On time Reviews!

After you have worked in a cinema and become accustomed to free movies, it is difficult to bring yourself to pay for them. Cinema prices are too expensive, there are better movies and a bigger selection at the video store, your living room doesn't have a gaggle of rowdy teenagers throwing popcorn at each other. In my experience I can't help by purchase some of that delicious popcorn either; I am sure that years of conditioning has left my body craving it and that accounts for the vast majority of the reason I do still periodically go.

But there is another good reason to go to the cinema this month at that is Duncan Jone's directional debut Moon. Unfortunately while being an excellent movie to see it is a difficult one to review without detracting from the mystique of the film. Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, a engineer on a three year contract to mine "Helium 3" on the surface of the Moon. Kevin Spacey voices GERTY, an emoticon faced AI robot programmed to help Sam and keep him from being too lonely in isolation.

One of the few films I have seen recently based upon an original idea and executed fantastically. I cannot sing its praises enough but I won't post a trailer here, I saw it without having had it ruined by spoilers... that's the way to watch it.

Great poster though!



The only other film that has enticed me to the cinema recently was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which while being entertaining is not even worth comparing. This film got huge amount of press attention because it is Heath Ledgers last film, as if the fact that it was directed by ex-Python Terry Gilliam wasn't enough. Unlike the vast majority of my peers, I have not particularly enjoyed his work outside of Monty Python and although his most recent effort is his best a few scenes fell short of holding my attention. I did enjoy seeing Andrew Garfield playing a large role in a popular film, I liked him in 2007's festival hit Boy A and hopefully his performance in this will get him better recognized. Johnny Depp and Colin Farrel do a good job of filling in for Heath, its difficult to say whether Jude Laws performance was awful or whether I am still holding something against him for Alfie.