lightning strikes twice

• Consumer Discretionary – big drop last week, continuing downturn of last two months
• Consumer Staples – continued flat performance of last month
• Energy – up last week with increased volume, continuing same trend of last 10 weeks
• Financials – dropped two percent last week, the second week of two percent falls
• Financials & Property Trusts – same as financials
• Health Care – flat performance on increased volume
• Industrials – flat performance after last weeks drop. Volume steady
• Information Technology – second consecutive week of large drops
• Materials – trending upwards with stronger volume, and above EMAs with positive MACD
• Property Trusts – moved downwards below EMAs with steady volume. Has been downtrending since early January
• Telecommunications – flat week on slightly lower volume
• Utilities – volume steady, with MACD looking to cross downwards over signal line

Frankie (Clint Eastwood) begrudginly trains Maggie (Hillary Swank), an enthusiastic but unskilled boxer with no other dreams in life but to be a great boxer. The story is narrated by Eddie (Morgan Freeman), Frankie’s gym hand (surely the Morgan Freeman narration is a movie cliche by now?).

Despite his initial reluctance, Frankie becomes endeared with Maggie’s bravado and willingness to learn, and they form a friendship that replaces the irrelevance of their own family lives.

Themes include how family is not always where you expect, euthenasia, and potential earned and fulfilled.

9/10

From How To Save The World

The job of the media is to make interesting what is important. … What the legacy media do mostly now, an indication of lazy, cowardly, chintzy, risk-averse journalism, is try to make important what the lowest common denominator of viewers find interesting — irrelevancies like celebrity trials and sensational crime stories.

Hey, I like bananas — but this is going too far:

Banana Bunker

They’ve gone crazy.

Stabbed in the back? Forget that, stabbed in the front – five times!

Tom Cruise plays a bad-ass assasin with Jamie Foxx as an unwilling participant in his murder mission.

This movie was formulaic action, with the only point of interest (apparently) being Cruise playing a villain. Imagine! About as uninteresting and cliched a movie as I have seen in the last year I reckon.

4/10

I watched this yesterday after a big, big night out… and I actually really enjoyed it. It was totally predictable, but fun nevertheless.

Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is a struggling veteran tennis player on the verge of retirement. Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) is a young tennis star in the making. Through a chance meeting, she invigorates him and his game. Fill in the blanks from there, its not too hard.

6/10

This movie was dynamite! So quotable, and the styling rocks. I’ll definitely watch it again, so there’s not much need to document it (movies are usually written about here in case I forget them).

8/10

Simply because I seem to keep coming across wierd sushi-related stuff:
If You Knew Sushi

• Consumer Discretionary – Continued downtrend from highs in late december
• Consumer Staples – Slight downtrend from highs in late december, but not as pronounced as Consumer Discretionary
• Energy – price move upwards, over the course of week, but there was a strong up day, and a strong down day
• Financials – lost gains of last week, but still trading above 15 week and 30 week EMA
• Financials X Property Trusts – lost gains of last week, but still trading above 30 day and 15 day EMA
• Health Care – static week, not much price movement
• Industrials – still trading above both EMAs, but lost 2% last week
• Information Technology – lost gains of two weeks ago after a static week last week
• Materials – had a good strong week trading at new all time highs
• Property Trusts – continued downtrend started in early january
• Telecommunications Services – continued strong performances of last four weeks
• Utilities – slightly weak this week with minor price drop