Babel and I had a nice time at the weekend when, it being rather wintry outside, we decided to go to the cinema. I don’t think I’d been to the cinema since I saw Cloverfield earlier in the year - that film being so bad that I was rather wary of suggesting we see anything else. But Tim had the idea that we could see the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, and I thought that sounded like a plan, because there’s a limit to how bad a James Bond film can be (more…)

I’ve just been watching ‘The Painted Veil’, a 2006 film adaptation of the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. I confess to never having read the book, or indeed anything at all by W. Somerset Maugham, but it was one of my father’s birthday presents and we were humouring him by sitting and watching it with him It was actually very good, although not, I think, a film to go to bed on, because it was rather depressing and disturbing. (more…)

Neither my boyfriend nor I have a car, and so we are condemned to spending vast quantities of our private lives marooned in the centre of Birmingham with nothing to do. In an attempt to stop us eating each other through boredom, I suggested that this week we go to the cinema. It seemed like a good idea; I like watching films, but I don’t get chance to very often. (more…)