Reading time: < 1 min The Last Samurai Working with a simple story (good versus evil), the script and direction make the movie, although they are helped in no little part by Tom Cruise and Ken Watanbe in the lead roles. Cruise handles his role well, he is a man in turmoil, on a downward path who finds peace with…
Reading time: < 1 min The blue sky shines down on the sparkling earth. Patches of white scattered around. Breath pluming into the air. Meanwhile, I’m stuck inside as Louise has the ‘tidy and clean and throw out and I’ve-had-enough’ bug. Still at least it will give us plenty of stuff to sell at the first car-boot sale of the…
Reading time: < 1 min Shauny shops in M&S Food Store – the tale of an everyday woman, shopping for food. But oohhhh so much more than just that… “You could spend an hour looking at the yogurts alone. How to decide? The Greek-Style English Strawberry and Cornish Clotted Cream Yogurt made with Channel Island Milk? Or the Champagne Rhubarb…
Reading time: < 1 min 1. FilmWise: Invisible Quizzes.I received one of these by email the other day, and have since spent hours racking my brain cell. I can’t complete one, what the hell am I going to do with 162 different quizzes to get through!! (Thankfully answers ARE available…) 2. Miniclip.com – free gamesMy Dad and I frequently exchange…
Reading time: < 1 min Radio 3 to air ‘silent symphony’: “Cage’s reasoning for composing 4’33’ was to demonstrate that ‘wherever we are what we hear mostly is noise’. “ I’m sure you are all aware of this ‘seminal’ moment, however this morning’s BBC Breakfast also featured footage of the rehearsal. Which was nice. *blinks* [UPDATE: It seems I’m going…
Reading time: < 1 min R.I.P. 35mm Camera: Ultimately, even the handiness of the little plastic films tubs for storing unused foreign coins is unlikely to offer much of a salvation. Worth a read if only for the punific tributes at the end.