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John August (writer of The Nines, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among others) has a blog. It’s a really good blog that I’ve been reading for quite a while now. Recently, of course, he’s been on strike, as he’s a member of the Writer’s Guild of America. While he’s not writing movies and such right now, he is writing about the strike, and it’s all very interesting.
Watched two movies last night (really, this is what holidays are for). The first was Beowulf and Grendel, a somewhat plodding and gritty retelling of the first two bits of the epic tale of Beowulf (as you may have guessed). The second was The 13th Warrior a much more exciting film also more-or-less about Beowulf, this time covering the third bit of the poem (sort of, in a way, in that it mentions a dragon). Fun, lots of swords and battle and general squalor, and, as an added bonus, a bit of Antonio Banderas.
In the spirit of the holiday (ok, not really), we watched Yojimbo last night, an Akira Kurosawa film starring none other than the ultra-dreamy Toshiro Mifune.
We’ve been watching the Zatoichi movies lately (we’ve watched the first three now), and they’re awesome.
That was gorramn awesome, go see it. I’m gonna go see it again tomorrow.