Archive for September, 2008

Modesty Blaise – The Beginning

Modesty Blaise - The Beginning

Modesty Blaise - The Beginning

I found the DVD on sale a few days ago, I have more or less been looking for it since I heard about it. I was just sheer luck that I found it, as I wasn’t planning on checking through the box of various DVDs for sale, but I took a quick look at it as I went past. And there it was at the top of a pile, the Modesty Blaise DVD, I grabbed it 🙂 Didn’t bother checking for other DVDs even though it was a take three deal, but the price for a single DVD was good enough for me.

The movie is the story of what made Modesty who she is. The story starts in Romania during war time, when Modesty is just a little girl, without parents. But don’t worry we will not entirely follow her from childhood, the time line makes a jump to where she’s a young woman, working at a casino. Read the rest of this entry »

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

Bought the movie and got it home by mail the other day. Sat down and watched it on Saturday evening together with my boyfriend.

It is a story about escorting an outlaw, Ben Wade, to the train that goes to Yuma prison, it leaves the town of Contention at 3:10 pm.

Of course this isn’t an easy task, and on the way a couple members of the original escort group is lost during battle, not only by the hand of Ben Wade’s gang, who naturally wants to set their leader free, but also by the hand of Apache Indians and railroad workers. Read the rest of this entry »