I just got back from watching There Will Be Blood, which picked up a couple of Oscars at the weekend. It’s a very good film, wonderfully shot and thought-provoking: it’ll take me quite some time to digest this meaty meal of a movie. I much preferred it to the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old […]
I went to see The Golden Compass on Wednesday, despite having been invited by a Christian friend to join a Facebook group inviting people to boycott the film, warning that it “promotes atheism”. It’s based on Northern Lights, first in the His Dark Materials trilogy written by Philip Pullman , which is certainly very critical […]
The trailer for the film of Northern Lights, the first in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is now online. I’m rather apprehensive about this film. I love Pullman’s trilogy as much as disagree with his anti-God polemic. Any film adaptation would have to be pretty special to do justice to the books. I’m rather […]
My cold thankfully didn’t last long. Yesterday morning I took myself to bed with a tissue role, some sweets and my laptop with which to watch Attack of the Clones on DVD (in preparation for seeing Revenge of the Sith later this year, because I hadn’t seen it yet). It seemed to do the trick! […]
Yesterday evening I went with some friends from CU to the cinema, and we watched A Very Long Engagement, the French film starring Audrey Tautou as Mathilde. She lives in hope that her fiancé Manech, who was sent to fight in the trenches of the First World War and has been reported dead, is alive. […]
I just came across this poster and trailer for the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy film. Oooh. Looks good! It’s out on May 6th – I’ll have to remember to go and see it.