Hot Fuzz has to be the funniest film I’ve seen all year, and perhaps longer. I really can’t recommend this enough, if you liked Shaun of the Dead, then you’ll love this too, I was a little worried that perhaps after such a fantastic film, they would have trouble matching it, but they do wonders with their take on cop films.

Go and see it, right now.

I was lucky enough to be at a wine masterclass last night which among the very fine collections of wines on offer was the Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1995. I say lucky because under normal circumstances this isn’t a wine you’d normally pick up, given that the per bottle price is around £135 and upwards.

Now, I no doubt give the impression that I can be a bit of a wine-geek from time to time, and to a degree thats true – but I’m a fairly casual wine-geek, and most of the finer details are still lost on me. But, that said tasting this wine along side a selection of 9 other Australian Shiraz gave a very good feel for how it tastes along side it’s “peers”.

Was it good? Yes, with out a doubt it was a very nice glass of wine. Was it worth 10 times some of the wines at the lower price bracket we were tasting, well, thats hard to say. For me, given there is no way I can afford to spend that kind of money on a bottle of wine, no, I don’t feel that it’s worth considering. (Where as in contrast there are bottles in the region of £20 to £30 that I feel are worth spending that extra bit on a special occasion)

Still, a good bottle to drink, and I can say that I have tried it, so as an experience it was very interesting.

Okay, so I’m a -closet-huge Meat Loaf fan, so when I opened Napster on Monday morning to find that they had “Bat Out Of Hell III” on pre release a week before the real world version hits the shelves I was over the moon.

It’s got everything you’d expect, epic tracks, loud angsty emotions, and lots and lots of heavy guitar and sweeping rock keyboards. There are a couple of tracks on the album that didn’t grab me right away, though are growing on me now, but for the vast majority of it, it’s an amazing album that sits well with the other two.

I was really impressed with this album, I liked the first offering from the Killers, but didn’t really give it much repeat listening, though the more well known tracks appear regularly on nights out in clubs and always go down well there.

But this album has much more operatic rock feel to it, loud tunes with interesting lyrics and hooks that make it feel like it really has something to say.

Well worth listening to for anyone who likes the Killers, or groups such as Muse.

I’ve never seen Falafels out in the real world, only during festivals where they become a main component of my diet, which is odd in it’s self since there isn’t any meat in them – thats how good they are.

So when I saw that Tesco had some sitting in the vegi food section, I wasn’t really hoping for much from them but gave them a go last night, along with some pita breads, salad, dips and the like. And I was more then impressed, they actually tasted really good!

Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure takes you on one man’s journey around the world in search of the Googlewhack’s he finds.

I’ve seen it twice now, and each time I’m in tears with laughing, now you’re obviously an internet user, and use google, perhaps even know what a googlewhack is, and as such, you’re primed to enjoy this shining example of standup comedy at it’s best.

It took me a long time from hearing about Baraka to the time I actually got to see it, I had never heard of it before but was told that it was an amazing film with highly emotive and changed music that would change me life.

That’s a lot to live up to, but it’s the kind of thing I’d buy into, so I picked up the DVD and then for about 5 months I didn’t watch it, waiting from the right time and frame of mind, which tuned out to be settled down with a couple close friends and some mildly mind altering substances in a hill top cottage deep in Wales.

I wasn’t ready for just how moving the film was, while it starts of with some scenes of incredible beauty form across the world, several of which seem to be the ones used in National Geographic Channel adverts on TV, but then moving on to show Man’s impact on the world, with no actual spoken narrative over the chants and noise of the settings the whole film is driven by the soundtrack produced by “Dead Can Dance” and others.

You do need to be in the right frame of mind for this, and in many ways it’s not so much a film as a piece of audio and visual art that displays a moving image of the earth and it’s inhabitants. But I do feel it’s one of those films everyone should see at least once at some point in their lives, so long as you’re prepared to settle down and take in what it shows you.

This film from start to finish had me in stitches, the plot it’s self isn’t anything too amazing, dealing with jilted lovers and affairs of the heart in a typical suburban setting.

And it all starts of fairly normal, until James Gandolfini steps outside and steps into a song and dance routine. It turns out that Romance and Cigarettes is very much a “Karaoke Musical” every so often people just pick up and sing along to the background music in semi-imagined sequences. Christopher Walken stealing some of the best moments with his story of woe echoed though a rendition of “Delilah” in one of his oddest roles to date.

On paper, it sounds like it wouldn’t work, but sitting down to watch it I was instantly convinced and it’s one of the best films I’ve seen for a long time not only delivering a solid and enjoyable film, but something that is truly something different.