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  • Great Character Moments in Film #4: THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT

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    (Spoiler alert.) A movie in the all-too slim category of Best Xmas Films Evah (with Action), THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT stars Geena Davis as an amnesiac undercover assassin – I know, right? what’s not to like! – whose past is coming back to bite her, then spin her around, then bite her again. The bf…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #3: IN THE LAND OF WOMEN

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    (Spoiler alert.) IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a great film with a title bad enough to be a novel title. Yeah, I’ve said it. Actually & tangentially, I once started putting together a list of ‘best movies with the worst titles, in history’ but it turned out to be mostly movies based on novels,…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #2: BOURNE IDENTITY

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    (With SPOILERS) BOURNE IDENTITY has so much to recommend it: it’s an action movie, an amnesia story (gosh, but I love amnesia stories) set in some of the more stunning parts of Europe, & it’s the movie where Matt Damon discovered he could be an action hero. Or, as Bourne has often been described, ‘the…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #1: SIXTEEN BLOCKS

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    (With SPOILERS) I just love the turn in SIXTEEN BLOCKS, the moment Bruce Willis goes from drunk deadbeat cop to hero. The entire movie spins on that point and even the camera spins, giving us Willis’s grim, slack face and his suddenly sharp & sober eyes. And he looks around, at the new world he’s…

  • So, my review of the film Hanna

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    It was fine.

  • Code 46: I’m not sure whether I’m recommending this film or not…

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    Code 46 grabbed me from the beginning, with its dark future, it’s brown open spaces and grey, constricted interior world. “Do you think the sun is as dangerous as they say it is?” “I hope not.”

  • Still here

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    I am not at WorldCon in Glasgow. I am here. At home. Doing nothing much of interest. I am here, waiting for benpayne to start blogging AS IF he is at WorldCon in Glasgow, even though I know he isn’t. I am waiting to hear more adventures of his made-up heroes, Brad & Angelina. They…

  • Chocolate Gender.

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    Chocolate gender. Chocolate. Gender. Chocolate. Chocolate. Chocolate. Gender. Gender. Gender. Yup, still sounds tasty. body_impolitic explains it here (with reference to Willy Wonka & Johnny Depp).

  • Well, yes & no

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    Further to my recent musing on the topic of ‘Yes’, by Sally Potter, here is a review that’s been doing the email rounds. The real author is kindly invited to step forward & take credit … The latest Sally Potter film, called “Yes,” Describes a love affair. I must confess Her other work—“Orlando,” starring Tilda…

  • Why I want to be Heath Ledger

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    Allens Fantales: Australian chewy choc-caramel lollies with biographies of celebrities on the wrappers. They work like this: Person 1, chewing, & speaking awkwardly with a mouth full of chewy choc-caramel, reading their lolly wrapper: “So. I got Madonna. That whore. Did you know her second name was Louise? So who’d you get?” Person 2, sucking…