TMNT

I didn't go into TMNT expecting much (however John was crushed as he was expecting it to be live action so he could see Sarah Michelle Gellar) and was pleasantly surprised that this old franchise actually ended up being quite good.

Some of the animation was spectacular - although the human characters didn't really fit in with the style - and the story - being a kind of rip off of Ghostbusters wasn't too bad.

So all in all not too bad - if you were 7 years old, it would be the most awesome film that you had ever seen!

6/10

The Illusionist

I was glad that this wasn't a copy of The Prestige (which was a pretty decent thriller) . However, they really needn't have bothered with it, it was all great and lovely and pretty and well acted.

And then they spoiled it all with a crap ending.

5/10

300

The cinema manager was pretty cool as there was a bit of a mix up and the film shouldn't have been advertised on their website - this advanced preview was a private showing for a magazine.

Nevertheless, we managed to get in, although with the mix up we missed the start, but I don't think that much was missed.

It's not like it was a plot driven film - Neill Cumpston, a contributor to aint it cool said it best "I can’t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN’T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that’s hitting someone’s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey."

He's pretty much got it spot on.

The film is about 300 Spartans battling the approaching Persian army (roughly totaling a million men). The film goes for it pretty much from the beginning, focusing on epic battles rather than plot.

Not that the is anything wrong with that - the battles were cool, and just got bigger and badder as it went on.

Where it all fell down though, was that the film had the style but it was missing the one thing that elevates such a film to greatness - heart.

I wasn't that bothered when one of the Spartans was killed, which I think I should have been, seeing as it was a film about 300 against a million.

I'll forgive the film for this though, as it got the spectacle bit right and it had a bit of a metal soundtrack (but with the now-obligatory Gladiator-style bits when it was a bit sad!).

6/10

Ghost Rider

I walked into the theatre knowing that this wasn't going to be very good...

...and was shocked that it was awesome.

I'm kidding - It was the usual pointless, uninspired Marvel rubbish.

3/10

The Number 23

When Jim Carrey is good, he is pretty good. In The Number 23, Jim Carrey is good. And it looked pretty.

And now for the cons...

It wanted to be clever but it wasn't clever. And if it was, I still wouldn't have liked it as it spends the last 45 hours chirping about how bloody clever the film was.

I mean, there are lines like "Did you see what colour his tie was? It was pink, that is red and white. Red and white adds up to 92. 92 divided by 4 is 23."

And that is the substance of the film. It was annoying.

I was praying for Jim Carrey to be run over by a bus just so that it would end.

I wanted to like it, but it sucked.

Should I give this film 2 or 3 out of 10? Oh 2 and 3 is 23. IT IS NOT CLEVER

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

This is about a day on Hampstead Heath - the camera moves between various couples discussing relationships. There are quite a few familiar faces, most notably Ewan McGregor, but ultimately, I wasn't really sure of the point of the whole exercise.

5/10

The Science Of Sleep

Romantic comedies suck right?

Well... they tend to do when they are the formulaic tripe that tends to be on at a multiplex, fortunately The Science of Sleep uses special effects made out of cardboard, tri-lingual dialogue and general weirdness and mayhem to keep it out of the formulaic rom-com category.

And that is the way it should be.

One of the best films that I've seen so far this year - 8/10