• Home
  • Chilli Pepper Scale
  • The Early Research
  • Hall of Fame
    • The List
  • Genres
    • Drama
    • Horror, Thriller, Supernatural
    • Comedy
    • Action, Crime, War
    • Science Fiction, Super, Fantasy
    • Art House, Musical, International
    • Gritty, Challenging, Documentary
    • Romance, Matters of the Heart
    • Kid Friendly
  • Blog
SPICYWATCH

Dumplings, ACMI and vintage Scene It.

6/7/2014

0 Comments

 
Had a really great day making Perogi and Gyoza with Shane and the girls on Friday. We traipsed across the globe from Ukraine to Japan making a delicious assortment of dumplings that managed to fill the best part of the entire day. I was stuffed better than a Christmas turkey in the end, but what a great feast we had!
Headed into Melbourne on Saturday morning to check out the latest ACMI offering - The Dreamworks Animation exhibition. All manner of information regarding Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda to name but a few. The art work was dazzling, the story boards fascinating and the dragon riding simulator had me so excited that I very nearly shrieked out loud with joy! This was an exhibition for the big kids at heart and a bit lighter on than previous exhibitions that I have been to at ACMI, but I still loved it and so did Zoe and Seth. I think that taking anyone under the age of 7 would probably be a bit of a waste of money though, as it was more gallery than action and the interactive stuff was clearly designed to be handled by older and wiser fingers. 
After bento-box lunches, I knew that a visit to Melbourne wouldn't be complete without a stop in at the Block Arcade on Collins Street. I always feel like a child again when I peer into the front window of the Hopetoun Tea Rooms at the decadent cakes and delights. It always makes me think of the times that my mum would take me into the city to cash in her Lipton's tea coupons and we would get a treat of some sort.
And who can pass up a stop at Haigh's 
chocolate shop? Not me, that's for sure! Came home with an utterly unnecessary block of coconut and macadamia chocolate and a tin of supreme drinking chocolate. God these holidays have fattened me up like a prize sow ready for the agricultural show!

We all spent the evening playing a board game. Seth found an old and yet complete version of the Scene It board game when we were Op shopping the other day; stung us a whole $5. Well the questions were pretty dated, and the clips were retro to say the least, but we played it anyway. Seth, Craig and Zoe against me because apparently I know too much about movies! Really? - that seems unfair! Anyway, turns out that I don't really know enough at all and they hung me out to dry, bastards! I will get 'em next time! 
But all of that retro movie talk did get me thinking about an oldie and a goody that I do highly recommend that everyone sees, which was also being played on a TV monitor at ACMI interestingly enough. 
Picture
eXistenZ
Release Date: 1999
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 97 mins
David Cronenberg (aka the King of Venereal Horror/ Baron of Blood) steps into the Science Fiction/Thriller realms with this walk on the wild side movie about an organic gaming system called eXistenZ. 
We are plunged into a future where interactive gaming is biological, people literally 'plug into' their video games after being fitted with a bio-port. Once you are in eXistenz the world alters, it is both usual and unusual all at once - organic and in-organic. Objects can be manipulated in new and inventive ways and opportunities to bend reality seem endless; it is an eerie and highly interesting existence indeed.  
Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh are fabulous as the couple on the run in a strange foreign landscape, and this is truly a breakthrough body of work from Cronenberg. Considering the limited technology in gaming when it was released, eXistenZ was a fresh perspective in its day.
FINAL SAY: Get fitted for a port
3.5 Chili Peppers 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Hi, my name is Barb.
    I crave excellent, high quality viewing experiences. 
    ​Share in my addiction. 

    Picture

    Categories

    All
    Action
    Art House
    Comedy
    Disasters
    Drama
    Eating Out
    Fantasy
    Foreign
    Gatherings
    Gritty / Documentary
    Horror
    Kid Friendly
    Life
    Mum Stuff
    Romance
    Science Fiction
    TV
    War

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photo used under Creative Commons from Crysco Photography