I saw 21 Grams, with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro, for the first time the other day.
I thought it was amazing. I would like to kiss Benicio on the lips - a scary guy with true screen presence.
Although, both Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are stunning and gripping too.

Watch this filum.

I feel like a bad version of Barry Norman. Kill me.

last really good movie i saw was zatoichi, it's a top-notch samurai movie if you're into that sort of thing.

i have several free blockbuster dvd rentals due to my doritos addiction, not sure what to get with them all. any suggestions, folks?

Went to check out Hero last night, great film; beautiful and kick-ass in equal amounts. It seemed as though each and every scene had been touched up to the nth degree to ensure everything was in unison in terms of colours and choreography. Breathtaking.

Shaun of the Dead, of course!!!

At the moment, me & the missus are trying to find time to see Open Water and Hero (OK, I'm dragging her to that), and Hellboy was rather entertaining and all that.

But if it's rentals, Zatoichi - fantastic film. Oh, and Trinket - but it turns out we forgot to finish filming it, and then there's the minor issue of editing the motherfucker...

shaun of the dead is already snuggling neatly in our dvd collection, and i saw zatoichi a week or two back... still top recommendations though, maybe the best two films of the last year.

In the last few days, I've watched both The Road To Perdition and American Psycho.

The Road To Perdition was quite enjoyable, if a little [totally] predictable. Not very challenging. The colour and season shifts through the film were nice though. Tom Hanks will never better BIG!

Christian Bale is good in American Psycho, but the film seemed more like a TV pilot then a fully fledged movie. Maybe the transition from book to film was too much of a task for Mary Harron (director). A bold and noble attempt, but kind of unfulfilling. Although, the use of the music-based dialog/references and 80's-era songs (as in the book) are great.

In science fiction, I'd recommend Dark City (better than The Matrix, and came out a year earlier - coincidence?) and Event Horizon (2001 meets Hellraiser).

This is the point I mention that my copy (as well as Series One and Two of Spaced) are signed by Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost...

Anyway, since I realised Eastern cinema is far superior some time ago, I heartily reccommend Bangkok Dangerous - just think John Woo meets the Warchowski Bros. But not shite like any of the films either of them have made in the last ten-plus years.

bah. i got some passport photos today, and if that's what i actually look like then i think i might actually be dead...

the vouchers went on 'a mighty wind' (the folk spinal tap - very good) and a bizarre-looking zombie musical (?!) called 'the happiness of the katakuris', which i haven't watched yet. i'll keep you posted if it's worth seeing...

A Mighty Wind, top stuff. Irwin refuses to watch it, as he hates the thought of folk being satirised. Bless.
Can I point people at Office Space? I got it for £5 on DVD in an HMV sale after a mate's recommendation, so it should be available at bargain prices. It's a proper film, but directed by King Of The Hill creator Mike Judge.
Anyway, it's a comedy about a pair of worker drones who finally snap at their bosses in their meaningless IT job. A situation we can all empathise with. Moreover, the script is so good even Jennifer Aniston is watchable.

Office Space is a brilliantly quirky little film. It's about the first film I've seen in this thread that I've heard of, as I'm such a movie buff 'n all

Anyway yeah, a lightly entertaining comedy that, for once, actually literally made me laugh as some of the characters' personalities are so overblown. Everyone should see this film!

the happiness of the katakuris was as bizarre as i'd hoped, but with a disappointingly low zombie count. very funny, but not intentionally so.

You just try to explain the karaoke bit to everyone else watching it with you. However, how can you say it isn't funny - it's a belly buster!!!

Be sure to check 'Infernal Affairs', brilliant Hong Kong thriller, saw it at Leeds film fest last year, the guy introducing it said it was refreshing as he'd seen several very poor Hong Kong thrillers recently. they were showing the sequel at the campus cinema recently but I missed it, ho hum.

Recently I went along to the cinema hoping to catch 'A bout de souffle' on the big screen, but it hadn't been delivered so they showed 'La Fleur du Mal', (Claude Chabrol's most recent work), which I can recommend, interesting characters, dark humour and very fucked up. I got to see it for free too, which was nice.

Also saw 'Zoolander' and 'The Happy Gilmore' recently and enjoyed them both.

I'm enjoying Stirling University quite a bit by the way, I've been a drunken fool, gone off on a bender while sober and made a social error or 2, but I'm settling in now and realising I'll actually have to do some work.

The appearance of Richard O'Brien was enough to completely ruin this film for me; you can imagine my disappointment when the credits began to roll before a single "TO THE CRYSTAL DOME!!!!" had been uttered.

Event Horizon, however, is one evil film. Highly recommended.
So too is Best In Show, the film made prior to A Mighty Wind by that Guest fella who did This Is Spinal Tap...doesnt feature any folk music though.

For shame.