I had a brain blast so clear about fancasting for Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear books, that I thought maybe I’d read a post about it somewhere here? elsewhere on the internet? (I haven’t found it, but the internet is a big place).
Anyways, it is this: Bill Nighy would make an excellent Sir Godfrey Kingsman.
Video games have generally had a fairly bad run when it comes to movie adaptations. Either they veer too far away from their source material and lose their gamer fans, or they lean too far into it and go over the heads of mainstream audiences. So when it was announced that they were making a live action adaptation of Nintendo’s video game Detective Pikachu, there was definitely an air of…
Quand j'ai vu ce film pour la première fois, j'ai trouvé amusant. La seconde fois, j'ai trouvé énervant. Il sert à quoi, finalement, ce pouvoir de retourner dans le passé et de le modifier, si ce n'est que pour rendre une existence médiocre plus médiocre encore?
It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families.
Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.
“And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”
