quiet trickster

Predictably, I’m behind on updating my reviews of the last EIFF films. I stayed overnight in Edinburgh at the weekend, so was away from my computer, and the backlog kept getting bigger and bigger…

‘Course, the real reason I’ve failed to update the reviews is that the first thing I did on returning home was watch the penultimate episode of Doctor Who, and immediately collapsed into a fangirlish heap of ‘What? No! They can’t! They wouldn’t! It can’t be!’ (If you don’t know what I mean, watch this now. Or not. I’m not forcing squealing fandom on anyone. Really.)

After recovering, and having contempt for spoilers, I spent several hours chasing the feverish speculation online about the series finale. To which the only real conclusion that can be made is that Russell T. Davies et al at BBC Cardiff have pulled off a major coup in these spoilered times - nobody knows what’s going to happen.

Sigh. I thought Heroes was bad for my cliffhanger rage…

Daaaviiiiid! (Isn’t he lovely? He is lovely, isn’t he?) If he’s leaving, I may have to hunt RTD down and kill him…

I’ve been surreptitiously updating the site to include my reviews of the films I saw at last years EIFF, and got slightly distracted by the vast number of cinema tickets I’ve accumulated.

25 since the start of the year, not counting the films I saw more than once (No Country for Old Men, Son of Rambow and, uh, Iron Man*). Fair enough, you might think - that includes the Glasgow Film Festival.

But then consider that I didn’t actually see anything at the cinema in March (well, Vantage Point, but let’s draw a discrete veil over that). And it doesn’t factor in my serious DVD habit, and the return of Doctor Who to the country’s smaller screens (Go iPlayer!) (Isn’t David Tennant lovely? He is lovely, isn’t he?)

So maybe it’s not so surprising I never update the website…

But I’m seriously considering going through these tickets and, at the very least, seeing how many of them I remember - for reasons good and bad. They go back to the start of my uni days, which is nearly ten years (gulp) - so as good a time as any to wonder what I’ve been doing all this time. And a splendid way of avoiding writing…

*Hey, I stand by my trashy superhero movie choices. It’s got Robert Downey Jr. - what was I supposed to do?