Dr Who. Series 6. Pt. 2 - Let's Kill Hitler

It's a quote thing....Karen GIllan, Matt Smith and Arthur Darvill

From a crop circle, to 1938 Berlin, to a full-size robot, Let's Kill Hitler is the very explosive beginning to a "new" series. In the first scene, we say Amy (Gillan) and Rory (Darvill) drive a Mini Cooper through a cornfield, where they meet The Eleventh Doctor, played extravagantly by Matt Smith. They get a new companion, Mels (played by Nina Toussaint-White), who has a very mysterious secret that we discover early on. The titular character, Hitler spends most of the episode locked in a cupboard. There's also a rather extravagant return of River Song (Alex Kingston), and a very-Sherlock style moment, (Steven Moffat also writes, a BBC series called Sherlock, he must have got confused.) An interesting episode, still as confusing as ever with more questions to be answered. Next week, is an odd-looking episode set in a house where a small boy is scared of the dolls in the cupboard.

Who Rating:

3.5/5

One Day

One day, you'll forget...........Jim Sturgess, and Anne Hathaway.....One Day

Beginning in 1988, One Day shows the two lives, of two lovers. They both start off graduating from Edinburgh University and sleeping together. Instead of keeping this as a boyfriend/girlfriend type of thing, they stay as friends and part ways. Emma, played by dodgy-accented Anne Hathaway goes off and works in a horrible Tex-Mex restaurant in London and starts her life, slowly and steadily while Dexter (Jim Sturgess, who sounds like a young Rupert Everett) starts off as a TV presenter. Her life, is calm, from the beginning onwards and she slowly crawls up the career ladder until she eventually completes the jobs she wants. While Dexter struggles to keep up his emotional-intelligence with his family, played by Ken Stotts and Patricia Clarkson. The script is interesting and every time they change a year, they script drops in little hints of what has happened between then and the previous year. Maybe 15 minutes too long, and a very loved-up chemistry but it's a so-so rom-com that deals with the fragile lives of two completely different people.


3/5

The Inbetweeners Movie

The "lad's" return.......The Inbetweeners Movie

With a gag-a-minute rate, this classic British comedy, shows the four lad's from E4's TV show, go from small to silver screen. It begins with poor Simon (Joe Thomas) being dumped, so they take this opportunity and the summer break, to go to Malia, for an all boys holiday. Except this is "The Inbetweeners," and of course, things don't go smoothly. With a God awful hotel and a unexpected incident at the pool, involving a girl in a wheelchair, and a small 9-year-old Greek boy who can't swim, the boys meet 4 girls, (Laura Haddock, Tamla Kari, Jessica Knappett, and Lydia Rose Bewley.) Laughs are high and this truly is, my film of this year. You'll be begging to go back to the cinema. 


4.5/5 

The Smurfs - 3D

Blue and babyish........The Smurfs

First, created by a Belgium cartoonist 40 years ago, the little magical blue people make it to the big screen. Sadly, my viewing of this feature was interrupted by the screaming of all the scared under-2's. The film starts off with "Narrator Smurf" (all the names are based on their personalities or habits) telling us to imagine a land "with no sadness," already, I was wondering, oh help, me. Hank Azaria comes in as the bumbling oaf of a baddie as Gargamel, the stupid sorcerer who chases the poor little Smurfs into a magic portal, only the main characters of course, that includes the likes of singer Katy Perry, who has several puns, based on her songs, "I kissed a Smurf and I liked it." It's a good summer holidays film, released a wee bit too late for the under 5's but no one older than that. Surprisingly the fact that Perry is in the movie also draws a crowd of teen's but there's no point, she just plays, basically the only girl in the movie. How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris stars as Patrick, a New York guy who works in a cosmetics company and is about to get a promotion. He and his pregnant wife, Jayma Mays of Glee fame accidentally receive the burden of the little blue people and must save them from Gargamel and his cackling cat, Azrael played by voice actor, Frank Welker. Good for the kids, but no one else.

2/5

Super 8 Review

Super 6...........Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard

J.J Abrams has now officially made a name in the film industry. His first film, Mission Impossible III was not his own work, just the continued story of someone else, but his first proper movie, Star Trek was praised by critics everywhere. I too, say it my self and it is a remarkable piece of film-making. I know Star Trek is a never-ending saga but Abrams recreates this into being very watchable material. His next movie, Super 8, is pretty much on the same level as Star Trek except this time he's throwing award-winning director Steven Spielberg. With the success of these movies, Abrams is now making a wonderful career, with a proposed Star Trek sequel.                                                                                                                Set in a town called Lillian in Ohio, it shows Joe Lamb, a 13-year-old boy who has lost his mother in a steel mill accident. Troubled by the loss of his mother, Joe tries to fill the hole by starring in his friend, Charles' (Riley Griffiths) zombie-horror movie that he hopes to enter in a short film festival. The movie goes fine until one night, Charles, Joe and their friends (Zach Mills, Gabriel Basso and Ryan Lee) witness a train derailment. A co-star of Joe, Alice (Elle Fanning), whom Joe hides a crush on is nearly killed in the accident. The following day, the group, discover that the whole thing is an Area 51-style conspiracy because something dangerous was on the derailed train. The six try and uncover what's happening while the town faces panic, dogs going missing, people going missing and odd utilities like microwaves and car engines disappear. This film incorporates some much from such films as Spielberg's E.T (Extra Terrestrial) and The Iron Giant, Joe resembles Henry Thomas's E.T character Elliott and Eli Marienthal's The Iron GIant character, Hogarth Hughes. It is very emotional with a very diverse deep sub-plot featuring a struggle between the Lamb family and Alice's family. I would highly recommend this.


4/5

Bridesmaids Review

A gaggle of girls............Bridesmaids

The antidote to Sex And The City, this not so sugary rom-com, is cruel but warm at heart. It shows, thirty-something Annie, producer and actress, Kristen Wiig, living alone in Milwaukee, feeling depressed about being single, she usually turns to her mum (the late Jill Clayburgh) and her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph) whom she has known since childhood. Sadly, Lillian announces she's getting married, and Annie feels abandoned by her friend, banished to spinsterhood. Faced with being the maid of honor, Annie Googles' what being an honor entails. As Annie is in charge of Lillian's big day, she takes her fellow bridesmaids, to a dodgy alleyway Brazilian restaurant. All the while, Annie is vying with another bridesmaid, Helen Harris III (Rose Byrne) to be Lillian's best friend. This film has very funny moments, including the notable airplane sequence and the bridesmaids dress fitting. It ain't no chick-flick. 


4/5