Moving to Dreamwidth

I have set up a Dreamwidth journal and I will be posting there from now on, as it allows you to automatically cross-post to LJ. I have imported my posts from LJ and it seems that I have made 1303 posts since creating my Journal in 2002 which works out at nearly 12 per month.

Please leave a comment if you have a Dreamwidth account, and I will add you. i only have two friends at the moment : (

Cinema Trips: June & July

Since my last post I have seen three comedies, a vampire road movie and a documentary at the cinema. My favourites are "Senna" and "Stake Land".

Bridesmaids
Funny, with one scene of gross-out toilet humour. If you're ever invited to be your best friend's matron of honour, don't go to a bridal shop after lunch at a dodgy restaurant, and try not to be a bridesmaidzilla as it only upsets the bride.

Horrible Bosses
Another Hollywood comedy. Jennifer Aniston is one of the horrible bosses, and she really should keep the character's dark brown hair and fringe as everybody agreed that they really suit her (everybody being two teenage girls at the same screening as me, my hairdresser and me).

Potiche
A French comedy about a 1970s housewife who takes over the running of the family's umbrella factory when her husband has a heart attack. There were quite a few laughs and I liked the fact that the denouement wasn't about whether Catherine Deneuve's character would leave her husband for Gerard Depardieu's left-wing politician.

Senna
I hadn't remembered what year Senna died, but at one point in this documentary there was a clever piece of foreshadowing that had me counting down towards the fateful year. I didn't know what Ayrton Senna was like as a person, even though I used to enjoy watching him race, and he came across as a much deeper and more complex person than I had expected. When he was asked who he had respected most in his career, he named a team-mate he had looked up to during his first year racing carts in Europe, when it was all about the racing rather than money or politics, which was very poignant. All in all this was the best documentary I've seen at the cinema this year, and surprisingly I have seen 3 already, so it seems to be a year for great documentaries.

Stake Land
Society is breaking down in the wake of a disease which turns people into creatures that act like zombies, but have a vampire's vulnerabilities. They can be killed by a stake to the heart or brain stem or by tying them up and leaving them to be burnt up when dawn comes. Canada is rumoured to be vamp-free and a man and a teenage boy head north, picking up a few other travellers and trying to keep away from land controlled by a creepy cult that has grown up since the disease took hold.