A Bug's Life

Really quite belated.

Books read (9 so far)
None. Not a one. Spent more time doing online study than reading.

Films watched (36-49) (10 at the cinema, 2 DVD, 1 video, 1 stream)
Push
Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier (rewatch)
5x2
Hairspray (John Waters version) (rewatch)
Noah
The Double
Upstream Color (rewatch)
Batman Begins (rewatch)
The Dark Knight (rewatch)
The Dark Knight Rises (rewatch)
The Secret of Kells
Muppets Most Wanted
Locke
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. plus reading and talk by Crispin Glover

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (15-20)
Megson (gig, Royston)
Austentatious (improv, Cambridge)
Perception (exhibition, Science Centre, Cambridge)
Downing, Christ's, Emmanuel, Darwin (visit four Cambridge colleges)
Kim and Lee (gig, Histon)
Creative Cabaret (cabaret, Cambridge)

Locke was a film where most people I spoke to who had seen it had got different things or interpretations from it. A surprising amount of post-film discussion for something that seemed so straightforward (a man leaves his job, gets in his car, and drives for 85 minutes. The reasons unfold in a series of phone conversations with his family and colleagues. Tom Hardy is the only actor we see; all others are voices)

The Batman trilogy was shown at the cinema in London; 8.5 hours to sit through all of them (with short breaks). Worth it to see the things that were set up near the beginning of the first pay off in the third (long after my memory had forgotten them from watching the films years apart). Lots of discussion (and arguing) of the themes of the three films, how they were different and which themes echoed right the way through all three films and several characters.