You know its hard out here for a pimp

Trying to come up with a theme this week and was going to recommend some Korean films to get everyone started but have decided to wait until I have watched a couple I have in my to watch pile. So I thought I'd go with a Hustle & Flow theme and show you all how to Bling Bling your life up or whatever the kids say these days. So why eat a Battenburg when you can eat a Battenburg Gti Turbo , yep check out Pimp my snack. My favourite is the directions to build my life long dream, the easter egg sized creme egg, I just need to find the £50 required for ingredients.

Hustle & Flow

As a Rocky rip off poor boy done good story this isn't too bad, as much as I hate most new Rap these days the songs in here are pretty good, though its slightly hard to take the geeky one from Road Trip seriously as some hardcore rap producer. Thumbs Up

Everything is Illuminated

The first hour of this is fantastic and plays a lot like a Jean Pierre Jeunet flick with its quirky humour, its takes a more serious shift in the second half which turns the style on head. Makes me want to get a premium seeing eye bitch. Thumbs Up

The Inside Man

Spike Lee's new film, its a really good Sting style heist movie. Unlike most modern day thrillers it actually kept you guessing most of the way as to how things were going to work out. Thumbs Up

Ladder 49

Fucking annoying, Fireman gets married and his wife gets scared that he will die then he does, the end. It plays like some weird recruiting video that asks you if you are brave enough to join the fire service then tells you that you will probably die a horrible death if you do. Thumbs in the Middle

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Above average straight to video prequel to the completely underrated Carilto's Way, even Puff Daddy is semi decent in it. There is no budget for action so it concentrates on character and Mario Van Peebles tries to wear every ridiculous Pimp outfit he can find. Thumbs Up

My Favorite Year

In the 100 to see before you die list, but I had seen it before but not for about 15 years and all I could remember was Peter O'Toole staggering around drunk and rightfully so as its the only good part of the flick. Thumbs In the Middle

Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire

Its the last of the books that I read as it pissed me off as it felt like a 600 page prequel for the next book, the film suffers the same problem in that while significant things happen they never feel like the focus of the story. The tournament should be the focus and then the twist at the end would be more shocking but there is little focus on the point of the tournament or what it means and most of the why is Harry in it story line gets dropped from the book. Saying that I still really enjoyed it and think it is the second best in the series and i am enjoying the darker turn the series is taking. Thumbs Up

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Pretty good dark comedy about the true story of an English kid who decides he wants to become the worlds most famous poisoner. Might lead to you never taking a drink or food from someone ever again. Thumbs Up

Magic

Cracking mad ventriloquist flick starring a young Anthony Hopkins, who is almost as freaky looking as the dummy. Thumbs Up

A Bittersweet Life

Korean revenge flick, a medium level gangster makes a bad decision which pisses off his boss who decides to bury him alive, he survives and goes on a killing rampage. Stylish and depraved in parts, great. Thumbs Up

New DVD's

Spy Kids 2 - rounds out my spy kids collection, I want a shot on the juggler

Bad Santa - Going for £4 on amazon Jersery then the fuckers dropped the price to £2 sneaky bastards

History Of Violence - Even commercial Cronenberg is great, would be interesting to see how depraved he could have made it if he really wanted to take the style further

The Rocketeer - cheeeeesy 30's serial style pic

New CD's

Seu Jorge - Life Aquatic Sessions - bunch of Portuguese Bowie covers recorded for the brilliant Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Censorship Craziness

Was watching The Transporter 2 at the weekend and when it was over I remembered that this was advertised as an Uncut version but didn't see anything dreadful that would require cuts, so on to the IMBD for a wee investigation and true enough this was heavily edited and cut in the states to get a PG-13 rating including the digital removal of nipples. WTF the kids can watch people get the shit kicked out of them but if they see a nipple they will be out there gang raping people and doing drugs and shit. Things are just as bad over here, the BBFC has gone on some anti-hanging scene binge in relation to animated material refusing to give them even 18 ratings as there cartoons and kids will get to see them anyway and if they see the cartoons hanging themselves then there will be mass suicides as kids everywhere start hanging themselves.

V for Vendetta

Could never get into the graphic novel as I found it a bit over wordy and preachy, but really enjoyed the film for exactly the same reasons. Some of the imagery here is fantastic, though I feel slightly perverted for getting urges to lock myself into room with Natalie Portman just so I can rub her bald head. Two Thumbs Up

Heat

Really didn't like this the first time I saw it having seen it shortly after L.A. Takedown which is effectively a two hour T.V. movie of the same film and was the version I preferred at the time, both are directed by Michael Mann. Anyway watched it again and really liked it and now I love it. The Street shot out is great in 5.1. Two Thumbs Up

God Told Me To

Bunch of people go crazy in New York claiming God told them to do it, the cop investigating finds out he may have been immaculately conceived then some space ships appear and vaginal openings and things and I really didn't know what the fuck was going on. Thumbs in the Middle

Naked

Another film off my 100 films to see before I die, a guy pissed of the lack of morals in the people around him goes round London pissing people off, was funny at times but found it pointless overall. Thumbs in the Middle

Transporter 2

No digital nipple removal here, completely ridiculous and over the top and great because of it, just leave your brain at home and enjoy. Thumbs Up

The Tesseract

Interweaving stories of people in a Bangkok hotel, bored me silly. Thumbs Down

SPL

This is very average until the last 20 minutes when there is a great Donnie Yen/Jacky Wu knife fight then a good Donnie Yen/Sammo Hung fight that uses a few MMA submissions mixed in with the traditional kung fu that completely saved the flick. Thumbs Up

The Constant Gardener

Intertesting film from the director of the fabulous City Of God, deals with the nastier side of the pharmaceutical business as Ralph Fiennes tracks down why his wife was murdered for investigating the trails of new TB drugs in Africa. Thumbs Up

New DVD's

Nightmare On Elm Street collection - Amazon mis-price £6.50 great

Eight Legged Freaks - underrated mega cheesy giant spider flick

Shaft's Big Score - Who's the black private Dick whose a sex machine with all the chicks

Shaft in Africa - SHAFT, you're damn right

New CD's

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - EP - pretty Good 5 song EP

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones - Their new album not as catchy as Fever to Tell but its growing on me

Institute - Distort Yourself - Ex-Bush front man Gavin "Mr Gwen Stefani" Rossdale new band sounds exactly like a Bush album which is a good thing