Tom Hanks & Dan Ackroyd...Rapping!

When I was younger, Dragnet was my favourite film...but better still is the song that ends the film! Tom Hanks, two-time Oscar winner rapping with his bud Dan Ackroyd! If only film stars did the same these days...

Russell Crowe singing his own ascent into heaven at the end of Gladiator

Leo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet power-ballading their way through Titanic

Or what about Christian Bale doing a heavy metal number during the Terminator Salvation credits!!

Yeah, lets see more of this...

GET HAMMERED!

Stop! Hammer time! Reckon plenty of "hammer" type puns have been used in the marketing of Thor. Watched it this afternoon and have to say, when I heard about Thor, my instant reaction was "I'll never watch that in a million years!"

But after reading a few reviews, it intrigued me with stories of father/son relationships, references to Shakespeare and Anthony Hopkins playing a God so I thought "Why not?"

Plus Natalie Portman is in it!

Even though it runs out of steam by the end, its actually quite a funny film when Thor is on Earth - the scene in the diner is brilliant when he wants another cup of coffee. Plus it sets up the whole Avengers thing with references to The Hulk, IronMan and a cameo by Hawkeye and a post-credit scene with Sammy Jay. With all these teasers basically each film setting up the ultimate Avengers film, Jess Wheldon certainly has a massive task not letting anyone down!!

Anyway, here's my quick review of Thor:

Natalie Portman's in it! But sadly, there's no getting it on with a hot girl like Black Swan.

Oh and Anthony Hopkins hams it up, Thor throws a hammer about a few times, Kenneth does his best LOTR impression with sweeping shots and massive battles and the Avengers film will be huuuuuuuge!

That is all...

The Hangover 2 - Official Trailer (HD)

Replaces a baby with a monkey, stew's missing tooth for a tattoo and vegas for bangkok but still looks funny as fcuk!

Cool Swannings

I saw Black Swan the other day. I watched it in the O2 Arena, which is an eerie place, especially if there's a fun fair going on...with no-one on the rides. The bumper cars looked sad, the "daredevil" ride kept whizzing up and down, right to left with not one single person on it, yet the cranky speaker system would elicit a shriek and a howl from its soundbite archive.

It was a Friday night and I was sitting outside Las Iguanas nursing a pint and waiting for my cousin and her mate to show up. Usually by this time on a Friday night, I'd be necking my 8th pint and running down Leicester Square with my trousers around my ankles but this was going to be a civilised Friday night as I was really looking forward to watching Black Swan. This is not my usual type of film...I'm more into action, explosions, car chases and gratuitous shots of girls in bikinis (step forward every Michael Bay film), but beneath this facade of Bayhem I still love those slightly leftfield films. For every "Bad Boys 2" there's a "La Haine". For every "Die Hard" there's an "Audition". There's also directors and their films that I'm drawn too - Sergio Leone and his Dollars Trilogy, David Fincher with his films about the deconstruction of men (Se7en, The Game and Fight Club) and of course Darren Aronofsky.

I still remember the first time I watched Requiem For A Dream (it was in Leicester at The Phoenix Cinema) and I was hooked. Hooked from the very first split-screen moment - I had never seen editing, camerawork and performances so perfectly balanced and constructed as in Requiem. Since then loads of other film have used splitscreens as creatively as possible but Requiem is the yardstick. It wasn't even that, the film is such a breathless piece of work from start to finish it grips like a vice and never lets go. Watching Requiem made me go back to his first film, Pi, which is a good film but has that rough around the edges, student look which is part of its demented charm. I never really got into The Fountain. I remember being excited about Brad Pitt working with Aronofsky, but then Brad dropped out and the film had its budgets cut - who knows what THAT film would have been like. The Wrestler is heart-breaking...Mickey Rouke was robbed! One of the best performances ever of a guy trying to re-capture his past glory. You can almost smell the sweat, blood and tears of the lockrooms...which leads us to Black Swan. Aronofsky has always had a knack of getting performances out of actors who you'd think didn't have it in them. Watch Marlon Wayans performance in Requiem...thats right Marlon "Scary Movie cuz!" Wayans actually acting is earth-shattering. Ellen Burstyn's got Oscar nominated, Mickey got oscar nominated, Natalie Portman got oscar nominated - ya starting to see a pattern? You want Golden Globes and trophies to fill that mantelpiece, get your agent on the blower to Darren Aronofsky and start preparing that winning speech.

So as you can tell, I was pretty excited about Black Swan. Not because it was suppose to be grand operatic melodramatic, psychosomatic horror of the highest order, it apparently had a scene where Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis got it on!

So here's my review of Black Swan:

Natalie and Mila get it on! Its awesome!

And here's a slightly extended review of Black Swan:

A completely psycho, bonkers film of a woman on the edge pushed to the very limit. Great camerawork. Natalie should win an Oscar.

Use The Force Luke...Its awesome!

I was watching Star Wars the other day and when Alec Guinness tells Luke to use The Force, I thought wouldn't be it great if he told him what he really thought and it got me thinking - imagine if you could change dialogue from films just for a laugh. Below are lines of dialogue which didn't quite make the final cut...

Goodfellas - "As far back as I can remember...I always wanted to be a brickie."

Mean Streets - "Wow! The jukebox in here plays all the classic Rolling Stone tunes!"

Casino - "Wow! The jukebox in here plays all the classic tunes from the past 30 years!"

Death Proof - "Wow! The jukebox in here plays all the classic Scorsese tunes!"

Star Wars : A New Hope - "I've been waiting for you Obi-Wan...when you left, we never did finish off that game of Checkers."

Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back - "You killed my father!...No wait...I can guess what you're gonna say next!"

Star Wars : The Return of the Jedi - "If you ever get caught short in the woods, these Ewoks make perfect toilet paper!"

The Terminator - "I'll be back...just got to put some money in the meter."

Terminator 2 - "I'll be back...ate a dodgy burrito at that mexican hide-out"

Running Man - "I'll be back...Take Me Out is after this and I forgot to Sky Plus it"

Forrest Gump - "Life isn't really like a box of chocolates. Look! The label tells you what you gonna get!"

The Usual Suspects - "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was a bunny out of hat...Classic!"

Reservoir Dogs - "Are you gonna bark all day little doggy...or are you gonna keep licking your own balls?"

Pulp Fiction - "When I got back from Amsterdam, I got this suit off my cousin Vic! Snazzy ain't it?! Bit of blood on it though..."

Jackie Brown - "Don't you just love a crime story thats linear and doesn't keep criss-crossing in time?!"

Titanic - "What does a fella have to do to get some ice with his brandy?"

Avatar - "Very funny guys! Who left that smurf-turd in my wheelchair?"

That's it for now...

So I was walking down the street...

...and then I discovered what road I was on...

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Having seen over the weekend that Google have created a new application where you can shoot and place your own adverts on national TV (I think the slot between 2am and 3am on ITV1 during NightWatch is only £100 - Result!) I thought I should really get to grips with its earliest innovations - the Blog. Like the cross between Facebook's status update and Tweeting but with added pics and longer than 140 "characters", stay tuned as I begin to dismiss all things private and start randomly blurting things I want the worldwide web to know about! Whether its my hellish trip to work on the Central Line or my ongoing quest to write the perfect screenplay, its all going off on this blog!