Long Weekend

As I think I've mentioned before this is a long weekend and rather than waste it indoors I thought I'd have myself a mini film festival. Now when I say mini film festival, I do mean mini - the days of watching three films on the trot have long gone.

So yesterday I went to see The Illusionist - interesting but not original. I liked the acting, the dialogue, the scenery but the story... ohmigod how old hat. I've been trying to think where I've seen it before and I can't place it but it must one of those sci-fi/fantasy/crime things that I so enjoy.

Today I went to see The Devil Wears Prada - again an old story but Meryl Streep is magnificant. Very much rainy Sunday afternoon, nothing better to do and don't we all love a happy ending (let's ignore the infidelity) film.

Tomorrow I plan to see The Prestige (yes, another magician film but my choices are limited, people). However, the upcoming films look sooo good. We have Borat (yea Kazakhstan), Casino Royale (I hope to be shaken and stirred), Prairie Home Companion (I've been listening to that on BBC7 for years), Stranger Than Fiction (Emma Thompson playing herself again) and one about a future where women and men are suddenly no longer able to have children until one young girl becomes pregnant - the race is on to get her to a place of safety (unfortunately I don't remember the Spanish title so I have no idea what it was called originally).

I think I'm going to be well entertained over the next couple of weeks - oh and BTW we've been having earth tremors this evening, must be a quake happening.

Update: Sunday 10th December 2006; 13:34... the name of the film is Children of Men and it stars Clive Owen.