It’s Oscars Day and I’m excited. I love the Oscars, I love the good and the bad outfits. I love the gushing speeches and the losers proving why they lost by not being able to act happy for the winners. On the other hand I can’t stand the moaning minnies who complain that it’s all back-slapping and aren’t there more important things in the world to be concerned about…
Baftas (almost) live blog
10 February 2013 by Leave a Comment
Last year I had a lot of fun live-blogging the Oscar’s ceremony so I’m going to do the same again this year and thought I’d also blog the British Academy Awards. It’s only an almost live blog as it’s live blogging the television broadcast..
The Hunger Games
10 September 2012 by 2 Comments
A few weeks ago I read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The dystopian saga of a teenage girl who becomes the face of resistance against a dictatorial government caught my attention more than any books I’ve picked up in quite a while. They were literally unputdownable…
X-Men: First Class
6 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
I have a bit of a strange relationship with the X-Men films. I loved the first one, thought the second was good enough and the third was a big steaming pile of…