The Brit(ish) List

( This week: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' season two, Samuel West issues rallying cry to save theatres from demolition, Jamie Parker and Tom Hiddleston tackle Shakespeare's Henry V, James Purefoy back to scare, James McAvoy on the set of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby in New York, Henry Cavill embodies a grittier superhero in new Man Of Steel trailers, Matt Smith banned from playing football by Doctor Who bosses, Skyfall photos show Daniel Craig getting ready for action as Bond, Shirtless Dominic Cooper's Italian Cruise, Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville is nominated, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron in kinky shoot )

pocket full of posies

There was stuff I was going to say but this has been a waste of a week. Just an absolute non week of work, tissues, asprin and dvds. This is a plague ship here.

At least being dashed unwell has given me an excuse, or at least, I've given myself an excuse, to catch up on the stack of disks waiting viewing. Got my Fassy fix in Haywire, with bonus Ewan McGregor, and young Mr Tatum getting the snot kicked out of him as well he might.

Anyone who can't properly enunciate the name of my most beloved fictional hero, sacred to me since I was ten, deserves a good arse kicking my opinion, but this is what I get when Hollywood hires ex-strippers instead of someone who has been to drama school and done theatre and Shakespeare and television before hitting the movies, but Hollywood knows best. The sooner somebody properly discredits the American mumble school of acting the better. It's not deep. It just requires closed captioning.

Anyways, also got bonus Fassy fix when I found X-Men on cable. Yay Fassy. With added McAvoy, for good measure. J' Adore wee Jimmy McAvoy.

Doubled up on Peter O'Toole when I watched How To Steal a Million, which is a joy, a silly, daft, joy, and then found Lawrence of Arabia on cable. Swoon.
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