A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: I bought this book probably when it had been out for a year, or two, and started it at the time, but then put it away, and forgot about it. I recently restarted the book, and read it relatively quickly (for me, at least) – in about two […]
Movie: His Girl Friday (1940)
His Girl Friday: A comedy about newspaper men (and women). The film starts with a scene where the ex-wife of an editor at a newspaper (at least, I think he’s the editor) tells him she’s going to get married to an insurance salesman, and live happily ever after. I can’t remember now why she even […]
Movie: Roman Holiday (1953)
Roman Holiday: Audrey Hepburn’s first real film, apparently. And, she seemed a natural in it. The film is about a princess who decides to take a break from a hectic schedule while in Rome, and escapes for a day, and experiences life as a ‘normal’ person. It’s a very sweet film, Gregory Peck is fantastic […]
Movie: Dial M for Murder (1954)
Dial M for Murder: Another Hitchcock thriller. The film starts with a scene in a home, husband and wife, seemingly happy. We learn not long after that the wife has a lover. Initially we don’t realise that the husband knows, but, he does! He ends up planning a murder of his wife, but, things don’t […]
Movie: The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection: A film I had vaguely heard of, but, didn’t really know what it was about. Well, it’s about a big drug dealer from France making shipments to New York, and some detectives seem to stumble upon it by chance. Though, I don’t think they really know what was really going on themselves, […]
Movie: The African Queen (1951)
The African Queen: I watched this on Wednesday night, so I’ve already forgotten some parts of this movie! The beginning almost put me off this film completely – it starts off with African natives ‘singing’ in a church, and it just sounds like a droning. Luckily, it was only at the beginning of the film! […]
Movie: August Rush (2007)
August Rush: I expected this film to be a little soppy, due to the synopsis, it did not disappoint. It was indeed rather soppy in parts! Another of my favourite actors is in this – Robin Williams, and IÂ was waiting to see what kind of character he would play – the image in my head […]
Movie: Taken (2008)
Taken: A pure action flick, with a kind of favourite actor. Liam Neeson was excellent in this. Initially as a kind of sad/lonely kind of guy, and, then, as a man on a mission, and boy, is he relentless. 🙂 This is a very violent film, and some of the other main actresses (the daughter, […]
Movie: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
In the Heat of the Night: This film conflicts with me a bit. It’s basically about an out of town black cop, versus a white town’s police, at least in the first instance. After initially being taken in for questioning about a murder (purely for being black). The police chief in the town that Sidney […]
Movie: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Philadelphia Story: A romantic comedy about people living the high life. It has one of my favourite actors in – James Stewart, and he’s great, as always. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn were also very good in this film. The film starts with a scene in which Cary Grant’s character is leaving Katharine Hepburn, […]