Golden Globes: Steven Spielberg says ‘Tintin’ is an animated ‘buddy movie’

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Its no surprise to me, no surprise at all. Sir Peter Jackson’s The Adventures of Tintin has won the best animated film award at the Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles. Directed by Spielberg and produced by Sir Peter and his digital effects company Weta Digital  in New Zealand.  The movie the first of a [...]

The Adventures of Tin Tin

Shipwrecked

Some kid was giggling. From my seat I could see him I wanted to tell him to “Shut up don’t you know this is serious” but then – it erupted all around me, Captain Haddock from the safety of the doorway issued instructions to the hapless Tin Tin as he balanced of a sharks tail [...]

Tin Tin Museum – Musee Hergé

Herge Museum

It was a wet Sunday, I turned south and drove towards Louvain-la-Neuve and the museum, Musee Hergé designed as a focal point for one of the best loved creators of the twentieth century. It’s a long way. I can’t imagine why the museum is located way out here. What were they thinking I keep thinking, [...]

Judex Jones Horror Film Sampler

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There’s something about being horrified that’s deeply addictive. Extreme sports, extreme relationships, betting on horses, playing the stock market or watching horror movies we do like to be scared. We are happy to be terrifyingly unhappy we like to get the adrenalin pumping. We were hard wired for it, I think, when we were wild, [...]

Well, well!

Somebody’s been a slack blogging wombat then;D

Lifes little Inevitabilities

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WTF happens in the bathroom, Nigel?

And tonight I had to ask, WTF  happens in the bathroom, Nigel? Everything in there is drenched. All the toilet paper is wet, if I leave clothes, towels hairdriers there when I come back to get them they are wet. Not damp Nigel  WET.  Sit on the dunny and you get rained on. I cleaned [...]

So can I borrow 20 bucks?

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Diamonds in the Dark

Diamonds in the Dark

FOX (Written 2006)

Tracy and Kitsu were sitting at a window table in the Green Iguana café on King just near the lights. The cars were angry, the red lights were really pissing them off. Tracy was sipping one of those weak-soy-milk-caps with a dash of cold, the kind where coffee wasn’t a requirement to earn the name [...]