Rowling currently lives in Edinburgh, but she’s originally from Gloucestershire. She went to college in Exeter. She lived various other places including London. She lived in Porto, Portugal for a while where she met her first husband. She moved to Edinburgh and has lived there since then.
Ah I never knew that, I always thought she was born in bred, but I aware of the Edinburgh connection when her novels became popular, and the claims she’d wrote it when she lived there.
So we signed up for Disney and over the weekend watched Turning Red, the latest Pixar Movie with our youngest.
It was fine, had some feels , not a classic .
Then watched Hidden Figures again, good movie, I am sure they played fast and lose with a lot of details, but well worth the time spent.
Found it and watched it - in the UK it’s on Sky Arts / NOW TV for the next week or so.
I’ve had the pleasure of performing for Maestro Alsop on a couple of occasions, and chatting to her once - she was extremely nice to my (then) six-year-old daughter. An absolute joy to work with, IME.
Bazinga.
My wife and one of my sons watched it recently and were underwhelmed. I saw just enough of it to know it wasn’t for me.
Now watch Cool Runnings, which is also on Disney Plus. Let me tell you, it holds up big time.
In one evening in college I watched “The Wizard of Oz” and “Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers Through the Eighth Dimension.” It was a weird night.
Is this the same Buckaroo Banzai movie that is famous?
Yes - I got the title somewhat wrong. It’s really “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” (I just like to keep the Cavaliers in the mix)
Wherever you go, there you are. Such as to this thread, which may be of interest: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League
Antlers, a horror film with a good cast, but otherwise kinda lame. Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons as brother and sister (although it takes awhile to make that clear), Amy Madigan (who’s looking rather rough these days), and Graham Greene as the Wise Indian character. Tip of the hat to child actor Jeremy T. Thomas, though, who did a solid job being a creepy kid.
Saw Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile last night. Nice boat. The rest is pretty forgettable.
Boring! I did not like this movie at all.
Yeah, I thought it was poorly done, but I was bored enough to finish it.
I saw it too. “Boring Creepy Dark Horror” from A24 and other similar companies is becoming its own genre. For every good slow horror movies that comes out like Hereditary, Censor, etc. we end up with a couple clunkers.
The Night House was terrible.
Nacho Libre
Never seen it. Not one laugh in the movie. I just occasionally heard it was funny, but I found myself staring at the screen laughless.
Ebert got it right.
Death on the Nile. Just OK. Looked good, but I guessed who-done-it as soon as the murder occurred.
The OG or the new one?
I just watched a movie called The Vampire Effect. Starring a Cantopop duo called Twins as the sister and partner to a vampire hunter. The sister falls in love with a local “good” vamp who is being hunted by a “bad” vamp. It features such things as vampires buying a church as a home (why it doesn’t hurt them, I’m not sure), a coffin with a flatscreen on the inside lid, surround sound, lights, and that can be opened with the Clapper and a scene where the vampires attack an ambulance carrying the sister and the good vamp. The ambulance is driven by Jackie Chan, so it doesn’t go well for the vamps. Lots of tooth-acting. Check it out if you like cute girls fighting cheesy vampires.
sorry, should have specified. The new one.
The Adam Project
It was OK, nothing too amazing. Very budget-wise movie. We have Jennifer Garner for 20 minutes or so, Mark Ruffalo for 40 minutes or so, and Zoe Saldana for 20 minutes or so. Ryan Reynolds is in the whole thing, but they manage to make it look like a bigger budget movie by featuring bigger names who give shorter appearances.
I liked it, but nothing too new or interesting here.