Cupid Stunt

No Country For Old Men:

Javier Bardem – scary as fuck. Fantastic movie, but I agree with lette, the good old sense of “what the hell…. that’s it?” at the end. I suppose it’s the modern day version of the cowboys riding away into the sunset or something. Whatever, it’s bound to pick up a few gongs in a few weeks time.

Juno:

The year’s token indie flick come good. This years ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ if you will. A really good movie with some really funny moments and great characters. And of course there’s Ellen Page, who can do no wrong.

Once:

I finally got around to seeing this one. I am 11000 miles from home after all. I can’t stand Glen Hansard as much as the next person but what a nice movie! Wouldn’t it be great if the ginger bollix walked away with an Oscar next month. No, it wouldn’t.

Here’s a photo of Glen taking a shit on stage

All the cool kids make link posts so I’m gonna have a go. Not crunchy, fluffy, manky or sweaty. Just linky.

Jeremy Beadle RIP. Beadle’s About was essential part of tv viewing in our house every week. Niall has posted a tribute to Beadle in his own thoughtful sensitive way.

Trinity has got a fluffy badge and she’s not gonna boast about it.

Speaking of boasters, One For The Road is quite modest about his blog awards nomination. Nice gif too

and finally… Roy seems to have bumped in to Grandad on his nightly rounds

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James Cameron is in Wellington at the moment filming his current project, 3D Sci-fi epic Avatar. I live quite close to Stone St Studios, where live action filming is currently happening. This is also where Lord Of The Rings and King Kong were made. Anyway here’s a photo I took tonight from my house. Bear in mind the green screen you can see is four shipping containers high. It’s huge. The thing on the left hand crane looks like a gigantic light. I was right beside it earlier but didn’t have my camera with me, might get a chance tomorrow.

The writer of one of Ireland’s top blogs and the best music blog on the planet, nialler9, has revealed the latest project he is involved in. In fact it’s more then a project, it’s a fully fledged brand new music magazine for Ireland. Go check out www.state.ie. As well as being a bone fide monthly magazine what you buy in the shops, State has a fully functional website which carries interviews, reviews and such - which, unlike a certain other Irish ‘music’ publication , is all free. State’s ‘mission statement’ if you will is “to produce an intelligent monthly music magazine with no genre boundaries, interesting, intelligent writing which would embrace the blogosphere as one of its primary goals.” Everything that other music mag gave up on years ago.

Best of luck to State, it’s something the Irish music scene needs, and hopefully will be a big success. When you look at the people behind it, you think it can only be.

On a side note, the photo of Hot Chip on the website homepage has thrown up something interesting… has Jake Stevens joined the band?

Sometimes the media pisses me off. But sometimes the media really really really pisses me off.

 ‘Heath Ledger found dead, naked and with sleeping pills nearby’.

Bloody sensationalism. Just say, as is quite probable, Heath Ledger went to bed as normal last night. Like a hell of a lot of people, maybe he sleeps naked. Lots of people have sleeping pills in their room, nearby, prescription, very normal. His parents say he was suffering from pneumonia, who’s to say that wasn’t a factor in his death. No.

Naked and drugged up sells newspapers, so what does the truth matter? A truth which, at the moment, nobody can tell.

RIP Heath Ledger, a great talent.

As we can see from this photo, taken from last week’s Limerick Post newspaper, Doug Howlett’s Munster team mates are doing their best to make sure he, *cough*, ‘fits right in’.

It’s a movie that’s got everything. Quite a bit of humor, lots of suspense, some drama, some quite freaky zombie types, quite a bit of action, great CGI and a masterful performance by Will Smith.

Why then does it leave the audience feeling a bit empty when leaving the cinema? I thought the end of the movie didn’t do the rest of it any justice. It all seemed very anti-climactic and didn’t fit with the rest of it. I heard somewhere they had a different ending but changed it after test audience reaction. I dunno.

A very enjoyable movie though. I’d give it a 6.5/10