Beat It Squid!

So I barely remembered this movie was even made, until now. The trailers looked awful and were run constantly on television for the past year and half, and I still forgot this was even made. Being hungover on a Sunday, I tend to try and give things a chance… I don’t know why I do this to myself. Yeah that’s Jack Black.

OK, well another huge disappointment on a hangover Sunday. This movie started off great, and then turned into a zombie flick and finally I turned it off. FUCK.

Stolen from IMDB: A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. Hmmm… yawn

Everyone knows I love horror flicks, I do, I really do. I tried to enjoy this low budget piece, based on some of Poe’s writing, but man…. the only thing keeping me even slightly interested was the smoking hot chicks in this.

Once again, a round up of silly cat pictures to celebrate the one day of the week the little buggers get to themselves.

I remember the first time I saw this show, I had just got home from a long night of DJing, drinking and general mayhem, sometime around 2001. Decided to load up the old VCR with some new tapes I had just got from my roommate. I watched it for about five minutes and turned it off, no subs, all Japanese, no way it was happening. Fast forward to last week, the good ‘ol discount used book store had the complete box set for $11, not being one to excessively complain and having a lot of time on my hands I thought I would give it another shot. The chick at the counter assured me there was an English language track and subs, so why the hell not?

So, I normally watch each film twice, unless they are truly horrible, so I can be slightly more objective with my rantings. This is one film, I didn’t need to. This little gem, that I had never heard of before my trip to the movie store earlier, really spoke to me. I’m not much for Cinema UK, but recently that seems to be the only place where a decent film seems to be coming from, so I gave it a shot. I am not disappoint. Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, we have a coming of age tale, that not only surprises, but it does it so subtly you could have swore you predicted every second of it. Such a treat. To top it off, because of their other works, such as The Office, Extras and The Invention Of Lying (Gervais only), I suspected a comedy. Instead I was drawn into the 1970’s, into a small town called cemetery junction….

Did you ever wish they remade Beverly Hills Cop or Another 48 hours, only this time, they were actually funny, and didn’t totally suck royal balls?