Category Archive for 'Movies'

Discipline

On Sunday, we showed the youth the Nooma DVD - Noise. They coped remarkably well with a dominantly reading-the-screen type of movie. It is about silence. We managed 5-10 minutes of it afterwards.
I don’t make a habit of silence, not a set habit anyway. I can sit at home for hours in front [...]

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Fantastic

Oh my gosh. I found this totally by accident. It’s like the best Roald Dhal book ever!!! (Except George’s Marvelous Medicine would come a close second). And Wes Anderson, Cate Blanchet, Bill Murray… this means that they won’t even destroy it, it’ll be freaking amazing. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This is almost more exciting [...]

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Gold Stars

Due to her resplendent kindness (hehe) I’m going to share that my friend Jess has recently started blogging.
This is not her first endeavor - the last you might remember was Exchange Me, which very well would have gone ahead except for the fact that she wound up not going on exchange and so couldn’t write [...]

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Amends

I saw the movie Atonement tonight. Interesting. I liked it, but I probably wouldn’t make a return visit. Stunning period costume etc. and Keira Knightly is quite good (Despite being consistently annoying).
I was trying to recall what I knew about the word ‘Atonement’ before I went in. The straightforward term is as such: Satisfaction or [...]

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Lazy evening equation

Pizza + Boags St George + Firefly
and this is good news. Tim Burton set to redo Alice in Wonderland! A perfect couple!

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