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A whole week without updates! Where shall I start?
Shell and I have been watching the Olympics at home, almost continually (apart from being at work). It's the first time I think I have ever watched so much athletics/swimming/sport, etc and quite frankly I'm surprised I enjoyed it so much. Shell is a big athletics fan and we watched some of the meets prior to the Olympics.
Great Britain did pretty well over all - especially the sailing and the sprinting. Considering the size of our nation (compared to the US or China), we did incredibly well.
I got home on Thursday evening to find a copy of the CAFCASS report regarding contact with my children. Favourable to say the least :) I'm back in court this Thursday for the Pre-Trial, so hopefully something good should come of that.
Friday lunchtime, I drove up to London to my friend Eddies house and prepared for Frightfest 2004 - and what a cracker it was. The freebie bag on the opening day (for pass holders) netted me 3 T-shirts, a DVD boxset and more. Another T-shirt a couple of days later too. One of them (Alien vs. Predator) is a Medium though...
Films of the festival (in my view):
- Switchblade Romance - 8/10
- Deep Red - (unrated as not new)
- The I Inside - 8/10
- Hellboy - 8/10
- Monster Man - 9/10
- Code 46 - 7/10
- The Eye 2 - 9/10
- One Point O - 7/10
- Casshern - 10/10
- The Machinist - 8/10
The director and cast (Guillermo Del Torro, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Rupert Evans) of Hellboy were there to introduce the film, do a Q&A and also a signing session (signed goodies could well be going on eBay). That was pretty sweet. Also, mention to the showing of Profondo Rosso (Deep Red), a classic Dario Argento film - truly outstanding. My film of the festival was definately Casshern - although at 2hrs 21mins it was long, but it flew by (and was only marred by my left knee locking up after 1.5hrs and leaving me almost in tears). Reviews of them will be going up soon.
It was a hard weekend, arriving back at Eddies place at 00.30, 03.30, 02.30 and finally home at 02.15 respectively and starting each day by getting up at 08.00 to travel back to Leicester Square! Worth it though. We met up with some friends (Chris, Liz and Kev) who came to a few screenings, Jason (who was there all weekend) and also some that we met at last years festival.
This year was definately better than last year and I'm looking forward to the next one. Roll on Frightfest 2005!
Having to write reviews has prompted me to put my reviews page up, so I will work on that over the next couple of weeks and when I am happy with it, I'll add a link to them. Should be commentable too (with luck).
I missed Shell terribly while I was away (and I'm pretty sure she did too). Not going to disappear for that length of time until next year I think :)
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