Last night it started snowing and by the looks of it kept going most of the night as the morning brought with it about 8 inches of snow! I got up nice an early (about 6am) to go snapping pics before everyone else woke up and started spoiling it all. For cars it was pretty chaotic - the Baily was impassable as a lorry got stuck going up the hill and I just looked out my window to see someone trying to drive down the hill, lose control and smash into a parked car, not at high speed luckily. The driver is looking fairly annoyed at the moment to put it mildly!
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Sorry about the lack of updates over the past few days but yet again their just aren’t enough hours in the day! I’ve just spent the last couple of hours coding a php install script for our SEG (Software Engineering Group) project. I’m pretty pleased with it so far although its needs a bit of tweaking.
If you like cool anime then take a look here. Looks excellent, but not as excellent as this!
More soon…
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Some people have questioned why all my film reviews are so positive. To put it bluntly I only review films that I have liked. I rarely bother about the not-so-good ones (e.g. the apathetic Elephant and the mediocre Equilibrium). Perhaps I should but to be honest I don’t really have the time!
Having just said this I saw an excellent Cantonese film yesterday called ‘The Eye‘. At the age of two, Wong Kar Mun went blind. Eighteen years later a new and risky corneal transplant operation restores her vision, but a series of inexplicable events leads her to believe there is much more than meets the eye to her newfound gift of sight. I’ll say no more but sufficed to say as psychological thrillers go its pretty scary!
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Having lived up North now for quite a while I though it was about time I had a proper explore of Newcastle which is only 10 mins by train away. Although the weather was fairly overcast and pretty cold I still managed to get some pretty good photos. One of the main things I wanted to see was the Millennium Bridge which is a very impressive structure - I never realized that the whole thing was designed to tilt on its axis to allow tall ships under - its ingenious!
Just over the bridge is the newish Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art which I took a look in but unfortunately the main exhibition was devoted to a pair of early 20th century feminists, not exactly my cup of tea! After this I wondered back into the main shopping district and took a look in some of the weird and wonderful shops in Chinatown which seems strangely out of place in Newcastle!
One thing which struck me was that there appears to be a lot of regenerative development going on in Newcastle right now so obviously its getting a lot of cash from somewhere.
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Before the Americans remade it as ‘The Ring’ last year was ‘Ringu’ (being the Japanese of the former). The premise of the story is based around an urban legend being that after you watch a certain spooky video tape one week later you’ll die. Taken at face value it sounds rather week but believe me the film keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way though and is well deserving of its global success.
The film is darkly shot and maintains a tense, eerie atmosphere throughout, its high point and infamous final scene being the crowning glory that will haunt many for a long time after its over. Little more can be said about the film without giving too much away but sufficed to say that if the mother is a little on the psychopathic side just imagine what her daughter will be like!
There are another three films in the ‘Ring Cycle’ series which I’ll be reviewing if I can get hold of the subtitles for them!
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