Change in the weather

Be careful what you wish for. I wished for a change in the weather and got thunderstorms with a forest fire caused by lightning. Yikes!



The Sorcerer's Apprentice


A fun but non-original idea that didn't deliver. Ancient sorcerer Balthazar (Nicholas Cage) is looking for the one who can wear the dragon ring, to help him free his girlfriend who is trapped in a nesting doll with the evil Morgana. The other layers of the doll have other trapped wizards. Nerdy guy becomes that apprentice, mayhem ensues in modern day New York. It's part Cinderella, part Fantasia (yes, they do the house-cleaning sequence), part Karate Kid, a touch of Harry Potter, and lots of other similar genre movies. It appeared to me to be a series of scenes or set-pieces, lacking the sense of momentum which obviously needed to be there to get us to the climactic scene. I didn't like Nicholas Cage in it, but to be fair, I don't like him in anything. I think he went to the same acting school as Helen Hunt. He has one facial expression, either worried, constipated, or waiting for Botox, one of those describes it. He is not believable as a magical person. Hmmm, that's an interesting idea in itself. Alfred Molina models Horvath on David Suchet's Hercule Poirot, at least sartorially, and there is a random magician rock star who could have been played nicely by Russell Brand, but wasn't. The geeky guy is okay, the maybe girlfriend is superfluous, the female sorcerers are non-events. Best bits: geeky guy's laboratory in a disused underground railway, the eagle and, no sorry, can't think of anything else. There was some good music.



Yesterday it rained. I don't think the kittens have ever seen rain. Must have been a shock for them. Wait till the snow comes!