Morning peeps
The Onion runs a story today about an AIDS awareness campaign being run by the US in Africa. The main message being "you all have AIDS"... made me laugh, anyway
Movie reviews and I was cruising IMDB trying to find out when Mirrormask might be playing en Belgique (it releases in NYC tonight....), looks like I'll have to go to London or wait until the Fantasy film fest here next March. London it is then. To the point and browsing the "to be released in Belgium" list I noticed a flick called Revolver, which I vaguely remember appearing on AICN a while back so I looked it up. This is Guy Richie's new effort, which didn't give me lots of confidence; not because I dislike his other stuff, but I just couldn't stand another round of cockney kor blimey knee slapping. The AICN review places it more in the genre of The Usual Suspects, which is heady praise indeed. In fact, they indirectly describe it as the Usual Suspects, if that film had left you to work out who Keyser Soze was for yourself instead of dropping the "it's HIM" bomb in the last 2 minutes before the credits. The review is long but interesting and best summed up for me by the following quote;
I love how reviewers are dodging the question of whether or not they understood the movie. The Toronto Film Festival review summed it up best saying, "It will keep you guessing until the end credits roll." There are no end credits.Kronenberg's "A History of Violence" looks good aswell
Finally, the bee in my bonnet and the Brit papers have been full of how some 80 year old CND bloke was kicked out of the Labour Party conference for heckling earlier this week.
"excuse me sir, is you under the influence?"
"Getting shirty are we sir? Oh dear oh dear, thump 'im Clive"
Now, frankly, I don't give a toss about the bloke, or about New Labour acting like the Conservative party-in-red that they have so obviously been for the last 10 years, except to point out that he didn't swear, spoke less than 10 words and the worst thing he accused the politician he was haranguing of was being a liar, which is frankly equivalent to giving him a pat on the back and saying "good job", for a politician. The real kicker for me is that this bloke, apparently very well known within the labour party etc old codger peacenik type, was held by the cops ... under anti-terrorism laws. Fuck, this is EXACTLY what all the pinko-liberal-bleeding-heard-socialist-libertarian types have been warning against for years with these laws. Even the Reverend Blair said on the radio (he made a personal and public apology, believe it or not) that he was sure that the cops didn't think the old guy was a terrorist. Well, where's the fucking enquiry into why they used anti-terror laws to detain someone they had no reason to suspect was a terrorist, then? Oh, you mean the legislation doesn't require reasonable suspicion to be demonstrated. well, well. Finished the Nikopol Trilogy and V for Vendetta recently; we're not so far off, you know.
Anyway, enjoy the weekend in your respective
Bomber out
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