At home, I watched Little Miss Sunshine, which I thought was pretty interesting. It follows a family of mis-fits as they travel 700 miles to let their daughter compete in a child beauty pagent. Starring Steve Carrell as a convincingly suicidal gay man. The family is also made up of a failure fearing Dad, a stressed out mother, a mute Nietzche Reading teenager and a care-free, cocaine addicted Grandad. It wasn't really the funniest comedy of the year as the box describes but it was a good heart warming and occasionally suprising, dysfunctional family drama. 8/10
in the theatre I last watched The Men Who Stare At Goats. Starring George Clooney and Ewan Mcgregor as a supposed ex psychic warrior and a journalist respectively. The plot is divulged gradually using flasbacks to bring us up to date with current events. It was a wacky, off-beat comedy with perhaps one too many starwars jokes. Although this is off-set by the fact most of them are said by Mcgregor, who of course starred in the intergalactic saga. The pacing was reasonable, the plot non-sensical, the supporting cast of Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Robert Patrick were terriffic. Watch out for the scene where Kevin Spacey gives a fellow marine LSD to study it's effects, it reminisces Full Metal Jacket at it's surreal best. 7/10