Extemporanea

I think the age of the franchise shows with this one - it's high-spirited enough, but really only sorta fun and not particularly excitin...

Though he's not particularly flashy, I think that Christopher Nolan may be one of the best writer/directors going around. The comment ab...

Kim's masters recital, at St John's church in Southgate tonight: Sonatine - D. Milhaud Le Merle Noir - O. Messiaen Toward the Sea II...

Every bit the gem that the cd single suggested a full length would be, The Beautiful Light starts at a furious pace, its first three numbe...

Maybe it's just a reflection of my listening habits and preferences, but I find the music on this album difficult to categorise; it soun...

Admittedly, it's the time of year when I fall for this kind of music, but Jolie Holland is seriously really good, and The Living and the...

These're pretty nice; I like Transatlanticism more, but both are very listenable, and I don't mind the airy kinda mellow-pop sorta ...

Maybe it's a chicken and egg thing, or maybe not, but Pratchett seems to loom large in the reading history (and, in many cases, present ...

In Tamara's words - this was a gift from her of a while back - a slight portion of Woolf, but a pleasing selection nonetheless. Part of ...

Steph got it right when she said afterwards that this, running as part of the Johnnie To retrospective at acmi, was a cheeky film - it has a...

I haven't listened to much of Torrini's stuff - really only Fisherman's Woman , though I noticed the other night that I also hav...

A western, I guess, but as much an exploration of alternative consciousness (primarily via psychotropic substances) as a genre piece, leadin...

Stylish and fairly effective, but I was left feeling that this could have been so much better - I found it unsatisfying, in the end, mainly ...

[19/11, 4pm] It's funny how films (and other such things) can come to inhabit us. Yesterday, Penny happened to mention in an email that ...

Still on track with nanowrimo, by the way: 23,421 words and with a whole weekend ahead of me - listening to the New Pornographers and enjoyi...

This movie is neat, and much more low-key than I'd expected, given the premise (Will Ferrell discovers that he's actually a characte...

Yep, I got it right the first time . This movie is great. Also, struck by the way that all of the still shots - I'm thinking particularl...

Sunny presented this handsome book to me a while back; I've worked through it (or bits of it) in two ways, namely reading the entries fo...

And still more; still magnificent. Interesting to hear some bits of the symphonies, too - quite a different kettle of fish from the rest of ...

Hella fun, this one - one of the best I've received yet through IMP - and proof that good things come to those who wait on more than one...