Loved this film – it is so playful and so imaginatively executed that you can forgive its rather insubstantial story line. Having said that though, can any comedy film that considers arms dealing, extraordinary rendition, corporate greed AND feature a great big electro-magnet ever be called insubstantial? If you’re a fan of Jeunet’s other films you’ll feel right at home in this one, if you’ve never seen any of his films, get Delicatessen and then watch this one – saturated colours, moody Parisian landscapes and a surreal, cartoon edge make this a good way to spend a couple of hours of your life…

Godawful, sexist bilge where all the boys are in bands and girls just moon around hoping the boys will look at them while they make self lacerating analyses of their own appearance. What is this 1952???? Probably written by a 45 year old hack divorcee who hasn’t been near a teenager in 20 years. One of the worst films I’ve ever seen…we went through the 80s for this?!

This captures London living so well – really naturalistic acting and an excellent story. It’s also very funny in places.

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Where have all the bees gone????

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An absolutely gorgeous documentary about the flamingoes of Lake Natron in Tanzania. Each shot is like a mini oil painting, the flamingo chicks are to die for, the music is by Cinematic Orchestra and voiceover by Mariella Frostrup which adds up to a really contemplative atmosphere. It’s a Disneynature film but don’t let that put you off – this is class!

I am LOVING this album at the moment – it’s noodley, electronic meandering, distortion drifty nomadic music that seeps into your brain and makes it turn into melty orange processed cheese. Beautiful.

OMG! How cool is this film? One long 70s car chase with two of the coolest anti-heroes ever committed to celluloid. I loves it Olive, I loves it!

I can’t decide if I liked this film or not – it comes with high theory flooding out of every film still, quoting 70s sexploitation flicks, TV ads and Warholesque underground cinema in a hyper-real technicolor whirl. Yet, I’m not sure if it’s actually enjoyable to watch – it looks good and is set designed to within an inch of its life. However, for all its cleverness and gender subversion, it does come across as a badly acted TV movie about the loss of innocence.Once you get into it though, and learn to endure the stilted script and wooden delivery, it’s kind of appealing. I certainly haven’t seen anything like it since the crazy heyday of Thundercrack at the Scala in London back in the 80s.

…this wasn’t very good at all. Over simplistic and quite dull, it turned me off completely. AND I’m an archetypal tree-hugging hippy so it should have been preaching to the converted. :-(