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Wall-E

Beautiful film, the first half especially when all we have is a lonely Wall-E with his pet cockroach on our screen. I did have a high expectation for this one and it easily lived up to it. The animation was stunning and the simplicity in the expressions used by Wall-E communicated volumes. Really, really liked it.


Gran Torino

Another excellent film, charting the relationship between a curmudgionly and recently widowed Clint Eastwood and his new Vietnamese neighbours. He helps them cope with a local gang causing problems and through this he realizes he has more in common with them than he believes. Clints delivery was a bit too gravelly at times but the matter of fact way he 'called it how he saw it' was brilliant and funny. Another Clint hit.


The Children

British horror about two families spending new years eve together, during this the kids become infected by some sort of bacteria which turs them into manipulative psychos. Its not too bad all told, the real horror being that the adults are fighting to survive against their own children. From a lecherous perspective, the young woman who plays the eldest daughter is an absolute hotty! Its worth checking out if you've got nothing else planned.