Back Again

Haven't been around much, been very, very busy, hope to get back to updating it regularly again now, calender is less full the rest of this month.

Anyways it was my Birthday yesterday (by that I actually mean Thursday, it's early morning Saturday I guess when I write this), I turned the grand old age of 25- a quarter of a century, 5 years to 30, had a typical Birthday day in which I didn't really celebrate it. On with some recent DVD watches of the last couple of days.

Revisited the 1932 movie Freaks a couple of days ago, If I'm honest I've always had something of a fasination with abnormal people, that's why I'm such a big fan of the movie The Elephant Man and this. The "Freaks" where not actual actors but real genuine circus performers and it shows, some would say Dracula was Tod Browning's best film but this is much better. It's admittedly a little on the outdates side but at least there is a strong sense of unity (family) in the "Freaks" even if the finale goes off into horror terrority, weird ending aswell (which I will not spoil for you here).

Birthday viewing was Superman Returns- which marks the second year running I've watched a comic book movie on my birthday (It was X-Men: The Last Stand last year), It took a little while to pick up it's momementum but when it did it was extremely solid, Brandon Routh abely steps into Christopher Reeve's costume (who you can't help but compare to), Kevin Spacey is a strong Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman is still the king Luthor to me though) and I always like seeing Parker Posey in any movie. Only casting misstep is Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, just seems too young to me for how I envisioned Lois.

Hot Fuzz, reteamed Spaced/Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in a satire of big Hollywood action movies (I hesitate to use the word spoof as it's been tarnished with Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie and so on...) with a London cop transfered to a small English village. A top notch cast including the leads, Paddy Considine, Olivia Colman and probably a showstealing turn from Timothy Dalton. I actually think this is a better movie then Shaun of the Dead, which I think is a tad overrated.

Idiocracy, stuck in release limbo for a while is the first film from Mike Judge since the cult favourite Office Space, whilst not scaling the heights of that or Beavis and Butthead or King of the Hill, it's still an enjoyable enough movie with a couple of funny moments. I do think the premise had a lot of potential and it's not explored enough (the film comes in at around 80 minutes). Maya Rudolph looks beatufiul in this movie. Worth a watch but don't except a cinema classic.