There have been a couple of articles in the Guardian,
The Bourne Identity at 20 and
Minority Report at 20 that have made me go, ‘huh, yeah, it IS 20 years.’
( A bit more reaction. )I have been taking the opportunity to watch films I never got around to seeing in the cinema on TV. One of them was ‘Radioactive’, a Rosamond Pike-starring biopic of Marie Curie. It was worth watching, but not great.
( Read more... )I also watched ‘What Maisie Knew’ which is based on a Henry James novella that I’d heard of, but never read, shifted forward to the early 21st century. It got to me emotionally.
( Read more... )I’ve also been reading ‘Thick as Thieves’ by Megan Whalen Turner, the fifth in the Thief of Attolia series, which is YA fantasy if you don't know it, although I suspect most people in these parts will.
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