Day 726

Aka Saturday 26^th January 2019

Today I did some more prep for next Wednesday’s interviews…

…then I watched ‘Polar’, the Netflix adaption of Víctor Santos’s comic about Duncan Vizla, a retiring (in the sense of collecting your pension, not in the sense of meaning shy) hitman, who, for reasons unknown to him, is targeted by a gang of hitmen and women (hit people?). This results in Duncan going on a bloody rampage of revenge. Yes, ‘Polar’ isn’t 100% original, but it is fun and the story and execution have a humour/joy about it, which coupled with the charisma of the cast, led by  Mads Mikkelsen, who plays Duncan, rises the film up a notch, making it a bit special and meaning that you don’t worry that the story not being original, you just get carried along. 7/10. 

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…and the good times do continue with today’s crossword as I just need to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24), would have been better if I’d gone for ‘jam-packed’ instead of ‘ram-packed’ for 13 across (‘completely full’) and had studied geography, that way I would have known that a ’strip of land with water on both sides’ is called an ‘isthmus’. All in all, a pretty good crosswording week this week, but will it continue for next week’s crosswords?