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Are we back?
We're back
Well, you may not believe it... you may wander round in a daze
thinking it's not real, that giraffes with propeller helmets is more
of a realistic idea... but you better believe it, this blog is back
back back baby! I could make a million excuses, but the simple answer
is I started typing a new blog very similar to what this one will be
about back in October/ November 2011 but then I lost it when the
computer crashed and for a while I clinged onto hope that I would
retrieve it... then time just got away with me and it was a case of
waiting to make the effort to get back in the game... so finally I am
making the conscious effort to get this blog up and running again, if
anything then to get my movie critic skills working at a faster speed
and provide a service to those who want a insight into my life and my
movie knowledge. So here it is, and as with all blogs in the past...
there's probably going to be a load of waffle before we get to the
subject at hand...
So given it's been a whole two years since the last blog surfaced and
blew all your minds (or more likely entertained mildly) it stands to
reason that a lot has happened since then... well this is true and
then again maybe not. Back in October 2011 when I first started the
concept for this particular blog subject, I was starting work at
Countrywide Surveyors in Warrington town centre, where I did some
admin work... it was a nice little place and I enjoyed my time there
(nice to work in a town centre because when you have an hour for
lunch you can get loads of shopping done not to mention a good range
of places to get lunch from, pure bliss!) until unfortunately the
place closed in May of last year (2012) and I found myself looking
for work again. I briefly found a placement doing Admin at the NHS in
Ince, but that only lasted about four days before I got made
redundant in a record amount of time... impressive I know! I then did
my job seeking thing again until last November when I interviewed and
got accepted for a job at a new place in Pemberton called Redrock
which deals with scanning files into the computer system, very much
like what I've done before for the NHS. I've worked there since and
it's perfectly OK for now, but definitely not a long term thing in
terms of jobs that I'd want to do professionally... but I sense a
greater job opportunity should be round the corner I just need to
pursue it and see where I go from here.
On more awesome levels, the past two years has been a hot bed of
utter wonder and delight when it comes to all the wonderful sexy and
cool people I've come to know as true friends and legends... to
happily list even just a handful, you have Pete (simply just the man,
the dude... the top guy, one of the funniest and coolest guys you
could ever meet), Bekkie (mad as a box of frogs but just so so
lovely), Laura and Jamie (not just a utterly kick ass cool and
awesome pairing, but very funny and Laura is just an utter legend
with her make up skills and the things she's helped me to do in
trying out new looks has really helped me uncover a side of myself
that I always wanted to unleash but never had the opportunity...
simply these guys are amazing!), Katie (the red haired delight who is
simply amazing and a delight to see every time I get the chance),
Sophielia (another make up expert but is simply kick ass and also
happens to have the greatest voice in music ever, it would make your
face melt!), Phil (a hilarious genius who makes awesome videos and is
simply so very witty and awesome), Zoe (utterly beautiful and a
sardonic delight), and I could genuinely go on and on and on... but
I'd never get anything done so here's a quick quick list: Robyn,
Steph, Francis, Maff, Hannah, Adam, Bekie, Quill, Louise, Scottish
Dayv, Bliss, Mark, Charlotte, Scott, Jay, Alistair, Emily, Bernie,
Nicole, Becca and Sam, Jack and Ros, Gavin, Lisa, Anthony, and so
many more... these last two years have been blissful thanks to these
guys! From picnics and makeovers to awesome cinema trips... this is
what life is about and I'm so blessed to have all these guys and more
in my life....
Two Years of
Cinema!
And since it's been a wholesome and crazy two years since I last
typed words that you read and thought 'hmm that's interesting' (this
is open to debate) there has been oh so many amazing movies to
discuss... so I'll just discuss more or less every single one vaguely
a few months at a time starting from October 2011 and going right
through to what's out this month and the rest of the year.
Firstly a quick TV update... a lot of the shows that were still going
strong back then are still going and still enjoyable (Glee, True
Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, Walking Dead, Homeland) and a few
have had solid finales (Fringe, Chuck, House) and there's a handful
of great new shows too (The Newsroom, Sleepy Hollow, Elementary)...
so all is better than ever in TV land, and I've not even started the
wonder that apparently is Breaking Bad, so stay tuned on that!
Back in the days of October of the year 2011, there was a range of
films but only a few were of real note... Johnny English Reborn hit
big and was a fun romp for the family whilst The Lion King made a big
3D comeback, Real Steel showed you can do decent robot punch 'em ups
whilst Don't Be Afraid of the Dark was a excellent spooky chiller and
Tintin was a big brash adventure romp... then November rolled in and
gave us... not much really, 50/50 was great and the first half of the
Twilight finale hit big and was alright, Tower Heist was passable
fun, and Arthur Christmas was an early whiff of festive magic from
Aardman, whilst In Time was an overlooked cracker of a sci-fi
thriller but as well as Moneyball, My Week with Marilyn and Take
Shelter, that was it really in terms of notable fare.
December rolled around, and with it brought some of the year's best
movies... from Martin Scorcese's family masterpiece Hugo, a real love
letter to cinema and the best 3D I've seen in a film to date.... via
the wonderful Puss in Boots and the pretty solid remake of Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo, not to mention the terrific Sherlock Holmes sequel
Game of Shadows and a pretty decent remake/ prequel to The Thing...
and things rounded off fantastically with the superb Mission
Impossible: Ghost Protocol which was a absolute treat on IMAX.
Then the new year rolled in and with it the sublime silent
masterpiece that was The Artist... as well as Oscar hopefuls The
Descendants and War Horse before heading into February via the
terrific superhero subversion of Chronicle... there was old style fun
in Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, dark chuckles in Young Adult, and one
of the funnest most lovely and awesome movies that ever came out in
the form of The Muppets, who came back into prominence with a big
bang!
So far so pretty good, but round rolled the Spring of 2012... and
whilst John Carter was big old fashioned fun, it apparently only made
an impact in how everyone was ready to pounce on it and start going
mental over the fact it wasn't the biggest movie ever made... I went
to a IMAX screening and there was an OK turn out so when you read
headlines saying 'No one sees John Carter' or 'everyone stays away
from John Carter' you just sit and think 'Well no, it's just they
wanted more money' because to be fair, a good amount of people saw
it, it's just that it needed so much more box office to succeed,
placing impossible expectations on it, ditto this Summer's Lone
Ranger, again not perfect but perfectly fun and yet unfairly
maligned... saying that, Lone Ranger is for the most part, all over
the place but once it gets to the finale, it can't be bettered. March
did also bring a whole bunch of fun movies, from the again perhaps
harshly slammed This Means War, which I really enjoyed... through to
the simply hilarious and wonderful 21 Jump Street (Channing Tatum
joining people I didn't care for suddenly on the list of 'he's
actually pretty damn awesome') and Hunger Games, a solid enough
adaptation of a simply amazing book... as well as Aardman's supremely
daft The Pirates, which is just golden. April was light on the
ground, but two films made up for that in spades.... Cabin in the
Woods, a fantastically savvy and crazy horror movie in the Scream
vein with one heck of a finale and of course, Marvel's big finale to
all their movies, The Avengers! Which had everything you needed in a
film... it was outrageously funny, dramatic, chilling, explosive and
supreme fun from start to finish... just one of the best films in
years!
Summer was well and truly under way... and it continued in nuanced
style I guess, May was full of solid fare with few stand outs,
notable exceptions being The Raid, a blistering action epic which was
simply knock out, and the sublime Wes Anderson romance Moonrise
Kingdom. You had a 3D re-release for Disney's master class Beauty and
the Beast, the American Pie had a Reunion which was terrific fun...
Depp and Burton united once more for fun Dark Shadows, and Jason
Statham played it Safe for a enjoyable action thriller, whilst Sacha
Baron Cohen did his usual routine with a bit less realism in The
Dictator with pretty funny results, whilst the Men in Black came back
for a third round which was much better than hoped for.
Flying into June, Prometheus had audiences gasping to see it and
discover it's secrets with a majority coming away a tad angry... to
be fair, it was never going to live up to the hype but it's a
interesting and intelligent sci-fi film with a fair share of flaws
but that still manages to be pretty good. Snow White and the Hunstmen
looked nice, but was overall very so so, Jaws made a welcome return
to the big screen, Red Lights was intriguing but ultimately failed to
live up to the promise that the director showed with Buried, and Rock
of Ages was huge cheesy fun with Tom Cruise simply killing it as the
big bad rock star, re igniting a slight crush I never knew I had.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was what it promised, dumb fun that
tries to be serious at points but should be just taken as popcorn,
and The Five Year Engagement was one of the year's best comedies... a
romantic comedy for everyone, and as July began... Spider-Man
returned, and whilst the villain was a bit weak... everything was so
terrific it kinda balanced it out, with Andrew Garfield proving the
Peter Parker we'd all been waiting for....
July saw a nice and fun documentary about Katy Perry that followed
her on tour (a tour that I saw her on, so when they mentioned
Liverpool I got a bit excited) and went a bit in depth about her
background and life... there was another Ice Age film which won't
change the world but provided a fun outing for me and my nephew,
whereas The Lorax was similar, innocuous family fun with a message.
The big news was the conclusion to Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, The
Dark Knight Rises which while probably the weakest of the few, was
every bit the masterpiece you'd expect.... just astounding, with the
IMAX scenes just thrashing any competition it ever would had.
August was very tepid for a Summer month... Ted was a terrific
comedy, very rude and crude but very very funny and pretty genius at
points, like a live action Family Guy style would be, and Berberian
Sound Studio was a chilling thriller with a terrific Toby Jones...
but otherwise, it was all very so so unfortunately... The Expendables
II had fun moments and Brave was solid enough Pixar, but Bourne
Legacy and Total Recall were both pretty lame, whilst The Watch was
fun but not that memorable. September proved better as Dredd made his
big comeback in a terrific action thriller that pulled absolutely no
punches and Lawless was a sublime crime thriller with a terrific cast
that also didn't like to pull a punch or two. Paranorman was one of
the year's best animations and Premium Rush was a top notch thriller
with Joseph Gordon Levitt on fine form... and speaking of Joe, the
sublime Looper was a future sci-fi classic with Bruce Willis never
better in a terrific tale of time travel and murder.
October proved the strongest month of the pack.... even if Taken 2
was a more silly copy of the first film with a lot of toned down
tones to secure a younger rating. You had animated treats such as
Madagascar: Europe's Most Wanted and Frankenweenie plus the fun Hotel
Transylvania... there was the clever and witty comedy drama Ruby
Sparks, and the simply beautiful The Perks of Being a Wallflower
which perfectly captured the trauma and beauty of youth with a
stunning soundtrack to boot... and best of all, James Bond 007 made a
hell of a comeback with Skyfall, not only one of the best James Bond
movies but one of the best action blockbusters in some years and the
year's strongest film.... simply an unmissable delight.
The cold nights of November came soon enough and with them a
collected shrug of shoulders for the first section, Skyfall was
reigning supreme and nothing was around to prove competition... not
for long though, as Ben Affleck's corker of a Oscar winner Argo
showed up and was just every bit as good as you've heard, whilst The
Master proved like There will be Blood to be a tricky bit of Paul
Anderson magic, not for everyone but if you surrender to it, you will
be captivated and struck. End of Watch was better than expected, both
thrilling and dramatic... whilst Gambit was a lot more fun than you'd
believe from the negative press. Nativity 2 was festive fluff, and
Silver Linings Playbook is exactly as electric as you'd expect from
the Oscar nominated cast, whilst Sightseers was a dark British
delight. Rise of the Guardians meanwhile, proves that Dreamworks
continue to make oh so many fantastic animated gems... with a great
heroic tale that fuses festive delight with dark adventure origins...
such a treat!
December rolled around and things got a lot colder, as they are want
to do... but thankfully Seven Psychopaths warmed things up with a
witty and twisted tale that refused to play by the rules and proved a
divisive but delightful treat, and of course, the first part of the
Hobbit movies hit and was as wonderful as you could hope for from a
first part... big in scale, with humour and action yet a sense of
incompleteness... thankfully the second part looks so good, and the
wait is almost over! December also managed to give us the cracking
Cruise action fest Jack Reacher, the beautiful fable of Life of Pi
(one of the small number of films that proves 3D still has a place)
and the terrific musical comedy Pitch Perfect, aca scuse me?
January of the year of 2013 came around nicely with all the freezing
cold and snow that it entails, and with it came a bunch of stellar
knockout movies! Arnie came back with the fantastically fun and wacky
The Last Stand, there was the enjoyable action romp Gangster Squad,
Spielberg's presidential epic Lincoln with a knockout turn from
Daniel Day Lewis, plus Kathryn Bigelow's terrific war thriller Zero
Dark Thirty... plus the two big guns, musical masterpiece Les
Miserables, with a terrific cast throughout (yes including the
untouchable Russell Crowe, who is just terrific!) and some wonderful
music and drama... and Quentin Tarantino flew back in with the
magnificent Django Unchained, a terrific tale of revenge with
cracking turns from Leo Dicaprio and Samuel.L.Jackson.
February started to get a little less cold if still snowy, but the
films were pretty damn good fun... on the lesser side, Robert
Zemeckis made his live action comeback with Flight which boasted a
great turn by Denzel Washington but overall the film was less than I
hoped it could be, whilst A Good Day to Die Hard was simply terrible
and should be ashamed of itself. Plus Hansel and Gretel: Witch
Hunters was passable trash but little else. On the better side, Warm
Bodies was a sweet and witty take on the zombie genre with charming
leads and a mix of action and witty humour... and Cloud Atlas was
possibly the year's most intriguing prospect... a stunning cast all
playing multiple roles over a very long sprawling and fascinating
story... certainly not one for everyone, but everyone still needs to
see it to make their own mind up as it is essential viewing as an
audacious experiment in movie making. This is 40 meanwhile was a
solid spin off from Knocked Up, which isn't quite as uniformly
excellent as that movie was, but is good fun with a great cast and is
certainly well worth checking out, mainly because any film with Paul
Rudd, Chris O'Dowd and John Lithgow all in the same film is a must!
The must-see movie of the month though was Wreck it Ralph, Disney's
Toy Story-like take on video game characters... which managed to very
funny, very charming, very heart warming and very fun and remains one
of my favourite's of the year and is up there with Tangled in the how
much I love it stakes! Which takes us through to the warmer but still
chilly month of March and it's varied delights which range from the
generic but fun likes of GI Joe: Retaliation via the heart warming
and delightful Robot and Frank as well as Danny Boyle's terrificly
twisty thriller Trance and the thrilling hi jinks of Bryan Singer's
Jack the Giant Slayer which matched Lord of the Rings style thrills
with Princess Bride style spills, whilst Jim Carrey stole the show in
underrated magician's comedy Burt Wonderstone. The big one for March
though was Sam Raimi's wonderful prequel to the Wizard's adventures
in Oz: The Great and Powerful, which was a fantastic fun family
adventure with the usual creepy Raimi touches and a terrific cast of
fun faces, plus the 3D was top notch which is always a welcome
relief.
Easter came around and the weather brightened slightly, though in
April the movies weren't that bright... sure there was Iron Man III,
which proved the best of the three and was just terrific from start
to finish and benefitted from the masterful Shane Black taking the
reins of the franchise and injecting some great dialogue and dynamic
plot turns to one of the year's biggest and best blockbusters. Not
only that, but one of the year's finest movies came along with Derek
Cianfrance's powerful drama The Place Beyond the Pines, boasting
masterful turns from both Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper as well as
a great dramatic story that spans the years and lives of it's
characters... it's a real treat and well worth checking out.
Otherwise all we had in April was the visually rich but a bit
predictable Tom Cruise Sci-Fi Oblivion, the lesser of the White House
attack movies in Olympus has Fallen which was fun but a bit hollow...
and then we flew into May where we encountered the fun frolics of
Epic, yet more fantastically fun races and chases in Fast and Furious
Six, the finale of the comedy series that was The Hangover (Part III)
which proved to be more enjoyable and funny than it's predecessors
despite reviews and views that said otherwise... and the month's main
attraction was J.J Abram's returning for another round at the Star
Trek universe with Into Darkness... which was a fantastic blockbuster
full of thrills and spills, if never quite being as solid as the
first terrific installment proved to be...
Finally this year's Summer months arrived and with them a few more
solid movies... and thankfully nothing I saw was less than solid. It
says something when probably the weakest of the movies I saw was
Despicable Me 2 which was fun and funny but nothing to how much I
love the first movie. Blockbusters proved worth the wait as World War
Z bucked all expectation I had that it'd be a complete mis fire and
turned out to be not only very exciting and pretty chilling but also
just a really darn great film in general... whilst Man of Steel
brought Superman back in major style... the film has a ton of
problems, majorly that whilst the dramatic heft of the movie (the
slow character moments) are truly well done and really hit the
heartstrings, when the film descends into a ton of action it becomes
an incoherent mess at times which is a true shame, as the
performances and the effects are never less than top notch and it
makes a great effort to bring the legend up to date for our times in
a realistic manor ala Dark Knight. If you want a really great fun
time though, This is the End was the perfect ticket as Seth Rogen,
Jonah Hill and a whole host of other favourite comedy faces faced the
apocalypse by hiding at James Francos house... it was very very funny
from start to finish, boasted a stellar cast with a whole load of
surprise cameos and even managed to be spooky and action packed at
points too, a real treat!
The main month of the Summer was as always July, and again there was
some good and some not as great movies flying around... thankfully
all pretty darn good in some way or other! Now You See Me had a
terrific cast in a fun and exciting tale of magicians and heists that
is great fun until a stupid last minute twist almost undoes it all by
being very very unbelievable. There was a truly great Pixar prequel
with Monsters University, which managed to be both very very funny
throughout and yet still make you care about the characters and the
story they went through... there was the finale of the Cornetto
trilogy as Edgar Wright guided Nick Frost and Simon Pegg to The
World's End which again was incredibly funny but also dark and
poignant too, one of my absolute favourites of this year... and Hugh
Jackman returned as The Wolverine is a terrifically enjoyable comic
book thriller which managed to spend a good deal of time on the
character and drama yet still deliver the good's action wise even if
a silly finale proved unnecessary. Pacific Rim though is the year's
finest blockbuster... you have Guillermo del Toro making giant robots
and giant monsters smack each other to pieces, what's not to love?
August finally arrived and man was it a mixed month for movies, a
relief frankly because I was spending a fantastic two weeks in the
sunny US of A having a whale of a time travelling around, seeing the
sights and eating lots! There was the sequel to RED (RED 2 funnily
enough) which was throwaway fun with a fine cast and plenty of fun
action, there was Elysium which was Neill Blomkamp's follow up to
District 9 which never quite scaled the heights of that classic but
was a pretty solid sci-fi drama throughout, with a great story and a
great lead in Matt Damon, full of great ideas and great sequences if
not overall a classic in the same way. Kick Ass 2 meanwhile was a
massive disapointment given how awesome the first movie turned out,
the characters are still fun and aspects are enjoyable but it's a
really pale shadow of a great first movie. The Lone Ranger meanwhile
was a bit all over the place but an admirable attempt to make a great
Western blockbuster, and whilst it drags for the mid section, once it
gets going at the finale it's pretty unbeatable in the fun action
stakes, whilst the cast are all having a lot of fun.
There was three truly tremendous pieces of fun cinema on offer in
August though... We're the Millers (which I saw in a lovely little
old style American theatre) was a terrifically funny little road
movie with a decent Jennifer Aniston turn for once as well as a great
little cast of familiar trustworthy comedic faces all on fine form,
especially the great Nick Offerman who is well known as the wonderful
Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation as well as a funny cameo from Ed
Helms as a not very sinister drugs lord. The Way Way Back is a truly
lovely coming of age tale set during an American summer and one boy's
tale of growing up and gaining confidence during that Summer... again
it features a host of great faces, notably a terrifically fun Sam
Rockwell and a rare mean turn from Steve Carrell... and is just
utterly lovely and charming. Pick of the pack though was the big
screen debut for one Alan Partridge in Alpha Papa, one of the
funniest movies to ever come across in a long while and gloriously
enjoyable from start to finish with a deft spin on a classic plot
contrivance and a terrific soundtrack to go along with it... a ha
indeed!
Riddick was enjoyable enough and Vin Diesel proved the man once more
in the role whilst RIPD was actually pretty fun if pretty stupid, and
Rush proved a terrific biopic even for those who don't like racing
that much. September though was all about two movies both of which
were just terrific from top to bottom. About Time arrived at the
start of September, and a new Richard Curtis movie is always
anticipated in equal measure to the scepticism that surrounds it.
Thankfully I fall on the side of getting excited, as Curtis movies
are always pretty funny and make you feel all nice and lovely to
boot, and About Time is a terrific romantic comedy that also doubles
as a drama about appreciating your parents while they are around,
it's loveably funny and really moving when it needs to be as well as
copying Groundhog Day to good effect while never coming off bad for
it.
There's nothing better than a terrific blockbuster, a movie that
entertains thoroughly and can be cheesy and goofy while still being a
blast from start to finish, it can be touching if needed and it can
be very very funny even whilst supposing to be a big action movie....
White House Down does it all! Channing Tatum surprises once more by
being a charming and funny presence in the Bruce Willis role of what
is essentially Die Hard in the White House, whilst everyone from
Jamie Foxx as the President and Richard Jenkins as one of the
Secretarie's, through to James Woods and Jason Clarke on baddie
duties are all having a ball and having fun.... more blockbuster's
should be like WHD, it takes you back to the late 90's and films like
The Rock, Face Off and Con Air... proper explosive and funny fun...
something October's Escape Plan manages pretty well too, as Sly and
Arnie bicker in Prison and try to escape.
October and we're bang up to date, two years on from the last blog
and another bunch of decent movies... from the fun tunes of Sunshine
on Leith, Dexter Fletcher's musical based on the songs of The
Proclaimers, via the daft action of Machete Kills, a completely
bonkers action fest that suddenly jumps into sci-fi at the end as Mel
Gibson turns into Hugo Drax and Machete becomes James Bond in a
hilarious remake of Moonraker, through to the terrific high sea
thrills of Captain Phillips, as Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks team up
to tell the true story of the American captain whose tanker vessel
was boarded by Somali pirates and the tense trials that followed,
truly tense and terrific, it's well worth seeing. Oh and Turbo was
alright I guess, fun premise but a very ho hum tale in the end. One
of my favourite things though was the sequel to one of my favourite
animated movies of the last few years (saying that it was around 4
years ago so more than a few) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and
though not many sequels are quite on 100% par with their predecessor
(Hello Despicable Me) this came awfully close to being as mentally
funny and imaginative, with a ton load of food puns, colorful ideas
and characters, and just being really funny and charming from start
to finish... it's just terrific fun and such a joy to enjoy!
As for the rest of the year? Well, there's no need to venture in 2014
just yet but suffice to say a lot of similar big movies will be
heading this way plus some old favourites... but for the rest of
2013, there's a few big treats still in store, just this week sees
the return of Thor in The Dark World, by the time you read this I may
have seen it, and I'll say it's fantastic because it's pretty
inevitable from what I've heard. November sees a variety of treats
from Ridley Scott's dark thriller The Counsellor with a stellar cast
and a gritty crime story via Joseph Gordon Levitt's comedy drama
directorial debut Don Jon, the science fiction thriller extravaganza
that is the critically adored US box office smash Gravity, the horror
remake of Carrie with the terrific Chloe Grace Moretz, James Franco
and Jason Statham face off in thriller Homefront, Disney return with
wintery animation Frozen, Harry Hill makes his big screen debut in,
well Harry Hill the Movie; there's the Spike Lee remake of classic
Korean thriller Old Boy, and Ben Stiller tries for kudos in comedy
drama epic The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The biggest of the big though are a few lovely delights heading your
way.... there's the inevitable second part of The Hobbit series,
which is The Desolation of Smaug, which will see Bilbo and the band
of dwarves reach the lair of the nefarious dragon Smaug to reclaim
the gold and get into a whole host of scrapes, that reaches the good
old UK on Friday December 13th so be ready... a bit
earlier than that, on November 21st sees the return of
Katniss and Peeta as events and revolution spiral and conspire to
take them back into the arena to once again fend for their lives in
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, expect all the excitement and drama
you had in the first installment only bigger and bolder as the
franchise takes flight and gets a bigger budget and bigger stars.
What could be more exciting than a biopic than involves the character
of Walt Disney? Only the fact that Tom Hanks is playing the great man
and that the story revolves around the creation of Mary Poppins, one
of the most wonderful movies ever made! The lovely Emma Thompson will
be playing the role of author P.L Travers in the story of her life as
her book Mary Poppins is to be into a movie, and the trials she faces
as she meets with Walt Disney to adapt the novel... early word is
terrific and I really can't wait to see the final result when it hits
these shores on November 29th. Best of all, Ron Burgundy
is back! On December 20th, Ron Champ Brick and Brian
return to the big screen for ton more laughs and improvised madness
in Anchorman: The Legend Continues... with a whole host of new faces
and a new setting as the team witness and indulge in the start of 24
hour news, excitement is high to fall madly in love with the Channel
4 News Team once more....
And that catches things up, for Movies and TV and a bit of my life in
general... I've waffled so long that this will now be a two part
blog... suffice to add in the past week whilst typing I've had a ton
of awesome parties that I've attended which involved dressing up as
David Bowie, something I'm so chuffed and thrilled by it's kinda
unspeakable, plus I got to be a pretty hot red head too at some
point... the greatest thing about this time of year is getting to
dress up in all manner of awesome costumes, and it's something I
simply love doing!
So anyway, please stay tuned later in the week to find out about
something very very spooky.....
You stay classy, Planet Earth
