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[Whip It.]

Whip It.

I approached this film with a measure of caution as it was picked by the missus. Directed by Drew Barrymore it tells the story of a 17 year old girl's (the gorgeous Ellen Page) efforts to find her own path in the world, hampered by small town life and the expectations of her parents (a football mad father and a pageant obsessed mother). Standard tropes follow, girl meets a boy in band, boy becomes a douche, she has to overcome adversity and win the respect of her parents and peers.

All standard stuff, except...it explores these themes using an all girl roller derby.

Girls in hotpants beating the shit out of each other, Juliette Lewis looking like a spaced out skanky ho, a sleazy compere, good soundtrack and a tactics obsessed coach.

It's a masterpiece.

Only Saw3...you have a load of shite to trawl through yet

Saw the first 2 pretty much as they came out and had this bastard on the hard disc for years as the missus recorded it. Needless to say she has resolved to quit while she is behind and go back to her love of the Twilight and Final Destination series. Here's hoping they make a crossover.

[Saw3]

Saw3
Indescribably awful.

Holy crap, that is a shock.

Archetype Aussie Bloke...Bill Hunter.

This is now on my list...

http://youtu.be/PdnnC43Cotw

At the risk of conspiracy theorist ridicule, I just saw Jake Gyllenhaal CGI'd to fuck in Source Code, so couldn't they have pulled something simililar with beardy?
Or it could be as previously stated that the audio is of him denying all involvement in 9/11 and sayng his mate George set him up.

I'm still smelling a rat with this seized laptop terror threat stuff. Dunno why.

That said I eagerly await the dvd release of Osama's Funniest Home Videos...

Yeah, I'm with you on that. It did make my viewing of Robot (obviously given an English title for the blissfully ignorant Emirates flyer) all the better for having the lovely Aishwarya Rai in it.

Finally got to see Source Code. Very good and clever in places.
I balked a bit at the [spoiler]happy ending[/spoiler] but for the most part damn good.

Loved the Quantum Leapesque mirror scene in the bogs and noted with interest that the main character's dad was played by none other than Scott Bakula.

A sad loss. I present this in tribute...

http://www.video.monkeymag.co.uk/video/iLyROoafYMN4.html

I've just found out that Henry Coper was a dedicated anti-racist campaigner and co-founder of the Anti-Nazi League. I already liked him, but he's gone uip even more in my estimation. I'm surprised I hadn't heard this before

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I never knew that. What a legend!

Mr Vzzbux...

Crappy sequel? A bit harsh there Orlok.

No offence intended there, mate. It's just IMHO. I see it as the sequel nobody wanted or will look fondly upon in the years to come.
Think Matrix Reloaded except with Jessica Lynch and Abu Ghraib.   

Have a couple of mates who have been in both (and one family member who has come home from Iraq) and they couldn't wait til get out of this one. Maybe it is the years, we were all pretty much kids in the first one and apart from Saddam sending up his Scuds every night we were pretty much safe and weren't really coming home to the uncertainty of terror alerts and questions of legality.

That said, can I point out for the record that I read with some interest that they know it is Osama as his dead sister's brain said so via non-independently analysed DNA...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8488004/Osama-Bin-Ladens-body-identified-by-sisters-brain.html

There, that is settled.

Either that or Ashton Kutcher has fucking outdone himself with this episode of Punk'd.

Mr Burdis, you made me spit tea out of my nose. Stop it this instant, do you hear?

Oh, and Tankie...

Yeah, 'cos there's no possibility whatsoever of a 57 year old kidney dialysis patient wearing a suicide vest is there?  Website warriors, don't you just luv 'em!!

I took unarmed to mean exactly that. Unless he was wearing an Allah belt all the time (imagine the horror of late night toilet visits ), he'd have to be quick to put it on in a surprise raid, wouldn't he?
And I'm ex-Navy and served in Gulf War I. You know, the one before the crappy sequel?

The Power of Nightmares is well worth a look.

Regardless of bin Laden's naughtiness (and he was indeed a prick) the brave boys of Seal Team Six, Dicky Marcinko's finest killers, have now shot dead an unarmed 57 year old kidney dialysis patient.
I'm unsure what form of resisting he was engaged in while faced with a team of trained killers armed with the finest American deathware, but it must have been awesome. Maybe he was pretending to be Jean Charles de Menezes when they decided to slot him.

As more details emerge, this gets worse for the US, so they'll need to do some serious PR work. And not a Jessica Lynch style effort, either.

Great Caesar's Ghost!

Jackie Cooper...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-us-canada-13289677