Top film; brainless (but loveable) fun, classic rogue-turned-good tale. Acting was superb, as you’d expect from Mel and Helen Hunt, and as long as you didn’t think too closely about that plot you’re fine. It’s also the first film I’ve seen in Dolby Digital 5.1. The set-up isn’t tuned properly (moving house in about 10 […]

Pleasingly faithful to the book, and seemingly heavily inspired by the film (the sets look like the film, as do the avatars, and the voices & music also sound like the film). Anyway, it’s a thid-person perspective 3D game (like Tomb Raider, although a less impressive graphics engine) where you explore Hogwarts, learning spells solving […]

I was a bit disappointed with Unbreakable – after all the hype about ‘this year’s Six Sense’ I was expecting a similarly engaging and suprising film. The film itself is fine, I guess. Bruce Willis continues to impress me as a versitle and talented actor, and as usual Samuel L. Jackson is the man. Also a […]

First of all the DVD is fantastic – hours and hours of material. Everything you could possibly want to know about Apollo 11 and the moon landing – flight plans NASA’s archive footage.. the whole bamboozle. Plus the now standard commentaries (I didn’t have the DVD long enough to check these out), cast and crew […]

Another week gone by. I must give another quick plug to it’s your turn a really good online board-gaming environment. I tend to make one or two chess moves a day in games I’m playing with friends, and it’s a nice way to play chess and stay in touch! You’ll find a link on the […]

Go see. This weekend. I saw it last Saturday (paid preview at Harrogate Odeon), and really enjoyed it. I’m a huge fan of the books, and was deeply impressed by the translation to screen – with the sole exception of Richard Harris as Dumbledore, who was very disappointing. Of course, loads of the book was […]

Harry Potter – Go see. This weekend. I saw it last Saturday (paid preview at Harrogate Odeon), and really enjoyed it. I’m a huge fan of the books, and was deeply impressed by the translation to screen – with the sole exception of Richard Harris as Dumbledore, who was very disappointing. Of course, loads of […]

Went to the ballet last night – saw Nutcracker by the Moscow ballet at the Leeds Grand. Really enjoyed it, actually.. the perfomance was technically very competant (in as much as I know anything about ballet), and very enjoyable to watch the dances to the familiar tunes (gotta love Tchaikovsky), the costumes were fantastic, as […]

November! Went to the Leeds climbing wall last Tuesday, which was great. Going to try and go every week for a bit – at least until moving house issues come well and truly into the fore. No other excitements really – can’t wait to see Harry Potter!!

I actually now really regret not seeing it at the cinema. Strange film, in many ways.. I found it very slow in getting off the ground, and a lot of things only really made sense when I watched it with the director’s and screenwriter’s commentary on (oh the wonders of DVD). Very enjoyable though – fantastic […]