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| Sunday morning at the movies: I didn’t look at my watch | October 4, 2009 | Been to the movies because for the first time in quite some time because there’s been a movie on that doesn’t look like complete and utter garbage. Too harsh on the film industry? Whatever…. Let’s just say that Mao’s Last Dancer is one of my favourite books. A favourite book is one that I have […] |
| What Wendy Watched: I sing the body electric | September 27, 2009 | Well, here The Spiralling Shape continues its occasional series in which Wendy catches up with seminal dancing, singing, music movies from the 1980s that she has never managed to watch before. Today’s topic is Fame (1980). What’s weird about this is that as a young person we watched the TV series Fame well before I […] |
| What Wendy Watched: I sing the body electric | Well, here The Spiralling Shape continues its occasional series in which Wendy catches up with seminal dancing, singing, music movies from the 1980s that she has never managed to watch before. Today’s topic is Fame (1980). What’s weird about this is that as a young person we watched the TV series Fame well before I […] |
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| What Wendy Watched: Jack get back and pass me my leg warmers if you please | September 5, 2009 | I spent the afternoon watching my 6.99 bargain copy of Footloose. As I started I realised that I hadn’t actually seen it before even though if you had asked me I would have said I had (if that makes sense). That song sure is catchy though. And what a fabulously stupid and ridiculous movie it […] |
| What Wendy Watched: Jack get back and pass me my leg warmers if you please | I spent the afternoon watching my 6.99 bargain copy of Footloose. As I started I realised that I hadn’t actually seen it before even though if you had asked me I would have said I had (if that makes sense). That song sure is catchy though. And what a fabulously stupid and ridiculous movie it […] |
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| Bookclub report: Rapper, flapper…whatever | August 30, 2009 | We just never know where our bookclub choice is going to take us. Yesterday we had all watched Quiz Show. Some of us had seen it a few times, others never before. (We alternate between books and films). Reasons for never watching it before seemed to range from an ambivalence to an outright dislike of […] |
| Bookclub report: Rapper, flapper…whatever | We just never know where our bookclub choice is going to take us. Yesterday we had all watched Quiz Show. Some of us had seen it a few times, others never before. (We alternate between books and films). Reasons for never watching it before seemed to range from an ambivalence to an outright dislike of […] |
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| Watch, Listen and Singalong: Part 10: skating past Rod Stewart | March 18, 2009 | This is what happens when you see an ad for House starring Hugh Laurie, a program I tried for a while, but found less than compelling. However, I started thinking about Laurie’s career pre Emmy award winning, cranky-genius doctor. He was in a movie called Peter’s Friends. I can’t remember anything about it except that […] |
| Watch, Listen and Singalong: Part 10: skating past Rod Stewart | This is what happens when you see an ad for House starring Hugh Laurie, a program I tried for a while, but found less than compelling. However, I started thinking about Laurie’s career pre Emmy award winning, cranky-genius doctor. He was in a movie called Peter’s Friends. I can’t remember anything about it except that […] |
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| you know those comedies that aren’t actually funny…this isn’t one of them | February 22, 2009 | I haven’t been to the actual movies, as in buy and ticket and go to the theatre for a long time. Months….since sometime in 2008 I would be guessing. And I can’t remember the last movie I saw at the theatre so clearly it wasn’t really that memorable. Actually now I come to think about […] |