You probably thought I had forgotten all about this place right? Wrong, I just haven’t had much to say about anything lately. Anyway, here are a few movie reviews…

The Incredible Hulk
I haven’t seen the Ang Lee version so wasn’t able to compare, but the opening shot of Ed Norton was enough to keep me happy. Entertaining without being cheesy, a plot that didn’t insult the audience - a couple of nods to the TV show and some pretty cool Hulk SMASH moments.
but seriously… Ed Norton in the opening scene, in the words of the Kool-Aid jug ‘ohhh yeahhhhh…..’

Wanted
This one annoyed me so much I can’t be bothered on expanding any of the points below:
Morgan Freeman only plays one role now.
McAvoy doesn’t (and shouldn’t) do yanqui accents.
I wonder what kind of roles Angie will get when her tits start going south?
Guns don’t kill people, trains do.
All the best bits are in the trailer.

Gone Baby, Gone
Ben Affleck should stay behind the camera. His strengths are obviously in writing (screenplay) and directing. Much, much better than I expected it to be. Could be an Oscar contender, although its release date in the middle of the year might put the kibosh on its chances if people forget about it before next Feb.


AdULTHOOD
Priscilla has a habit of bringing me to mucky movies. When we went to see ‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ his first comment as we exited the theatre was ‘Damn, I thought there would be more sex in it.’ He’s off the booze at the moment so I guess he has to get his thrills somewhere. I gave him a dead arm for that one, but at least when he suggested AdULTHOOD I had a vague idea of what I was letting myself in for.
I hadn’t seen kidULTHOOD so Pris gave me the short version of the plot as we chomped popcorn waiting for the movie to start. Priscilla is pretty shit at explaining things clearly so I was even more confused when he was finished.
‘There’s these two girls and one of them kills herself and it all takes place over two days. And the boys just spend the time taking coke and one of the girls finds out she is pregnant and then this guy kills the father at the end - and he’s the one that this movie is about.’
It was about this point I became blonde.
‘The father?’
‘No, the other guy.’
‘The dead guy?’
‘NOT the father of the girl’
‘Which girl? the dead one?’
‘No, the girl who is pregnant.’
‘Why would he kill her father?
‘He didn’t.’
‘You said he killed her father.’
‘No he killed the father of her baby.’
‘Which baby?’
‘The babe with the power’
‘What power?’
‘The power of voodoo’
‘Who do?’
‘You do’
‘Do what?’
‘Remind me of the babe’

Set 6 years after kidULTHOOD, AdULTHOOD takes place over a single day. Sam (Noel Clarke - ‘Mickey’ in Dr Who) has just been released from jail having served his time for killing Trife (that’d be the baby’s father) and despite the signs of remorse it doesn’t take long before things take a familiar pattern.
Clarke wrote, directed and stars in the movie - which makes you kind of want to hate him, but the boy has got TALENT and you’ve got to respect that. This is a gritty portrayal of urban London made all the more relevant at a time when kids are dying on the streets for stupid reasons. AdULTHOOD doesn’t glamorise the life, nor does it try to give a reason for it. Some scenes are difficult to watch and the conclusion doesn’t end with a ‘happily ever after’ but it does end, and sometimes thats enough.