Snow joke ...

While large areas of the UK have been deluged with snow, here in Edinburgh we have barely experienced enough to create a medium sized snowball.  Our temperatures however have hovered around the zero Celsius mark for a while, so it's been "wrap up warm" time since just before Christmas and a perfect excuse to inhabit the local cinemas as much as possible.

Argo - John Goodman, Alan Arkin and Ben Affleck.
(c) Warner Bros. Ent

Fortunately there has been plenty of interesting films with the local art house theatre showing "Django Unchained", "Lincoln" and "Les Miserables".  Here at Footsteps Towers we hope to see them all in time for the Academy Awards in LA on 24th Feb 2013.

Chasing Amy - Ben Affleck and Jason Lee

We caught up with "Argo" at the end of last year and were seriously disappointed there was no Oscar nomination for Ben Affleck as Best Director.  Still many of us will break out the "Chasing Amy" DVD and relive Ben's comedic interplay with Jason Lee as two comic strip creators with a lesbian issue.





Boogie Nights - Thomas Jane, Philip Seymour Hoffman
and Mark Wahlberg

Undoubtedly the best Kevin Smith movie around, although some might argue there isn't much competition, it's a fun film for all the family.  Provided it's the Adams Family.  Hard to believe it was released in 1997, the same year that gave us "Boogie Nights", "The Ice Storm" and "LA Confidential".




So the recommendation from Footsteps Towers are

• Keep warm, go see a movie
• Dig out the old DVDs and watch some classic cinema
• Try to catch the Oscar nominated films, then throw popcorn at your TV when your favourites don't win on 24th Feb.