The Niffler who escapes from the suitcase; I thought a better name would be Tealeaf!
My Favourite Beast: The Bowruckle, every child should have one.
I still have this stupid bug
that will not let me stop coughing and apart from not feeling brilliant when I
first get up and then again in the late evening, I am giving thanks that I do
not feel that bad; plenty of people are much worst off than me with just a
little winter bug to contend with.
I did manage to get out and
go to see ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’, yesterday afternoon. Steve
dropped me down there for the 1.30pm show and picked me up for the 3.50pm
turnout. It is quite a long film, 2 hours 13 mins, considering that I would
think it would mainly attracted children.
There were not any children for this matinee showing,
in fact there were very few people there at all, I did a quick head count and
thought we were fourteen people who did not like each other much from their
choice of seating. I had at least the back three or four rows to myself and
that I was coughing now and again did not really notice because quite a lot of
the film has plenty of noise. I took cough sweets, a bottle of water and a
hankie with Pine Oil sprinkled on it to keep me as quiet as possible.
I loved it to bits from the
beginning to the end; it was quite delightful, though maybe not scary enough
for older children. Eddie Redmayne was utterly charming as Newt Scamander who
seemed to know all about where to find the Fantastic Beasts and how to care for
and protect them.
The old chestnut in the plot
about mistakenly getting hold of the wrong suitcase will be forgiven I am sure.
As usual with The Harry Potter collection of books and the movies they end up
as, it was full of stars. Colin Farrell was wonderfully slick and menacing as Percival
Graves complete with flowing silk lined coat, stuck-back hair cut and maybe he
had had the usually bushy eyebrow, heavily pruned.
Dan Fogler was adorable as
baker with the wrong case, Jacob Kowalski. Several other great stars were happy
to play small parts very seriously. Jon Voight and Ron Perling too (from Sons
of Anarchy) and who turns up in the end as the super international baddie
Gellert Grindelwald, but the lovely Johnny Depp heavily hidden beneath a mountain
of makeup. Super special effects throughout and all the Fantastic Beasts were indeed
just that. It will be one of those films that kids watch over and over again
and never tire of as good prevails and evil is defeated as we all hope it always
will be.
This is not a piece of modern art but, looking down into the chalky water from the centre of the bridge near Arundel Castle Dairy. I thought it was pretty
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