Greg Stolze et al, stand-up guys

Click here to download Executive Decision, the Capitol Hill RPG released free after raising enough money for charity. Lacking a credit card, I put some money into my local Red Cross and encouraged from the sidelines, as I am doing now.

The barge party

I've now uploaded my own photos and they're... largely terrible. I should really remember the Night setting when photographing people standing by the edge of a canal in darkness, and the red eye filter at other times.

Derek wasn't actually drunk at this point. Honest...

Our gracious host versus the Vampire Beer!

Anyway, it was a lovely time and a great meal, sasori was rendered speechless by the surprise so we all felt like master spies, and then there were drinks and dancing and this is always a bonus.

The Corpse Bride

... was funny, sad, looked gorgeous, had two feisty female heroes and a hapless male heroine (since 'hero' is now a unisex term, why not the other way?) and was Gother than a very Goth thing. If you like funny, sad, gorgeous, feisty, hapless and Gother than Goth, go see. None of the songs are as catchy as This Is Halloween, but then so few songs are.

Trailers, baby!

And as well as The Corpse Bride, there were trailers. Not the big impressive The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe one that I was expecting, but my first big-screen view of the big impressive King Kong one instead, as well as...

The new Harry Potter which would seem to have borrowed soundtrack cues from Lord Of The Rings...

Everything Is Illuminated, the next phase of Elijah Wood's campaign to shed potential leading man status by looking as unattractive as he can...

The Brothers Grimm, a film Terry Gilliam succeeded in making and getting to the cinema (which is always a pleasant surprise) looking here like a more intentionally funny Van Helsing...

And Lassie. Yes, Lassie. A grim-up-north 1940s British period origin story for Lassie. Complete with familiar British character acting faces in 40s clothes, one of the League of Gentlemen as a bungling villain, a very cute collie in the lead, a wildly inappropriate use of that big swooping Britpoppy ballad with the strings which may be called "She" (Shee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-EE...) in the soundtrack and confirmation that, yes, 'hero' is now a unisex term. urbankat and I did our best to stop giggling within a minute. We may not be the target audience...