Archive for the ‘My thoughts’ Category
Best movies of the 2000s
Best of the best 50 First Dates About a Boy About Schmidt Adaptation. Amelie American Splendor Atonement The Aviator Babel Batman Begins A Beautiful Mind Big Fish The Bourne Identity The Bourne Supremacy The Bourne Ultimatum Bridget Jones’s Diary Broken Flowers Catch Me If You Can Changeling Chicken Run Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Dark […]
Best movies of the 1990s
Best of the best American Beauty The American President Apollo 13 As Good as It Gets Awakenings Babe Backdraft Being John Malkovich The Big Lebowski Bowfinger Bulworth Chaplin The City of Lost Children Clerks Con Air Dances with Wolves Dark City Dave Dead Again Delicatessen Fargo The Fisher King Forrest Gump The Fugitive The Full […]
Best movies of the 1980s
Best of the best Amadeus Possibly not historically accurate, but lots of fun. Mozart is a genius composer but he’s not very good at holding onto his money — jealous rival Salieri takes advantage of both. Blade Runner Redefined the look of a SF movie, and full of big ideas. In 2019 Rick Deckard hunts […]
Best movies of the 1970s
Best of the best Fiddler on the Roof Happy and sad, the music is top notch. A musical about Tevye and his family in Russia in 1905, when his daughters start thinking about getting married. Stars Topol. Grease The music will keep your toes tapping. A musical about two summer lovers who are surprised to […]
Best movies of the 1960s
Best of the best 2001: A Space Odyssey Full of stunning visuals and ideas. A monolith is discovered on the Moon that sends a signal towards Jupiter — so a ship is sent to investigate. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Dr. Strangelove One of the funniest movies ever made. An insane general orders planes with nuclear […]
SF & fantasy TV shows
Here’s an updated version of my list of science fiction and fantasy TV shows I’ve watched. 5/5 Angel 5 5 5 5 5 5 Babylon 5 4.5 5 5 5 4.5 4.8 Battlestar Galactica 5 5 5 5 5 […]
Highest-grossing non-series films
Many of the films on the list of highest-grossing movies are part of a series, and therefore in this list I made yesterday. Here are my comments on the ones that are left. 1. Avatar The best ever use of 3D, it was amazing to see once on the big screen. On second viewing, the […]
Highest-grossing film series
Here’s what I think of the highest-grossing film series. The list comes from here on Wikipedia, on September 8, 2015. Marvel Cinematic Universe I’ve seen all of them except for Ant-Man, and they are all worth seeing. Unlike DC’s mostly serious movies, most of these ones have a great sense of humour. If forced to […]
Spencer Gorge / Webster’s Falls
Last weekend I visited Spencer Gorge / Webster’s Falls Conservation Area near Hamilton, with my friends Kev and Patrick. There are actually 2 waterfalls within the park — Webster’s Falls and Tew’s Falls. It’s a lovely spot. Here are some photos from that excursion.
Authors you can’t go wrong with, part 6
This list continues from part 5. It contains 60 authors, and I’m going to call it done for now. Ray Bradbury Bradbury’s masterpiece is a linked sequence of stories set on Mars, where humans are colonizing despite the Martian inhabitants. Masterpiece The Martian Chronicles Great book Fahrenheit 451 Good book Dandelion Wine David Brin Both […]