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Monday Apr 20, 2009

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Fortune smiled on me again for the first time in ages last week when I won tickets to see The Prodigy at Wembley Arena on the XFM Breakfast Show's radio phone-in. The gig was awesome, possibly the loudest event I've ever been too (my ears are still ringing three days later). I have my fingers xssed that I can make it two-in-a-row (again) by winning this week's competition for a holiday to Japan... tongue

I had a good friend come down to stay with me this weekend, which was nice. About the only other exciting thing to happen lately was getting a link for the leaked Caprica TV pilot (a prequel to the recent remake of Battlestar Galactica). Otherwise, life has been mostly work, sleep, TV, games, and trying to flog stuff on Ebay.

Some more film reviews for you though:

- Let the Right One In is a Swedish-language film (with English subtitles, obviously) about a local commuinty becoming the refuge for a child-like vampire. The film focuses on the relationship between a local, down-trodden, soft-spoken boy and the recently-arrived vampire, and it's more of a character study than a horror or a thriller. The two lead child actors are excellently cast and their performances turn a potentially perverse situation into something quite heart-warming so that by the end of the film you're really rooting for them. Some nice use of symbols too with a recurring theme of various characters placing their hands on glass or on doors to signify seperation or the duality of worlds.

- Crank 2 is bonkers, just bonkers. I didn't think it would be possible for the two directors to top the craziness of the first one, but they managed it. It would be churlish to write it off as just another dumb action flick - although you should check your brain at the door it is quite a post-modern hyper-real cinematic experience. While it never goes as far as breaking the fourth wall, it clearly isn't taking itself too seriously, and constantly plays with cinematic convention, giving you a sense of what it must be like to be inside the lead character's head. As example, like Timur Bekmambetov (the similarly bonkers director of Night Watch, Day Watch and Wanted) Neveldine and Taylor mess with the subtitles for foreign-language lines and have words appear in the air to mirror Chelios's thought processes. The action is also spliced with cutscenes from the past, references to characters from the first film, and a hilarious homage to Godzilla towards the end. Full of swearing, nudity and violence, this really is an outrageous film is every sense of the word.

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VIEW 13 of 13 COMMENTS
enne:
Thanks smile Hows you??
May 20, 2009
nanci:
Yeah they are my fav wild animal for sure! I can not wait to see one in the wild when I go on Safari! How are you?
May 20, 2009

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