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  • Things I learned this weekend (exercise edition)

    ?Not every Daniel Craig Bond film is a triumph. Oh, but why did it have to be such a long, cold disappointment? There’s a marathon in July in Nova Scotia. So if I get myself into gear, I could combine the yearly trip home with running a very long way, wearing unattractive shorts. Everyone is […]

  • Don’t stop dreaming

    At three this morning I was woken from a frankly magnificent dream, a full cinematic number, full of exciting espionage, doublecrossing, palpable foreboding and amazing set pieces, as an escapee from a KGB bordello fled across Mexico and Siberia before being persuaded to turn into a double agent. It had all the elements required for […]

  • Jerry MacGuirre. No, Jerry McGuier. No, Jerry Maguierre

    Stuck on a long flight, unable to sleep, I watch blockbuster films that I’ve never seen, to try to understand what the fuss was all about. Today, I watched Jerry Macguirre. Or was it Jerry McGuire? Or did I imagine it all?

  • Too early

    Tonight I went to my Spanish class after work. My Spanish class starts on the 13th of January. I went home again.

  • Leaving Seattle again

    For our last night in Seattle, we stayed in the Maxwell Hotel, near Lake Union. It’s close to the Seattle Center but at 8:30 in the morning the area is a bit of a desert: there is nowhere to get breakfast, just some bars that are closed and a few condominium showrooms. I strapped La […]

  • Guardians Of The Galaxy

    Tonight we put the baby to bed and drove out to Dartmouth Crossing, a soulless collection of factory outlet shops, where there’s also a multiplex cinema with Guardians Of The Galaxy playing in 3D. We returned home just as our child woke up and started howling, so I have to admire some powers of synchronicity […]

  • Contagion

    This evening I went out for a few drinks, then came home and, with nothing better to do, downloaded Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s film about an epidemic. I remembered being very impressed by the trailer, back in 2011; Gwyneth Paltrow goes to Macau, gets a dose of flu, flies back to Minnesota and her husband, Matt […]

  • The loneliness of the long distance movie watcher

    I watched 21 Jump Street, Senna, The World’s End (dubbed into Spanish, apparently by one actor), Singles, Rush, the first five minutes of Veronica Mars and the whole of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Senna and Rush were particularly horrific, for all the sights of what used to count as safety equipment (a fat French bureaucrat […]

  • Transformers: Age Of The Letdown

    It’s a gift that keeps on giving, the endless disappointment of watching each Transformers movie. The latest, Age of Extinction, was touted as having exciting dinosaurs in it, but apart from a cursory prologue, the all-kinds-of-awesome Dinobots don’t figure in the story until the geographically confused final part, when Hong Kong turns out to be […]

  • Easter In Singapore

    Good Friday is a holiday in Singapore, but Easter Monday is not. One conclusion to draw from this is that the government is quite happy for people to celebrate the crucifixion of Jesus, but his resurrection is not worth commemorating. Is this a display of scepticism? Not thinking somebody who takes three days off at […]