News Round-up 30 May 2015

I was home in France last week end and I had fun on my uncle’s farm trying to take pictures of his animals. I ended up taking mostly pictures of flowers and told my mother that it would be “my pastoral series”.

There was a big fuss about the “Eurovision song contest” and France placing 25th or something, but the song was utterly boring, and I will complain about Belgium not doing as well as Italy or Russia and finishing 4th when their song was, in my humble opinion of course, actually much better. Rant over, that's me done being lame for the year :D

 

In the news:

• Tilda Swinton will be in Dr Strange. Huzzah.
• I wasn’t too sure about the World of Warcraft film until someone said “Duncan Jones”. And it really is happening.
• A studio in Limerick? (Insert Irish accent here) Sounds alright.
• Reese Witherspoon will be Tinker Bell. The obvious choice.
• 37 year old Maggie Gyllenhaal too old to opposite a 55 year old? What the…? Although, to be fair, this is hardly surprising.
• Unfinished Orson Welles memoirs anyone? Please add this to my wishlist.
• Another case of “whitewash”, apparently. Which reminded me of what I said last month about Avatar. And now, I think M. Night Shyamalan is responding directly to me and defending his film, which I called “really naff”.
• Immensely talented and beautiful Rosamund Pike in a “racially charged African drama”.
• Pitch Perfect performing better than Mad Max. Not surprising, it was very very funny. I cried a little.
• Wonderful Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes is obviously gonna be great. The film getting sued for copyright infringement is lame.
• A remake of Point Break? What what what?

Also, The Witcher 3 is big and beautiful (and sometimes a bit gory), but hard, man!
Talking about big and beautiful,  Jaws of Hakkon, the DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition is finally out on PS4 and it’s great fun too. I so am totally smitten with Scout Harding.

On this note, our dear friend Cyril Ficus needs some TLC, so gotta go.

Have a great week end, everyone!!