Watched a film tonight - Juno. Very good if a bit too nicey nice in a kooky kind of way, good soundtrack, great acting and writing (all that hip teen talk (talk to the hand, girlfriend).
Anywhoo, (there i go again) the point of this post is to alert you people to Screenclick, an online film rental service i should have joined ages ago but have been too old and non-technical.
Pay your money, pick films, they arrive at door, return it and get your next pick. No more crap video stores. No more weird bearded assistants hoping to be Tarantino - sorry, only one in a generation.
Simple. And. Perfect.
Which actually leads me, Barry Norman like, on to a bit about Tarantino. Don't know if anyone else felt like this but when he arrived into the early 90s with that brilliant writing and jumped around narrative it completely changed my attitude to cinema, which was still in the star wars 70s, mainly because the 80s were so crap for movies. (remember Back to the Future, Top Gun). It was now about the words written as much as about what the camera showed you, very much like the Coen brothers around the same time. More anon.
I leave you with a band which, embarrassingly, my uncle-in-law discovered. In the post arrived this:
Bleedin Magic.
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Hey Eugene, great stuff, movie reviews. I was thinking about doing that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, did the postal DVD club. Advantages: great selection of movies (old and new) and tv series. Disadvantages: postal deliveries mean you don't always have the DVDs when you want them.
Club I was with actually changed from postal system to Intenet Downloads. But good move all the same. You'll be giving us all sorts of weird and wonderful reviews form now on.
Hello Eugene, Welcome to the bloggosphire.
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