Charles Dance in Shadowlands

Rating:
I have 7 plays lined up the coming months, but I doubt any of them will come even close to Shadowlands, which I saw yesterday.
Shadowlands tells the story of C.S. Lewis (writer of Narnia), a confirmed bachelor into his fifties, until he meets Joy, a witty, intelligent American woman who has […]

Unrequited Love

We have received 10 responses from 50+ aged actors with gray hair who can raise and eyebrow “Roger Moore” style, and who want to be in our short film. Don’t you just love a job description like that.
We will see some of them to check that we can work with them and will then […]

Love+Rock: If I could change the world

[ Send her here ]
(Her legs seem to be growing, she is unconsciously turning into a lanky girl. Nothing wrong with lanky people though, on the contrary)
Blame Bill for reading Eric. And Eric for singing this song.
I saw And when did you last see your father with Colin […]

Once

If you think that music is not that powerful a medium think again. I saw Once tonight, at last.
Of course I am a tragic romantic to begin with, I had no real idea what the story was about, but I already cried during the second song. There is so much beautiful beautiful music in this […]

The Police, Twickenham - London

If you find your binoculars you can spot them somewhere on stage.
WOW!! That was an awesome trip on memory lane.

Jamie Cullum, Forum - Kentish Town - London

(Here is a larger picture of Jamie Cullum)
I was going to do a small post about the Jamie Cullum concert yesterday. But I guess you know me by now.

20 percent off your Bill

Believe it or not, this is a post about Life, the Universe and Everything. Silliness guaranteed though.

The Face on the Wall

Shoreditch, London
It was a good day. I think.

“So …” Davy begins.
“So” I say, knowing that something is coming.
“How many pages have you written of your 90 page feature film script?”
“Ehrm, well ….”
“Ahrr, I thought so.”
“Yeah, but you know, Dan and June … They hold my head hostage at the moment.”
“You will be in trouble if you don’t start soon. November remember.”
“I … […]

Lady Chatterley

I don’t know if I love this version of Lady Chatterley this much because it is about true love but it might have something to do with it. The music alone made me cry several times, and the nature shots were very nicely integrated into the story. Yep there are several scenes of a […]

Mother and daughter

No I didn’t immediately role into an after-birthday-depression. I spend my birthday and weekend away from my computer and with Billy (Elliot and Mack), apes and my mother.
And this must be my new favourite picture.

What is going on? Why do both the Times and the Guardian rate this (hopefully) last film in the trilogy that well? I was utterly bored! I gave it a fair chance, but I admit, having read nearly all Ludlum books, that these three were not among my favourite ones. Neither is the film.
What’s […]

Premiere weekend for the new Sparkle movie, written and directed by Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger who made The Lawless Heart.
Sparkle is an absolute delight to watch, and it has a fantastic cast.

John Simm shines as Elling

Here are a 100 reasons why you have to go and see Elling:
John Simm
That’s it, that’s a 100 reasons.
Here is the story:
Mummy’s boy Elling (Simm) and his roommate, the uncouth reluctant virgin Kjell Bjarne (Bower) are the Odd Couple of Oslo: a pair of confused souls taking their first steps in […]

Eagle vs. Shark - on a bag

I was there 1 hour in advance, it was empty near the box office in the Trocadero cinema, I ordered a ticket for Eagle vs. Shark preview screening and they told me - it was sold out. What?! To cheer me up, when I walked out it started raining. […]

Films I have seen recently:
Evan Almighty
Rating:
Yes it is as bad as you think it is. Morgan Freeman deserves so much better than this. And another example of the fact that stupid scripts do in fact get made into block busters. It’s a ripoff from Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey which I thought was quite […]

Bill Nighy and Edgar Allan Poe

Remember this?
The suggested book titles for Bill to read have been collected and the result list is made. Now it is time to cast your vote on the book you want Bill Nighy to read next for Silksoundbooks!
I need as many votes as possible in order for the silksounding people […]

Hairspray

Christopher Walken is a great actor, and he’s is the American answer to Bill Nighy. Quirky, lanky, he wears a suit with grace and oh my does he know how to shake a leg.

Pirates invading London

They are coming to get me.
What’s in here: books, Oxfam, writing, reading, and being late for dinner.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Today at the box office:
“Hello”
“Hello, what can I help you with?”
“A ticket for Pirates please.”
“Pirates no longer runs in our cinema.”
“What? You got to be joking.”
“I am not.”
“You can’t just take Pirates off the program, I wasn’t finished with it.”
“Aha, well […]