Love Lane, Peel

Some random stuff, mostly movies related.

Dan In Real Life

I hate long posts on blogs, I seldom read them, they put me off. But I know that I too often write them myself. There is a lot to say, but I will keep it as short as possible. I promise. There is some bad news and there is some, erhm, news.

Remember the post I just wrote with the pathetic:
“I will soon make and publish my plan on how I will try to survive the rest of December being a person who hates Xmas.”
Forget it. That problem has solved itself already.
Remember what I wrote about Richard Curtis?

He’s back

I attended a Bafta screen writing session yesterday, so this post is about all the above, a lot about screen writing and film making too, and about the homecoming of Davy. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Some words from the guru

Good words from screen writing Guru Richard Curtis.
I thought 6 days and nights on a train, think about the huge amount of time I will have to write. Well I did write a bit here and there, but not the stuff I was supposed to. How could I, I was sharing [...]

New York Love

(Written: New York, 33rd St - Picture: New York, 5th Ave)
While I drink my Milky Way tea in the Starbucks right beside the Empire State Building (and let’s be honest there are worse places to drink your tea - behind your computer screen at work just to name one) I read (or rather [...]

The Girl In The Cafe
2 more reviews:
Dan liked her
Bjorn did not
The Americans just gave her 3 Emmy’s (Best film, Best script, Best actress (Kelly MacDonald) - I know Bill is missing here, he wasn’t even nominated, but we all know that he made the film - Best film).
If you like to find out what you [...]

The Girl In The Cafe is part og the Makepovertyhistory.org project.
And you can’t get away from it, this film has a political message too. Quite an important one.
If you don’t like that in a film, don’t worry, focus on the fantastic acting performance of Bill Nighy. In Love Actually I found him slightly odd, but [...]