Review: Zack & Miri

Since the millennium Kevin Smith's output has taken a downturn and he's been overtaken by the Apatow films in offering every(stoned)man laughs.

Still, Zack & Miri improves on Clerks II with the characters played by Craig Robinson and Justin Long offering most of the laughs - though Mewes description of the 'double rudder' is worth the price of admission on its own.

Totally Wrong?

Looking at this Total Film article posted here I reckon they are at least a year and a half late with their claim of the death of the video store.

Surely when the 2nd largest chain in the UK (Choices) went under almost overnight last August, well before anyone had ever heard of a credit crunch - was the time for the death knell to be rang and signalled the time to start writing the obituaries for an industry ravaged by the profligacy of cheap DVDs available elsewhere, both legal and illegally.

For all the blame laid on piracy, a lot of the video shop's woes come from the likes of Tesco and the high street now offering a range of cheap DVDs that offered better value and greater convenience for the Luddite looking to spend a few quid for a night in or an easy way to shut the kids up. The loss of these customers probably hit just as hard as the rise of torrents, but were give half the attention with all eyes on futile attempts to cut out piracy.

Review: High School Musical 3

Not as good as the other two films as third time out the format finally starts to feel a bit tired and you feel like you've seen it all before - a feeling not helped by the doppelgänger characters being eased in for the inevitable HSM4,resulting in many scenes looking like weird cloning experiments gone wrong.

On that subject, I get that Rocket man is the new Troy, Tiara is the new Sharpay - but I don't get why the new Chad is a midget?

This Is Nice, But...

We all know a Joker one would be even cooler.