It’s that time of year again… where I run down the good, the bad and the very bad of the movies I watched over Christmas. This is something of an RvR tradition – you can see my Christmas 2009 list HERE and my Christmas 2010 list HERE. If you want to run through some really odd choices you can go for Ross McD’s 2009 list HERE. Somehow we both missed 2011’s movies. Must have eaten too much turkey. Anyway, here are the films I caught over the festive period in the last week or two. As always, some I watched in their entirety, some I watched large chunks of and some I caught just a tiny snippet. Come on, I had things to do. Like walk from the sofa to the kitchen and back to grab more chocolates. These movies are in the order I watched them, not rearranged by quality. Let us know what movies you watched over Christmas in the comments section and tell us what you think of my choices. Although in the case of Happy Feet, I didn’t have a choice… Continue reading
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What were your movie great expectations?
Posted in COMMENT with tags Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Helena Bonham Carter, Mike Newell, Movies, Ralph Fiennes on November 26, 2012 by Ross McGGreat Expectations is out this week. There have been precisely 736 film adaptations of Great Expectations, so that Dickens guy must be raking it in on the royalties front. I don’t mind the prospect of this latest version, and not because it has Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, who seem to be in bloody everything these days.
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