« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on March 25, 2025, 11:26:43 PM »
Having finished a 3rd reading of the novel, I'm watching the Colombian series, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I just finished episode 2. It's hard to imagine anyone doing this book justice, but the film is ok. It's set in Colombia, like the novel and the characters/actors are Colombian, so that does kind of bring it down to earth. It's on Netflix with English subtitles.
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on March 24, 2025, 03:28:54 PM »
Visited Son in Kinloss Scotland, He picked us up after a 2 month long course and drove is approx 9hrs to his camp. 3 days of tourism around the local area (very coastal and scenic 👍). A tad too much alcohol. Dropped us off in inverness and off home he went whereas we had a afternoon/night at Inverness airport, Up at 4.30am then London till 8pm for the train. I am cream crackered, and need to stay awake for work tomorrow. Smokes does London ever slow down ? Was chaotic and so busy ! Wife cost me a fortune in the Channel show in Covent Garden and my fav Ale bar was closed in Camden :'( :'(
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on March 23, 2025, 10:34:40 PM »
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run). It's still really good, although it is not as compelling on a tv screen as it was when I first saw it in the theatre. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on March 23, 2025, 10:10:21 AM »
From the extra weird dept: Ace Attorney. Japanese. With real actors but adapted from the video game, and there's also an anime series. Worth watching if only for the hair styles. The sets are interesting, too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1891974/
It's hard for me to imagine a video game based on court trials in Japanese. Certainly it was novel and I felt like I learned something from watching it.
... especially when the main character is the heroine.
Yeah, I kinda had a row with my missus about that. She was saying: "she did that because he was rude her father", and I was like "you can't stab people for being rude or I'd be dead 40 years ago, madam"..
OK, I lied about the madam bit. But you get my point.