Tonight I watched the latest Bond film on DVD. I had prepared for it by watching the previous Daniel Craig Bond films last week. It is undeniably spectacular, with lots of things you would expect from a Bond film – car chases, boat chases, epic stunts, arch-villian set on world domination, secreat HQ for the […]
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Overthinking the Hunger Games
August 13th, 2014 · Comments Off on Overthinking the Hunger Games · Life
Over the weekend I finally got round to watching the two Hunger Games films. I should have enjoyed them more, and if only I had remembered to do what I was told to at school I probably would have done. All the way through the films I kept wondering how on Earth actors of the […]
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Machete happens
May 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on Machete happens · Life
This evening I watched the film Machete Kills on DVD. What a strange film. I can see why it got so many bad reviews, but I’m not sure they are all entirely deserved because in many ways it is supposed to be bad isn’t it? It is either a pastiche of grindcore films, an homage […]
Where does he get those wonderful toys?
April 7th, 2014 · Comments Off on Where does he get those wonderful toys? · Life
Right now I’m l’m listening to Prince’s soundtrack to the Batman film. I don’t care what anybody else thinks, but I liked that album when it came out and it is still good to listen to now. It got me to thinking about the Batman films, and thinking about two things in particular. Firstly it […]
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