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phoning it in… again

Val Kilmer, why do you even bother making movies anymore? Your heart hasn’t been in it since that dreadful Mars flicks some years back — and the rest of your body has been following suit ever since. You were a stunning looking man back in the day. These days you just look kinda lost, wandering from scene to scene like a guy at a conference who’s forgotten which floor the party suite’s on.Double Identity was a piece of shit, with a pointless storyline half arsedly ripped from North by Northwest. I slid into a coma at the three quarter mark. Even then, the end credits didn’t get rolling fast enough.

Les Aventures Extraordinaires D’Adèle Blanc-Sec

I’ve been ridiculously busy of late but I just had to pause for breath and post a mention of the latest Luc Besson cinematic offering. I am so busting my pants to see this film. Rob did a detailed blog post about it a while back on Undead Backbrain but here’s the gist:Luc Besson of The Fifth Element, The Professional and La Femme Nikita fame is currently in post-production of the first film in a planned trilogy, based on the adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, a female journalist in the 1920s (and beyond). The lovely and vivacious Adèle is the creation of comic artist Jacques Tardi and in the course of her extraordinary adventures she isn’t averse to dealing with reanimated mummies, rampant dinosaurs, demons from hell and other super-normal conspiracies.I can’t wait. I really can’t.

space movies

Coughing our guts up with lurgi last night, we piked on our Sydney dinner engagement and stayed on the couch to watch Moon.I really enjoyed it so tonight, in the mood for more space action, we rewatched Alien 4. Now, I always liked that flick but recall critics and friends alike giving it a solid bucketing at the time it was released. I had completely forgotten it was written by Joss Whedon — or perhaps at the time that name meant nothing to me. No matter. What became quickly evident tonight was the underpinnings of Firefly within the script.Smershy is doing well — his swollen face has almost returned to normal. I have a sore butt and knees from an hour and a half spent bike riding this morning, and a smug sense of satisfaction from all the synopsis plotting I’ve done over the past three days. But best of…

seven hundred and forty dollars later!

Poor old Smershy spent the night at the vet’s. Half his face was swollen up with an abscess caused by an infected tooth. He only had five teeth left to speak of. Now he has only three. Not that the loss seems to have cramped his style any. As soon as he got home he gummed up a big fat bowl of mince then went for a nap in a sunny spot on the porch. The vet says he’s heading for renal failure. Our aim is to make his year a happy one.Tonight we’ll be watching Outlander. For those not in the know, it’s aliens versus Vikings. And not before bloody time. Honestly, there are some ideas out there just screaming to be fulfilled and this is one of them.Oh, and the real big news for me this week was that I whupped my boss’s arse at ping pong. I…

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