Category: Movies

As you may (possibly) have heard by now, there’s now a movie version of the The Simpsons TV series. The plot is pretty simple: Homer does something stupid, it was horrible consequences for the town, and as a result Marge and the family get very annoyed by him. But *The Simpsons* has never really been…

[Amazing Grace](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0454776/) is the tale of [William Wilberforce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce), the crusading British MP who was instrumental in the banning of the slave trade. The story picks up in the very late 1790s, with Wilberforce defeated by the pro-slavery forces in parliament. Sickly and defeated, he tells the tale of the early days of his involvement in…

Last week we went to see [The Last King of Scotland](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/), the new film based on the regime of [Idi Amin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_amin). The film (based on the book of the same name) is a fictionalised account of a doctor (Nicholas Garrigan, played by [James McAvoy](http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0564215/)) who falls in with the regime of Amin. But the centre…

That someone made a [film about the Helvetica font](http://www.helveticafilm.com/)? Or the fact that I really want to see it now… (Via [Daring Fireball](http://www.daringfireball.net/)).

That of those 16 movies I fully expect that Helen will want to see about 6…

A few of the films that I want to see coming out this year (in release date order): For Your Consideration. From the makers of Looking for Guffman and Best in Show (and A Mighty Wind, which I haven’t seen yet). Should be fun, but uneven like the rest. The Fountain. Darren Aronofsky’s latest film,…

Quick review of Casino Royale, which I went to see last night. Overall, liked it a lot. The first half has some great action sequences, but the second half is the overall better movie. Good acting, and Daniel Craig is one of the most impressive Bond’s ever: after 20-some movies it’s nice to see a…

(No spoilers review) A couple of weeks ago now I went to see The Prestige, the new movie from Christopher Nolan (director of Batman Begins, Insomnia and Memento, all great movies). Overall, it’s a very strange, complex movie that I greatly enjoyed, although Helen not so much… Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian…