Out this week (17/04/09)

I'm unlikely to make it to a cinema this weekend, I promise to update you about it on Sunday's Personal News post (and yes, I'll actually do one this weekend), but if I were I'd definitely be recommending In the Loop, the sort of big screen adaptation of the influential BBC comedy series.

Before I Forget

Fancy a night with depressed old men, not taking their HIV medication and picking up hustlers? No, it's not Broad Street but this new French pic. Jacques Nolot writes, directs and stars.

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Crank 2: High Voltage

Did you like the first Crank, where Jason Statham had to keep his adrenalin pumping and take his shirt off lots in order to stay alive all to jumpy camera work? Then you'll like Crank 2, where he regularly electrocutesd himself and takes hi shirt off to stay alive.

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Good

Cracking play about the drip drip erosion of one mans moral standards during the rise of the Reich. Apparently the film somehow misses what made the play work, and the subject may have been bettered covered in the tangental stories of last years Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

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I Love You, Man

The film that has offically defined "bromance". Metrosexual groom needs to make a new best friend before the wedding day in order to have a Best Man, no doubt learns about himself in the process. Oddly the trailer seems to indicate he has a brother, in which case surely the whole search isn't needed?

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In the Loop

Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison return in this developemnt of "The Thick of It", it's been described as a more sweary "Yes, Minister". This time they're rescuing an out of his depth Tom Hollander from his own uninformed annoucements about anglo-american war efforts.

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Mini Punjab

You couldn't have a week without a Bollywood film whcih I don't even have a plot description, although I do know it's directed by Rimpy Prince, which is a fantastically cool name.

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Not Easily Broken

Christian propaganda, only without the fun of Madea, although it boasts oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson. Opinions regarding quality vary, but I'll give it 3 blobs in case there's a God.

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