Napoleon Dynamite

Cool movie about Napoleon, one of Idaho's geekiest kids. He lives with a mad grandma and a 32 year old brother who spends ages on the net chatting to women... He juggles his bizarre family life with helping his mate to become class president. Great fun, some cringey moments and a hilarious final dance sequence... wait until the final scenes after the end credits too.

DVD R1
Colour
****

Jersey Girl

Ok. It's taken a while to build up the courage to watch this Kevin Smith movie. Smith is an awesome writer and usually hilarious film maker so why the delay... J Lo. Basically the whole problem was with the Ben Affleck / Jennifer Lopez thing. This is the movie that there relationship started on. This was bad for dear Kevin as the subsequent media blah overlooked the actual movie... anyway, so I watched it. It's great. One bonus is that J Lo dies early on! What's left is a thoughtful movie about life, kids and the rest. It's well written with the usual Kevin Smith things going on in the background - it's better than the average romcom thing and I liked it mucho.

There's some awesome extras on the DVD - especially Roadside Attractions made for the Jay Leno show...

DVD R2
Colour
****
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Arabs in the Midst

Attended this premiere of a documentary that explores the perceptions of Arab people in the UK. Made by a local guy, he travels around the country interviewing people about how they feel Arabs are potrayed etc as well as their feelings about being integrated or not into communities in the UK. It was an interesting idea and full points for getting a movie made and screened, but I found it overlong (90mins) an hour would have been better and as it was mostly talking heads it got kinda dull by the end - there's a series planned so hopefully some of these issues will be addressed later on, be interesting to see what happens - some intriguing ideas to follow.

UGC Cinema
Colour
**

Psycho 2

Norman is back.
Ok it took 22 years before he was released and starred in this sequel but it was worth the wait. I remember going to the movies to see this in Bradford at the ABC and although it's maybe not the best film in the world I love that house... Perkins is great as Norman and the soundtrack is especially creepy around the edges.

DVD R2
Colour
****
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Catwoman

Halle Berry does Catwoman. This is an 'origin' movie that is a little different plotwise to the DC Comics versions but as an action movie is ok. There's loads of CGI stuff and although the acting is a little hokey at times - this wasn't as bad as I expected! Think comic book and it's ok stuff. One weird thing was that Halle Berry does seem to be coloured to match the CGI rather than the other way around... intertesting approach.

DVD R1
Colour
***
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