Rain, you bastard! Rain!
Half-arsed newsletter went out yesterday. Not happy with it.
ON DECK: More of the same, generally.
INBOX: 70. Still some overdue responses.
LAST WATCHED: THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD, for no good reason, while I was writing on the ultralight laptop on the sofa. Kind of a throwback film, to the days where action-comedies ruled the world. Samuel Jackson and Salma Hayek appear to enjoy themselves immensely, Gary Oldman does about three days’ work for a laugh, and the direction is an amusing compendium of the last 25 years of action movie-making with some nice tricks – the guy knows how to keep the energy up. It does nothing new, but some of the action set pieces are worth study, and I’ll give credit to anything using practical effects and real actors (fun cameo from Richard E Grant, additional case in point).
OUTSIDE: no time for the outside world today!