BLAB 25 ~ The Prestige and Grosse Pointe Blank

The BLAB 25 date is tentatively set for January 29^th 2015.  This may change if work dates don’t fit.  Homework is:

• The Prestige
• Grosse Pointe Blank

Also, don’t forget the game(s) of Risk Legacy on or around January 22^nd 2015.

Imagesofstollen.com

Here they are. The Stollen in all their glory. The domain is available.

BlabCast 24 – Audio

Here’s the exciting audio from this Month’s Blab. Stollen was the real highlight, which of course you can’t really listen to.

You can try right here.

BLAB 24 ~ The Night Of The Hunter and Stollen!

Yes.  Two whole years worth of BLAB!  And to celebrate we’ll be making cake.  BLAB 24 is in the calendar for Wednesday, 17 December 2014.  The venue is yet to be confirmed.  Homework is:

• The Night Of The Hunter, which can be purchased on DVD or Blu-Ray
• Each of us is to make and bring Stollen.  Whaaaaaaa?

Blab 22

What’s this? A new post I hear you ask? Yes, we’re getting back to up speed here at Blab after a very quiet summer.

Here’s the audio for Blab 22. We talked about Running Man and Downfall.

Interpretations of Under The Skin

Following on from BLAB 21, I thought I’d share these from critics who I respect if not always agree with:

• This chat on episode 268 of the SlashFilmCast is at times fascinating and quite relevant to our BLAB chat.  The Under The Skin review starts at about 22 mins.
• Josh Larson thinks it’s largely about “body image and its effect on human behaviour“.
• 20-minute interview on Filmspotting #485, by Adam Kempenaar with director Jonathan Glazer about how it shows humanity through an outsiders eyes.  Go to about 47mins for the interview. Also has interesting stuff about how it was filmed and the objectification of women.
• Alison Wilmore has a piece about how it is subverting the male gaze, which apparently is a pretty big part of film theory.
• Alison Wilmore (again) and Matt Singer discuss Under The Skin in Filmspotting SVU #63 – I haven’t listened to all this yet.

 

BLAB 21 – World Cup & Under The Skin

We’re going to aim for Thursday July 17.  Venue TBC.  Homework is as follows:

• 2014 FIFA World Cup in general with a side discussion on the comparison BBC/ITV television coverage.
• Under The Skin – which *should* be available to download from iTunes and/or Amazon from June 24

 

Mobile Frame Zero

I’ve been catching up with the wonderful DLC podcast over the past few days, and have just found out about the amazing sounding ‘Mobile Frame Zero’. This is a kickstarted rule-set for a tabletop miniature wargame using lego blocks you almost certainly already own.

You can download the PDF ruleset for free, but they almost certainly deserve some of your money for it.

Check it out at mobileframezero.com

BLAB 20 – The Wind Rises, In Your Eyes, Eurovision (& Hearthstone?)

Looks like we’ll try for Thursday June 12 2014. Homework is:

The Wind Rises
In Your Eyes
Eurovision (optional)

And did we also say Hearthstone?

Best Opening Scene?

From 0:00 to 1:43 it is absolute genius. Rivals Raging Bull for the title.