300: Rise of the Empire in cinema. Dont even know if i like it or not and...and still dont know, whether i think Eva Green is hot or not. But i guess she is.

Day before that i torrented and watched The Essence of Llewyn Davis or whatever it was called, from Coen bros. It was ok and full of nice music. Not really my kind of movie, though.

Finally, Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The main character is pretty much me, an ineffectual dreamer.

The Monument Men. Excellent movie. 

Shadow People. Horror flic using fake 'real' documentary style and dramatization of that. 2 out of five stars only because I finished it in 3 sittings. Its fairly bad.

Also about 1/3 of the way through Russian Ark. A real documentary shot all in one take through a big russian museum(forget which). Amazing. There are historical fictional characters from each era experienced as the camera goes through the museum. The narrator is invisible. One person  can see him and they discuss the russian history and the art(french as well as others) in the museum. Its not done in a overly dramatic way, just a way to make the history more relatable to the viewer.

Last one I saw......Spooks Run Wild with Bela Lugosi and the Bowery Boys. Classic.

Forced the wife to go see the new 300 movie.  It was pretty terrible, it will be years before I get to pick another movie for us to go to.

But the trailers looked so good!

Just watched The Wolf of Wall Street - Very Scorsese-esque (language and debauch, etc.) but DiCaprio was fantastic, as per usual!

Yeah, Hemlock Grove was a bit gory, but I saw past that to follow the storyline and plot.  There is a season 2 due to be aired in the next few weeks, and I shall be glued to it just as I was with the 1st.  Besides, it's all fantasy and never likely to happen, so it isn't quite as shocking.  What I do find disturbing and refuse to watch is movies with nut-jobs running around with chainsaws, etc.  Stuff like that does happen and is too close to reality to be entertainment, in my book.

I just watched the girl with the dragon tattoo. Good flick! Even though I saw it a few times already. What she does to the case worker I call poetic justice.

that's good... that will be my next movie...  

There was a competition out here for the release of The Monument Men...  25 words.. why you would want to go to Rome... my son got a phone call yesterday afternoon to say he'd won the major prize...

• Return flights to Rome
• accommodation at a 4+ star hotel in Rome
• Private transfers between the hotel and the airport.
• A private 3 hour tour of the Vatican City.
• Priority entry into one of the most famous art museums in Italy.
• £200 in spending money.
• Access to a 24/7 traveller support phone line.

nice to know someone win's these things....