Category Archive: Films

Feb
15

Bobby as a jewellery model, me being photographed for the Echo, and Mickey Rourke.

Bobby with my Tourmaline necklace looking up, copyright Helen White 2011

This weekend I discovered that our cat Bobby is the perfect model for my jewellery. On Saturday I had a photographer around from the Echo, who took photos of me (and I pointed out that Bobby would be a better model than me) for an article about migraines and the Migraine Action Cardiff Support Group I founded on Facebook. I don’t like having my own photos taken, as I don’t think I am photogenic, but as it was for a good cause I said yes. So obviously I also decided to wear at least one piece of my jewellery, which happened to be this gorgeous Tourmaline necklace.

Jun
10

Tropic Thunder

Yesterday we watched “Tropic Thunder” on DVD and it’s one of the funniest films I’ve seen this year. Robert Downey Jr. takes the piss out of Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise, who I didn’t recognise at first, must have had the time of his life playing the nasty, cold-hearted producer. He was really good in …

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Apr
01

“Gone Baby Gone”

Yesterday I watched Ben Affleck’s impressive directorial debut which centres around the abduction of little girl -  and rarely has a film ending made me so angry. To me it was everything but a happy end and the protagonist certainly lost my sympathy. But maybe that was the whole point of the movie – I hope …

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