Wow. Been meaning to watch this for a long time, heard a lot of good things about it, figured it wouldn't live up to all the hype. It does. It's the 2nd best film I've seen this year (the best is Alpha Dog, planning to review soon).

Apparently a remake of the Hong Kong film The Killer, I haven't seen it but plan to check it out - if this is anything to go by it must be pretty awesome. With a huge cast of star names - Nicholson, DiCaprio, Damon, Sheen, Wahlberg... all of whom do stellar work. It's a little over the top at times, with some gratuitous language and violence (not something I'd normally complain about, but there are some moments where it seems excessive).

I wait at home all day today for a package from DHL (a large item that needs a signature). The tracking website informs me that the delivery driver took it out at 930am. It rolls around to 5pm and it has not yet arrived. I call DHL Customer Service, am told that they make deliveries up to 8pm and that someone from the local office will call me back to give me an update on when the driver will be here.

At 715pm a lady calls me and says she has just spoke to the driver, he is nearby and will be here before 8pm. At 830pm the package has still not arrived, I call back and am told the local office is now closed and all they can do is have someone call me in the morning.

So, we are getting ready to move, and I have also been tidying up my hard disk. I've come across some interesting things, amongst them this "concept art" I have but a vague recollection of creating.

It appears to be for a film called "Jimmy Demono Destroys the (20th) Century" - I seem to remember just having the title in my mind, and certainly can't remember any sort of plot or idea beyond that.

Britain has many successful comedy exports, Monty Python, Benny Hill... and some other ones. But here are some of the less famous British (and one Irish) comedy geniuses, brought to you by the power of YouTube:

Ed Byrne

Adam Bloom, Part One:

Wow. Finally, an action film that works. It has character, a good script (and more importantly a coherent plot), good lines, good acting and some great action set-pieces (without becoming over the top and cartoon like).

Casino Royale follows James Bond's first mission as a 007, as he investigates not a tyrant bent on world domination, or a madman with a nuclear bomb, but a banker who is helping terrorists invest their money. Not an obvious plot for an action movie, but the journey that the mission sends Bond on manages to be completely fresh and interesting, while still feeling inherently Bond-like.

How did this happen? How did a vaguely amusing, but generally stupid, crass movie (that for much of the running time simply doesn't work and isn't funny) manage to have people hailing it as "FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER MADE." I really am at a loss to explain how this happened.

After seeing the trailers and having seen Sacha Cohen on TV as Borat and Ali G, doing some pretty hard hitting humor/satire, poking fun at ridiculous people I had high hopes - but, coming as it does at the end of several years of Cohen doing his in-character interviews it seems he has run out of targets who actually deserve it, so instead of real satire or humor we get a complete retread: He talks to feminists (already done on Ali G with the same jokes), gangsters (ditto), makes an intentional dick of himself at a dinner party (done on TV as Borat).

Yes, I went to see the new Turtles movie. No, I didn't pay, I got free tickets.

As a Turtles film goes, its pretty much what you would expect, and in a good way - some nice action, enough funny bits to keep you amused and a morale lesson or two to give it some heart.

Where the film lives or dies is in the CGI. And, to keep mixing my metaphors, it is a bit hit and miss. The first part of the film gave me a sinking feeling, with a voiceover and a flashback to "ancient times" the CGI wasnt great, and it really looked like a boring videogame intro. But somewhere along the line, you realise the CGI is actually pretty decent - the high point being a rooftop battle in the pouring rain that manages to do "battle in the rain" better than Attack of the Clones did, and for a lowish budget kids CG film, that is quite an achievement.

In a Superman-style event, Marvel has killed off Captain America. While this doesn't really excite me as I've never really read any Cap comics, while reading about the story I came across this"

Some films we hear about years in advance, others I don't seem to find out about until they are nearly upon us. Maybe I've been out of the loop, but Danny Boyle (director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later) has directed a sci-fi film that's due in the next couple of months. It's called Sunshine and here's the trailer.

Looks alright. The plot is a bit Armageddon-ish, but the trailer makes it look a bit more of a space thriller like Event Horizon or Solaris than a fullblown action film. I'll go see it though, not enough sci-fi gets released anymore...

With our 2 for 1 movie coupon in hand we decided to go see this knowing full well that it was likely to be pretty bad. On arrival at the movie theatre we found out that the coupon was not valid for the newest movies out. So that was annoying.

Well, it was pretty much as bad as I thought it was going to be. The good: Some mildly amusing bits, some pretty good special effects. The bad: A serious lack of action and a lack of real emotion. Nicolas Cage plays Johnny Blaze, who starts the film as a boy who learns his dad has cancer and so sells his soul to the devil to save him. Except there is no real strong bond shown between the two of them, and when he finds out his dad has cancer he doesn't even look that bothered. He then grows up to be a stuntman who, again, doesn't seem that bothered that he is cursed by the devil, looking upon it as a minor annoyance to him rather than being wracked with pain and anguish about it. He needed to go on some kind of journey as a character, going from tormented soul to accepting his curse and becoming the Ghost Rider, but he just kind of stumbles through the film taking it all in his stride.