First of all I am not a football fan. By football I mean Soccer, but I am going to call it Football despite what it is called in other places. Anyway this is probably one of the best sports films I have seen ever. Michael Sheen is fantastic as the legendary english manager Brian Clough. He becomes him in this more so than most actors probably would have, I cant think of anyone who could have done better. Timothy Spall, who should be playing Watson in the new Sherlock Holmes film instead of Jude Law, plays his friend and assistant Peter Taylor. I am not totally sure how historically accurate this film is, but I found it facinating. Seeing Brian take a small team and make them big is heartwarming, and seeing him get crushed by the team he is trying to manage is sad. Brian is not a great person though, his arrogance is well known and the film shows this quite well. All the other performances are spot on, there really isn't any major problem I can think of with this film.

If you want to see one of the best Football films ever I highly recommend it. I also recommend the recent Ken Loach film Looking for eric as another great football film. This film got me interested in sports again. More so than I have been in years. I used to play football as a kid growing up near Croydon in London. Those were some of the best times of the my life. Seeing this brings back why I used to love football and sports in general. I may not get back into it, but I can now fully appreciate why Football is a beautiful and occasionaly dirty sport. But thats what life is about, the glory and the defeat. This film shows both the rise and fall of Brian Slough and I am glad it shows all parts of him. If it just showed how great he was rather than showing his bad side the film would be much worse. But we are after all defined by our flaws, sometimes more so than any other part of us. This is the first time i have been facinated by a sports film and for that I applaud it.

Overall I give it a 9.5 out of 10.

I may dislike his films, but thanks to him mentioning the film PUNISHMENT PARK in an interview I discovered the Director Peter Watkins. He has become a favorite of mine now, and all thanks to a director I think is mostly crap:P anyway I recommend anyone tries to find some Peter Watkins films, they are all mostly fantastic.

THe film of the week this time is THE TENANT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwTwJreDSDI&feature=related

Sorry about the bad sound quality, and the scene wont make sense out of context but its the best I could find without spoiling the film much. What with the Roman Polanski controversy going on I decided to rewatch this film and it is just as fantastic as I remembered, if not more so. That may just be because my jerk friend broke my Chinatown disk while I was watching it because he was apparently "Protesting" Roman Polanski and I wanted to find another film of his to enjoy partly to piss him off again. What an idiot. Anyway, this is one of the best psychological horror films ever, much better imo than The Shining. I also recommend you read the book by Roland Topor.

I found out that Stephen King lets anyone make a film out of his short stories for 1$. His site lists the ones left that can be made. So I have decided to make one, though I'm not sure which because of my budget but I will update when I have more info:D

The band of the week this time is PORTUGAL THE MAN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63f4RGOl6DU

This is from their new album The Satanic Satanist. Their sound changes from album to album, and they are usually pretty consistant with their quality. Check out their album Censored Colours if you want to hear their best though.

I was a bit hesitant to see this since it sounded a bit generic, but thankfully I was proven wrong. Well mostly. Zombieland is a very fun and gory film, and Woody Harrleson is as awesome as expected. I liked Jessie Seisenberg more than I expected. I wouldn't call him a good actor yet, but he is more interesting than Michael Cera. Abigial Breslin was pretty good and so was Emma Stone. Their characters though were not great. Its not really a fault, but the characters in this film are pretty dull aside from Woody Harrleson, and the awesome cameo character who I will not spoil. Maybe it was the hype, but I found this film pretty underwhelming. It was fun sure, but it also made me think how little you can really do with zombies.

So far in the last decade zombies can either run..or walk. They are not are not that interesting to watch anymore for me. I can still enjoy them, heck I enjoyed this one, but overall this film was not much different from a B movie. That is not bad, I love B movies, but I think it is getting a bit too much credit. Aside from the actors, and the budget, there is not much about this film that seperates it from other zombie films. It is very fun and thrilling, but I didnt get much of a sense of danger for most of it. The kills were fun to watch but I knew who was going to live. The zombies looked good, but in the end I felt this was a funny action comedy zombie film, nothing more and nothing less. The only really stand out hilarious moment was the cameo. The rest was what I expected from a zombie film. It was still good and I recommend it, but now I have seen this film I am taking a break from zombies. I wasn't expecting anything more than a zombie action comedy so in that respect the film did not disappoint. However, I did not find it as funny or good as Shaun of the dead. To me the better zombie comedies this year were Pontypool, and Dead Snow. Also Return of the living dead, and Braindead are still my overall favorite zombie comedies. This is still pretty good though.

Overall I give it a 7 out of 10.

The Invention of lying is a film with Ricky Gervais about a man who can lie in a world where nobody does. First of all, don't expect a constant comedy here. Gervais wrote and directed this film, and he tends to throw in drama near the end. Heck most of his big projects like The Office, and Extras have an theme of tragedy mixed with the comedy and this one if no different. Some people may complain, and have already from what I know, that the film is pro athiest and anti christian. Well it isn't pro religion in the slightest thats for sure, but to complain that it is anti religion is a bit silly. Sure the film is very judgemental andbiased when it comes to religion, gervais pretty much becomes Jesus later on. I liked this though, probably because i like comedy that offends a lot of people. Gervais isn't a man who wants to be a god, he just wants to be happy and to be respected in life. He is not that different than David Brent from the Office, or Andy Millman from Extras.

All his characters are losers who want to get some kind of respect, and when it comes down to it this is a simple film about a man who just wants love from someone. It may not be hilarious, but when it comes to heart, Gervais always nails that fine mix of comedy and tragedy. People believe what he says and he becomes a sort of jesus, but they still think he is a loser.. Even the girl he loves only see's what is on the outside. He wants her to love him so he does drastic things that he think help people but they just bring a different kind of harm. The lying thing does get stretched a bit, but overall I really enjoyed this film and I respect Gervais for doing something different. He is also a very good actor, he does an emotional scene in this film that is one of the saddest and most convincing I have seen for a while.

Overll I give it an 8 out of 10.

This score may change, I think this is a film I need to see more than once since I missed a bit when my friend kept talking to me.

The Thing, and Prince of Darkness. Both were great, though I have seen the thing many times before. First time seeing Prince of darkness though and though it was weird seeing ALice Cooper playing a pale homeless guy who doesn't speak, it was still a good weird horror film. On October the 10th I am going to an all night horror film marathon from 7: 30 PM to 7:30 AM. Only 20$ too. Should be fun, one of the films playing is Dog Soldiers. Seeing the thing on the big screen was amazing, those effects still look fantastic, so gruesome. Also on Halloween the theater is playing a triple feature of Night of the demons, Demons, and Demons 2. All for just 10$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxsfvAScMeI

This is a cover of New Order's song True Faith. Its a weird slow version of the song by the norwegian band Flunk. I like it personally, but some people probably wont.

The film of the week this time is BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfUwvmRmMtw

This is one of Martin Scorsese's most underrated films. Its like Taxi driver but with a paramedic instead of a taxi driver. Nicholas Cage is fantastic in it, one of his best films by far. John Goodman has a great role in it too, and so does Ving Rhames.