The Christmas holiday was a great time to catch up with the TV, games and movies I missed out in in 2011 – and I took full advantage of the time off! Here’s a brief summary:
- Game of Thrones – how did I manage to leave watching this for so long? Brilliant!
- Captain America – good fun, ended up watching it twice within a couple of nights – enjoyed Thor more though and very excited for Avengers movie!
- Portal 2 – eventually got to play this much-lauded game – it was great fun and almost perfect, but not my game of the year (predictably that goes to Skyrim)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – fitting end to the movie series, but without a recap at the start, I had to rely on my hazy year-old memory of what happened in part 1.
- Contagion – I’m a sucker for deadly-disease genre movies/books so was in my element with this. Director Steven Soderbergh (I loved Traffic) pulls no punches and refuses to glamourise the A-list cast – recommended.
- Cowboys and Aliens – hmmm, the jury is out on this Favreau flick for me – still have the last 30 minutes to watch, so will report back at a future date.
- Rise of The Planet of The Apes – ‘origin’ movies are all rage at the moment and this is a great imaginative rehash of the Planet of the Apes saga. Ticks all the boxes and is definitely in my top 10 movies of 2011 (even if it doesn have Serkis in it).
- Also managed to get up to date with Fringe, True Blood, Once Upon a Time, Criminal Minds, and Pan Am. US TV seems to be in a golden age at the moment, so many great shows and not enough time to watch them!
Did you use the Christmas/holiday break to catch up on anything?
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