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Whipping Ghosts

Whip It

OK, that’s a poor title but it’s the best I can do to encompass the two films I saw this evening – The Ghost and Whip It.

The Ghost

“They can’t drown two ghost writers. You’re not kittens!”

Plot-in-a-nutshell: After the initial ghost writer of a politician’s memoirs mysteriously drowns, a [...]

Dragon tattoos, Phillip Morris and bounty hunters

Jim Carry does not have a dragon tattoo

Due to a timetabling cockup I ended up going into town earlier than anticipated. And then due to a very fortunate piece of scheduling I managed to cram in three films rather than just the one I’d intended. Thus Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl [...]

Film Saturday

Just for a change, a Saturday visit to the picture house and what a change it made crowd-wise. While I much prefer an empty theater (as people are generally selfish, noisy buggers in this country) it is good to see that the cinema is still a popular place to go. The queue was pretty big [...]

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons

Another (well, the second) Dan Brown adaptation and already things are wearing thin. I will confess that Angels & Demons is a better film than The Da Vinci Code, partly because of the beautiful scenery in Rome. However, the stilted dialogue still glares and a couple of the plot points [...]