The highlight of the weekend, though, was Zero Dark Thirty, the fascinating hunt-for-Bin-Laden tale backed by financier Megan Ellison's (daughter to Oracle founder Larry Ellison) that is drawing serious awards heat in the US.
There was some fascinating footage of one Tsapanawa man hunting and other Tsapanawas in their village - and some comic moments too.
The movie follows the fascinating life of rare-fruit detectives and smugglers hunting exotic fruit willing to preserve biodiversity.
What's clearer, and fascinating even at this distance, is the FBI hunt that tracks him down as soon as a snarling Hoover is ordered to find the killer of the freedom fighter he so manifestly despises.
Shrikes are fascinating mini-predators, not much larger than blackbirds but hunting everything from lizards and beetles to other birds as big as greenfinches, and storing them in thorn-bush "larders", on the spikes of which their prey is impaled.
A second oil boom after the second world war produced a new generation of Texan tycoons such as the Hunts and the Basses.Kevin Phillips has compiled fascinating lists of America's 30 richest families throughout the 20th century.
He describes the past three months of the campaign essentially being piloted off to fucking Mars on a political rocketship as "a fascinating experience," as though he spent the summer fossil-hunting for ammonites on the Devon coast.
Another fascinating thread is the level of consistent political will the hunt has required.
It's fascinating for the way it glancingly juxtaposes the McCarthy witch-hunts – with their skewered take on truth-telling – with the attitudes of white liberals who say one thing about race but think something different.
Throughout their 15 years together, Windrow filled notebooks with fascinating observations of Mumble's behaviours, such as her improving flight and hunting skills, her eating and bathing habits, and even that she enjoyed drinking from a dripping kitchen tap.
