Week in Review: December 24 - 29

Birthdays - Two birthdays this week, Game of Thrones' Kit Harington, better known as Lord Jon Snow, and Dame Maggie Smith, known most recently for her work in Downton Abbey, as the Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, and the Harry Potter films, as Professor Minerva McGonagall.

Movies - No new movies this week, so instead we did Christmas romance in Love Actually, the story of Jesus' birth in The Nativity Story, and rather raunchy comedy in Bachelorette. 

Books - Book of the week was Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, the fourth in the Outlander series and the first set-in-America book of hers.  While not as strong as the first ones in the series, it's definitely better than Voyager.

TV - Earlier in the week we did this year's Christmas Special of Downton Abbey, which I enjoyed despite its heavy handedness, and yesterday we did the fourth season of Project Runway Australia, which I did not enjoy, and the second season of Homeland, which I had mixed feelings about.

Recommendations - The only movie recommendation this week that I didn't also make last week was for Promised Land, which is getting a limited release.  Not that I'm complaining though, as it gives me a chance to get caught up on some of the movies released in the last few weeks.

Next Week - Next week is going to be a surprise of a week.  Les Misérables will be up, as will The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, making up for the lack of a new movie this week.  Book of the week will be Dark Lover, the first instalment in J.R. Ward's paranormal romance series The Black Dagger Brotherhood, which I've gotten really addicted to.  I'm not too sure what else we'll be doing, movie, TV, or bookwise, so you'll have to wait and see.

Requests - Anything I should check out? Let me know!

Birthday: Kit Harington

Today is the twenty-sixth birthday of Kit Harington, better known as (Lord) Jon Snow, on TV's Game of Thrones.

Prior to Game of Thrones, Kit was in absolutely nothing (at least according to his IMDb page).  The only other thing he's been in, so far, is Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which he appeared in along-side his GoT on-screen father, Sean Bean.  Game of Thrones, however, is not his only book-to-movie adaptation; in the next couple of years he's set to appear in The Seventh Son, based on the young adult novel The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney, and after that he is to voice the villain in How to Train Your Dragon 2, which is loosely based on the books by Cressida Cowell.  He has other stuff coming out too, but most importantly is the third season of Game of Thrones (as well as any future seasons, assuming he survives the third, which is an assumption you should never make with this series - the author of the books upon which the show is based, George R.R. Martin, loves killing people).

Point being, happy birthday Kit, and let's hope you survive long enough to do many seasons of GoT.