April 2011 - Nicholas Cage's hair & Source Code

So, what have I been watching this month? Too much as usual. Cinema is an addiction for me; I have been going to the cinema at least twice a week since Saving Private Ryan (that’s 1998 in your years). In all those years i have only walked out of one film (Windtalkers – a terrible Vietnam film starring Nicolas Cage). Nicolas Cage is like a certain nursery rhyme character; when he is good he is very very good, but when he is bad he is awful! When deciding to see a new Nic Cage film at the cinema I use the toupee rule to decide whether its going to be good or not. Generally speaking the films where he wears a wig are awful, the ones where he has his own hair (what’s left of it) are good.

Anyway, enough about Nicholas Cage. The best film out at the moment is ‘Source Code’, a sci-fi action thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal (when did movie stars stop using cool sounding, made up stage names?). I knew that this would be a great film because the Director is Duncan Jones, who directed Moon, one of the most original sci-fi films in ages. Source Code is about a former US Army helicopter pilot who finds himself in the mind of a person abut to die in a train bombing. Jake Gyllenhaal has to keep reliving the last 8 minutes of the man's life until he can work out who blew up the train. It's really good, and it's still out at the cinema so I recommend that you go see it!

This month I have also seen Scream 4 and Limitless. I wouldn't really recommend either, in fact I could probably write 10,000 words about how stupid Limitless was! It doesn't look like there are many good films coming out in the next few weeks, although there's Thor which I was looking forward to until I found out it was in 3D (I've decided that 3D films are rubbish). However in May both Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver will be rereleased in cinemas, and thank god NOT in 3D!