Liberty Valance...

There seems to be a quite ridiculous and unjustified amount of hand-wringing over the events surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden and demands for justification of why he was not captured and put on trial.

But this is a pretty good response...

Where The Wild Things Are...

This trailer is fantastic! I don't remember ever reading the book as a kid, but I'm looking forward to the film...

Find Any Film....

This is a web site I have been looking for:

http://www.findanyfilm.com/search

It allows you to find a cinema based on what film you want to see, not see a film based on what cinema you want to go to: important when your local multiplex is not showing the film you really want to see...

Slumdog Millionaire...

Is not the "feel good film of the year" or whatever it is they are claiming it to be on the posters. It is much better than that: a finely crafted fable (to quote Mark Kermode), with fantastic acting, sounds and visuals. And with subject matter including poverty, theft, prostitution, torture and murder, it is a lot darker than the tag line suggests.

It deserves all the accolades it is getting at the moment, and is miles better than 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood" that somehow managed to win Oscars last year, in this humble critic's opinion...

Once...

Superb film. Great music. Perfect ending. Excellent...

Helvetica...

A really interesting documentary about the impact the (according to the experts) of the near perfect font on the world of design. The font of corporate America, the ubiquitous boring font of too many designs, or a clear clean font that doesn't colour or the message as other fonts can: take your pick.

Not available on Windows though: we only have Arial, which (according to the experts) is simply and inferior clone ...!

Who You Gonna Call...

Not exactly babysitting, but I ended up looking after my 10 year old nephew-in-law unsupervised (me not him) for the first time on Tuesday. We watched Ghostbusters, a film, as a child of the '80's I loved and he did too!

So that forms the excuse for a host of new and (more importantly) old PG rated films to look out for and watch. This list will be updated, but your starter for 10 is...

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• War Games
• Tron
• The Black Hole
• Flight of the Navigator
• Time Bandits
• The Dark Crystal
• Gremlins
• Condorman
• One of our Dinosaurs is Missing
• Digby the Biggest Dog in the World

He may yet be too young for The Breakfast Club, but keep it in the Back Pocket ready...

"When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immoveable Object..."

An excellent film...! It presented some really interesting moral dilemmas and the downhill spiral that The Joker's philosophy presented was intense. Half way through I thought 'but this isn't as good as the first one', but in the end I think I shall have to think again...

 

 

And of course,  the unstoppable force, immoveable object question as posed by the joker is also posed in the Iain Banks novel Walking on Glass which is a very fine book. I'm not sure I really understood what was going on in the end, but sometimes that isn't always necessary: it is enjoying what is going on whilst you get there...