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The Dark Knight came out last week, and thanks to Orange Wednesday’s and Vouchers from Vue Cinema,it is once again cheaper to go to Cardiff to watch a good film in a proper cinema rather then the (in my opinion) crappy and over crowded, local Showcase cinema.

Christian Bale once more don’s the outfit and puts on a gruff voice in a role that certainly suits him, more so then any previous portrayor of this tortured soul, even Keaton. You really get a sense that Bale felt the part, that he was more comfortable as Batman then Wayne.

Although Heath Ledger does a sterling job as the Joker, I wouldn’t put it down as an oscar award winning performance. And if he wins an Oscar just because he killed himself then I think its sending the wrong signal. I don’t deny that one day he might well of won an oscar, but to to be awarded one out for some sentimental reasons even though he stupidly OD’d is wrong. Don’t get me wrong though, Heath Ledger did do a marvelous job portraying a psychotic lunatic, on  par with Nicholson.

The  film is a worthy one for anyone to go see, Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two Face and Michael Caine as Alfred are both superb. The story goes on for a while, but at no point did I think it was too long, altough I did think it could have ended 30 mins earlier, I’m really glad it didn’t.

The fact that nothing in the film was overdone, as in the last (post Keaton) attempt to give us the Batman story on the big screen, and that they haven’t blatantly marketed it to the hilt or doctored the story to pull in toy or other merchandise revenue, just makes it so much better.

Dark Knight really outshines Begins, and I urge you to see it. The effects are great, the music is great, the acting is awesome. Its going to be tough to beat this.

Went to the Vue cinema in Cardiff last night to see the new Pixar film Wall-E. I’ll try not to give anything away here…

Set in the future, Earth has been abandoned by its inhabitants because of excessive waste. Left behind were loads of robots designed with one task, to clean up the mess until it was suitable for habitation again.

Neatly compacting the rubbish into box’s and stacking them into towers ready for some other unknown process, the robots fall by the wayside leaving our hero of the film WALL-E alone, relentlessly continuing.

Artificial intelligence seems to have taken over as Wall-E’s self repairs keep him ticking over. He continues his job until the arrival of EVA, a more futuristic model which must have been modeled by Apple that instigates an instant attraction for Wall-E. He’s watched some old films and learns how to hold hands.

Pixar have out-done themselves again with an incedibly detailed animation that at time will have you believing it must be real objects. The storyline,although basic, is compelling and easy to be drawn into. The kids will love it and be damanding Wall-E toys for upcoming birthdays for sure.

Went to see Cloverfield last night.
I quite enjoyed it. Although the single handheld camera throughout got annoying from time to time, the realism it generated added to the suspense occasionally.It doesn’t take long for the viewer (at least me) to get annoyed at the character holding the camera, not just for pointing the camera the wrong way at the right moment, but also for his general incompetence.As far as I know, there are no sequels/prequels in the pipeline. But if there are, it should be easy to produce something that maybe introduces different characters with their own cameras and their own stories of escape/defeat..