Movies Mediocrity
I watch a lot of films, though these days mostly on rental. There isn’t an exact number of course, but I’ll put it roughly to a ballpark of between 150 to 200 new movies / TV shows hours a year.
Category: At Home
Killshot
Killshot (2008) – on rental. This was another film that I think had a short theatrical run in Singapore. It was released, then disappeared off theatrical screening lists before much people noticed it. The film centers on a device plot
Drakensang – Notes
As a follow-up to my post on Virtual Worlds the other day, here’s a post on Drakensang – after spending about six evenings in it, several of which with Hannah cradled in my arms. Visually, the game’s amazing, the more
The International
The International (2009) – on rental. Clive Owen is starting to present an almost unchanging look in all his most recent films: outside his role of the dandy in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, he looks unwashed, unshaven, unsmiling and like
Of Virtual Worlds
Ling was asking the other night whether the RPG I was playing on the computer was a single or multiplayer game. Here’s the deal: ironically, while my major and life ‘defining’ work has been in multiplayer virtual worlds, since marriage
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). While I own and have finished several reads of each of the seven Harry Potter books, I’ve never really got ‘into’ the series. There’s a lot of story in each, but also some
Disaster – Tornadoes and Volcanoes!
The last couple of Disaster films are on specific weather events that really do happen in the real world, but for cinematic story-telling gets slightly exaggerated. Unlike the other films though, these aren’t major disasters of the Humanity Wipe type.
Fanboys
Fanboys (2009) – on rental. I’m not sure if I’m more a Star Wars or a Star Trek fan. I like both franchises for what they are and that they’re centered on very different themes, even if the most recent
The Otaktu Encylopedia
I was checking out the Kinokuniya web site and saw that they had an interesting book on sale: “The Otaku Encylopedia”. I think Matt would love this sort of thing. Me, I just may pick it up for laughs.:) Book
Baby's Sign Language
An ex-colleague visited us lately and shared with me that Hannah could be taught sign language before she could articulate her needs. Sounds like fun and interesting to me. Here’s a video to show just that :) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSZfW4gVhI
Disaster – Bad Weather, Bad Earth!
Funnily, there aren’t as many rules governing Weather and Climate Change films. But they do tend to be more factually sound than say Alien Invasion or Monster films: there has to be some scientific basis for a weather or climate
iPhone Suicide
Here’s a sad bit of Tech. news that’s now rapidly being broadcast around: China iPhone man commits suicide By Chris Hogg BBC News, Beijing A young Chinese worker suspected of stealing a prototype for the fourth generation iPhone has committed
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