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And of course the Spainish have no vested interest in discouraging wayward states from trying for indepenence...

[JACK THE GIANT SLAYER]

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER

I think I mentioned previously that I quite liked this and still did. Looked good in 3D at home. Could do with one or two more laughs but other than that, solid enjoyable stuff with very likeable lead performances (including the bad guys).. The giants look great and Singer know how to build up tension (and not drag it out too long) as show in the first appearance of a giant.

Apparently it didn't do too well at the box office though.

I really liked the final scene in that.

A really intimate event.

The only uncomfortable moment was meeting Adi Granov and discovering that he does not talk to layman fans himself but through an interpreter while he sits painting commissions looking up now and again to bless us with his signature.

Really? I have met Adi and he's a lovely, if quiet, guy. I assume you're talking about is wife when you say 'interpreter'.

I guess so, I didn't ask.

Maybe he was just not feeling the con, or jetlagged.

Aye, if you follow him on FB, he's always jetting around the world - jetlag could be the answer!

A really intimate event.

The only uncomfortable moment was meeting Adi Granov and discovering that he does not talk to layman fans himself but through an interpreter while he sits painting commissions looking up now and again to bless us with his signature.

Really? I have met Adi and he's a lovely, if quiet, guy. I assume you're talking about is wife when you say 'interpreter'.

  After credits scene - ?

Luna-1 on a stick?

LIKE

Big Ian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29177705

Sorry but is it true that no-one like him?

TB speaks the truth. I have personal knowledge of this fact. I despised the man's politics, but as a constituency MP, he was, I have no fear of saying, the very best there was. 
I have also heard first hand from others, people Paisley would have gleefully condemned to hell, who had nothing by praise for his work as a local MP.
A man of contradictions, indeed.

He was a hate-filled bully, bottomless source of dishonest manipulative bigotry (just read his writings on Irish history) and a spittle-flecked bogeyman for many on this island for many decades, but by all accounts he was a tireless advocate for his constituents, and his latter political work was commendable.  An embodied contradiction, like all of us.

Big Ian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29177705

[The Bone Clocks]

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Very very good.

Have my eye on that one, good to hear.

Apaert from the sheer scope of his imagination, every now and then he'll use a phrase or description that makes me wonder why I bother trying to write at all!

[The Bone Clocks]

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Very very good.

Who's the artist?

It looks very similar to the Arkham Knight batmobile.
One thing that confuses me bout Batman - if he's so anti-guns why does he have them all over his motor?

Rubber bullets. Honest.

How is it fixed for parentheses?

They do become truly terrible, and apparently the very last one was knocked out in about a week just so they could keep the Hellraiser rights. Even Doug Bradley drew the line at that one, so it's probably a real treat.

Revelations in an interesting one. It is a monumentally bad movie, bit there's a good movie in there somewhere - it almost makes it in places, but really suffers from a lack of Doug Bradley.

Something about horror franchises keep you coming back for more punishment.

Mmm... there's a story in that somewhere..!

Hellraiser: Deader!

Crap title, Crap film. I really should have known better, but I was bored!

Cheers

I have recently watched all the Hellraiser movies - never has the law of diminishing returns been writ so large.

Kipping in the park this afternoon I heard two young boys playing in the park. One shouted "I'm the Doctor and this is my spoon!"

This renders all arguments invalid.

FTFY

:-)