Possibly the last outing to the movies for many months....

One of the things which Husbandio and I promised we'd do in our week off together before Pumpkin's arrival was go to the movies. We did lots of jobs earlier in the week but today managed to squeeze a movie in during school hours - I've never been to a movie at 11am before, but it was kind of cool. And we even managed a trip to Sainsbury's first, to stock up in preparation for several family visits over the weekend.

The movie we chose was The Boat That Rocked, the new Richard Curtis film. It's about a pirate radio station operating off a ship in the North Sea during the 1960s, which on the face of it is not very promising for a sitcom-type of movie. But, as with all Richard Curtis movies, the ensemble case was very good and really carried the film - Bill Nighy was fantastic, as was Phillip Seymour Hoffman. For me, Nick Frost was kind of weak (sorry, not a sex symbol in my book, and never will be....), and the effects were poor. The blue screen work at the end and the rocky camera work at the beginning (to demonstrate that we were on a boat - yes, thanks, I got that....) were, respectively, very obvious and very seasick-making. But the plot was fun, if stretched out a little bit (could have been 20 minutes shorter), and just the act of going to the movies is always a treat for me. Especially on this occasion, since I'm not sure when we'll get to go again, plus we bought the tickets using the points on the Nectar card, so it was essentially a free outing. And we all know how I feel about free....!