Heads up anyone thinking of going to see Peter Jackson's latest movie, "The Lovely Bones", which we went to see today.

I thought the trailers I'd seen for this over the last few weeks, made it seem like the plot was a 'whodunnit', where the ghost of murdered Suzie somehow guided her bereaved father to uncover the murderer.

Wrong on both counts. There's no whodunnit and no mystery (other than who the hell thought this was a good acript!). Worse still, there's almost zero interaction between the dead Suzie and the living she leaves behind.

The whole ends up very unsatisfying, as (a) not much happens, (b) what does happen is verrryyy slooowww and (c) the two parallel plot lines never really gell or effect each other or come together.

Very frustrating and (imo) VERY dull.

For thos who like Rock n Roll, you'll be pleased to hear that Rabble-rousing Aussie rockers AIRBOURNE have announced their "No Guts No Glory" headline tour in February 2010, to coincide with the release of their as-yet-untitled second album. While much of the writing for the record took place in a disused Antipodean pub, the band are currently finishing up recording in Chicago with Grammy nominated producer Johnny K.

There are 13 dates, including Wolverhampton Civic, Nottingham Rock City and Manchester Apollo.

Check out:

http://roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/page/News?&news_page=&news_id=82179

and:

http://www.airbournerock.com/

Their debut album RUNNIN' WILD is also available (and really ggrrreatt!!!).

This is guaranteed to make comix fans turn into Victor Meldrew....

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8230504.stm

Me, I'm really looking forward to all the new potential team-ups:

Sub-Mariner/Little Mermaid

Snow White & The Seven Darkhold Dwarves

Hulk vs Mickey Mouse

X-Men Babies


Be Seeing You,

Lewis.

Apologies to the younger members of the club, but this is a partial review of an 18 certificate movie.

Went hoping for two things. A return to form for Mr T and mass Nazi-slaying. I wasn't disappointed. Wow!

Tarantino is at first somewhat restrained (for him) until the last 30 minutes or so when... well, you'll just have to watch the film. "Unhinged" would be the word for any other director that did this. But, being QT, he gets away with it. Unusually for him, the story is told in more or less chronological order. However, it's not following historic facts ('alternate history' or 'counter-factual' are, I think, the academic ways of putting it). Clearly owes a lot to the 'Dirty Dozen', but also German Cinema of the period, around which the plot revolves to some extent.

One memorable - and extremely tense - scene involves a load of chaps in Nazi uniform sitting around a table in a bar, playing the Sticky Forehead Name drinking game. Let's just say that the forfeit for guessing wrong could be a severe one!

A lot of the film is in French or German and subtitled. Not for QT this awful habit of actors putting on zilly accents vhen zey are meant to be talking in their own language.

Brad Pitt is good, but Christoph Waltz is absolutley stunning as the Jew-hunting Col. Landa - very chilling and at his most dangerous when he's apparently at his most charming and affable.

Definitely worth seeing.

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Anyone else going to see this for Father's Day weekend? Being a Dad, I can get my sprog to take me to cool-looking kid's movies and not be embarrassed about going to see them!

Personally I quite liked the first movie, but then I was far too old to be a fan of the cartoons. I'm a sucker for all that well-researched military detail - and the vision of the two Osprey VTOL craft made for a great opening!

Anyone else going to see this at the weekend?

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To be honest, the trailer had me at "Ter..."

So, Abrams neatly sidesteps the whole continuity issue in time-honoured Trek fashion... or does he? This has got to be the must-see movie of the weekend!

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