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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 that [...]

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 can’t help but [...]

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) [...]

Watching Buffy, the final episode of season 4, I have realised something that I never have before. Funny, since I’ve seen it so many times.
The final slayer comes to kill them in their dreams because of a spell they cast, invocing the slayer’s power. I thought that the first slayer just ripped out all of [...]

I didn’t notice until a lecturer pointed it out this week Gattaca, the name of the movie, is a combination of the four DNA bases GATC. Clever!
We’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, and apparently we’re teaching the machines, in fact the machines are us.