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June 27: Watched Maria. Was disappointed. I think the movie's summed up by the hack from Le Figaro who shows up outside the theatre towards the end: he's basically the entire atmosphere of the thing.
June 26: Couch-to-5k progresses.
June 25: Tonight's episode of The Sweeney featured entirely gratuitous nudity, and the actress didn't even get a credit for her troubles. "Think of the exposure", I'm sure they told her. Exposure is right.
June 24: Well that was annoying: mac up and kernel-panicked.

Also annoying: a DVD with a handful of actual titles but 99 fake ones on it.
June 23: On-call this week at t'office. Pager went off 15 minutes before shift-end, which was not nice.
June 22: And another George Gently. Also still excellent.
June 21: Watched A Complete Unknown again. Still excellent.
June 20: Black Bag is an excellent piece of work. It feels like John Le Carré - it's about the gritty, almost boring side of the spy business, rather than the action and derring-do of the likes of Bond and Bourne. I'll put it this way: you could translate it directly to stage and lose nothing. Beautifully played by all involved, and if it's your thing, it has a pretty decent roll call as well.

Annoyingly, the IMDb trivia for this movie is basically someone pasting an interview / puff piece a paragraph at a time into the interface and frankly I hate that crap.
June 19: More Sweeney. The episodes seem longer somehow - there's an awful lot packed into the hour and it's not always clear, given the precedent of the first episode, what the outcome will actually be. I have to say the plot of this one kinda escalated into incredulity rather quickly towards the end.
June 18: Second episode of the season containing a bit of implied eye candy for The Boys. I guess this is what passed for ratings-gathering in the 70s.