First Post

...so, having made my introduction this second post should be my first real one.
John W. at work said he'd like to watch Ben-Hur the 1925 so I got it for him this one  and now I started to watch it too. I was surprised by its quality. The first thing that struck me was how easy it is to follow the story. The setting is so authentic looking too. I am up to the battle scene and that is breathtaking, no expense was spared by the looks. I will read about it's making after I finish watching/

At Toongabbie they (mostly my brother but Melissa too) talked about "The Centepede" One and Two at length and said how grotesque and yak it is and not to watch them,,,well I got curious allright so they're queued up...don;t know when I ll see them...
We also mentioned "The Artist", Sue said she really liked it. I said it looked great of course in b/w (as usual) and that the dog was great in it (who didn't?)
Alex sent me Hugo (thanks) which I put on right away when I got home. Watched half hour, the photography is very clever almost sepia and achieves that Parisienne look of the early 1900s. It looks good. But the story yet needs to prove itself...

I saw My week with Marilyn one night at the Quay, It was beautiful warm evening, millions of tourists about, took some great shots with my mobile that turned out duds, but more on that later. I got a bag of pistachios and went sat front row and prepared to ogle on Marilyn. OK. I thought the actress (Michelle Williams)  did ok but I could have done without her double chin. Not an award winning performance. That honour goes without a doubt to Meryl Streep for her Maggie role. She hooked me from the first scene where she is buying milk at her local, as she is bustled out of the way by some mod yuppie (do they still exist?) on a mobile who does not stop to see who this frail old lady is...and there is the irony for me. Once a powerful lady not to be pittied, now housing a muddled mind oscillating between the past and the mundane present. What do they say? a 'Rewarding experience' worthy of a revisit.