I wasn't that taken with District 9. Was entertaining for first half but pretty mediocre/boring for second half. Don't know what all the furore was over.
Clooney can be terrific but I can only handle one of his films per year as he acts the exact same in every film and if I see that tilt of the head, the smirk and the simultaneous exhale followed by "Hmm" too often I cry.
Off to see Captain Phillips on Sunday. Very much looking forward to it. I rate Hanks. I know it will be well acted, well crafted by Greengrass, probably a bit of unwelcome sentimentality but I anticipate the good outweighing the bad . Gravity looks cracking. I am even prepared to put aside my...