The Green Hornet

Watched this the other night also - real 'Boy's own' stuff with a terrible plot. Adam Sandler would've been more suited for the lead role!  4 out of 10 (Save it for the kids school vacation!)

Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.


Director: Michel Gondry
Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and 1 more credit »
Stars:Seth Rogen, Jay Chou and Christoph Waltz
 

Sniper - Reloaded

Billy Zane is back for "Sniper: Reloaded" This 4th episode took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Africa).



Watched it last night  - bland plot, predictable progress but a movie that kept you watching: 6 out of 10.

London's Anarchy

Will the UK be the next domino to fall?

Nowhere Boy

(2009) A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life. Nowhere Boy is a British feature film about John Lennon's adolescence and the gradual evolution of his first band into The Beatles.The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood - his Aunt Mimi and his mother Julia. In addition, the film shows the first meeting of Lennon with future Beatle Paul McCartney and the development of their friendship and musical partnership.


Director: Sam Taylor-Wood, Writer: Matt Greenhalgh (screenplay),
Stars:Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff
8 out of 10

Standard and Poor's cut US credit AAA rating

Standard and  Poor's has cut the US credit rating for the first time in history, saying the country's politicians are increasingly unable to come to grips with its massive fiscal deficit and debt load.

S and P on Friday cut the US rating from its top-flight triple-A one notch to AA+, and added a negative outlook to it, saying there was a chance it could be downgraded again within two years if progress is not made cutting the huge government budget gap.


It said the "political brinkmanship" of recent months shows that governance in the country is becoming "less stable, less effective, and less predictable," raising the risks that it one day might not honour its debt.

It was the first time the US was downgraded since it received an AAA rating from Moody's in 1917; it has held the S&P rating since 1941.

The rating came after a strong pushback from the White House, which called S&P's analysis of the economy deeply flawed and politically-based.

Standard and Poors cut US Credit rating.

Now the shit hits the fan! Everyone buckle their seatbelts as we are in for a wild economic ride!

Mobile car park!

Police are treating the death as a homicide

and kept Northbourne Avenue closed

to all southbound traffic until about 3.15pm

I was sitting in gridlock on Northnourne Ave yesterday morning - three klms of three lane car park - someone had found a dead body outside some flats near Ipima Street and the police had closed Northbourne Avenue in peak time. Had this sweet little ol deaf lady in the car - was taking her to hearing aid people. She kept asking "What's the hold up?" "Why arn't we moving?" "This ACT traffic is terrible, isn't it?" - Already told her three times what was up! So had to get out of the car for a break.


Got out to stretch my legs with a group nearby then I run into whinging Mini, her in the skirt up round her bum and knee high boots, puffing on a fag! This woman was complaining about the inconvenience. I told her that she was in a better state than the stiff who'd caused it all.

At least the tree cutters from ACTEWAGL suspended their median strip activities near the ABC radio studios corner. I don't think they could get onto the tarmac to block the laneway adjacent to the median strip 'cos it was already 'chockers'. Would probably been lynched if they tried, such was the mood of the drivers stuck in gridlock.

Laughed at the cars that kept 'zig-zagging' and lane changing! You idiots - it was the same in all three lanes!

We eventually made it to a detour route and had a quick run to the edge of the city and our destination – only 15 minutes late. After her appointment was over the little old dear told me “I was the only one in there!” – Sure thing, love – all the rest are still stuck in traffic out on Northbourne! LOL!

Cold improving - busy week!

My cold is improving, the antibiotics are doing their job, pity it got down into my chest and left me with a hacking cough (Gosh! my sore ribs!) and a mild dose of bronchitis - which I haven't had since I stopped smoking 30 years ago!

Have two 'drives' for HLSS - they've been all over the place with appointment and passenger changes - but I'm off over to Canberra this morning to take a lady to the Hearing mob and tomorrow I have to take a gentleman over to Quenbeyan Hospital to the dentist. Haven't been to Qbn Hospital since they renovated it, however, I'm told he knows where he's going as he's been to the dentists over there on several occasions.

Rhonda is recovering from her cold - its a terrible chest virus that's doing the rounds, half the town has coughs - and is back at work today. She works today, Friday and the weekend then we are off to "The Camp" for 4 days R and R in the bucolic, smog free, countryside beside the lake!

Tootle loo! Pip Pip!


Postscript:
Just arrived back from Canberra - 4 hour round trip. Some bloke had the temerity to be found dead outside a block of flats on Northbourne Avenue (main drag) so police closed Northbourne and turned it into a 3 klm x 3 lane car park. At two intersections, impatient motorists trying to dodge around it were involved in multiple vehicle accidents, blocking two by-pass intersections! Lovely!