Adams Apples

Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to.

His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault.

His newest helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding his time before he can return to hell-raising. Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he'd like to bake a cake.

Ivan cheerfully takes that statement at face value and puts him in charge of the parish's pride and joy: the only apple tree in the vicinity. Grasping the extent of Ivan's crazed, preternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam immediately decides to shake him out of his rose-colored stupor.

Anders Thomas Jensen puts a whole lot of the world into one environment and stirs it up to make a great black comedy beyond compare.

Atonement

Oh such a love story, love that removes social boundaries that lasts the journey of time. What truly grabbed me at the same time was the unromantic view of war. The grit of it all and all of it's brutal affect on all.

How lucky am I that I didn't have to endure such things. Who pays so many innocent people against the will.

Nonetheless a beautiful picture great story telling.... You will need tissues.

War and life, neither fair!

Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season

Master of the gag delivered ever so patiently and deadpan to a discerning fan base of 1.

Got to admire these guy's balls! Taking themselves to the world (USA) I guess is the place. I keep watching more and more and think perhaps they are educating the US and letting them learn how to chill!

I laugh and squirm at the same time. True ambassadors, forget the politicians these dudes get my vote. Unashamedly kiwi blokes not seen something as good since the comedy genius of Fred Dagg.

However this flight is far from landing I would say!

Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.... A truly beautiful movie. Musicians perform a tribute to this very zen creature in a suit Mr Leonard Cohen.

Interview snippets are economically peppered throughout the movie and also one sees the economy of words and speech with purpose. Just listening is beauty to that voice. A guru of word and most humble.

To write something about this man is almost impossible as words fail me. Listening to his songs and lyrics delivered by other musicians with such conviction and passion to the lyric intent.

This movie oozes from the screen to your heart, as a child does to a parent. If you love music and the poetry of lyric then this movie is a must, if you don't yet you will after seeing it.

The man is simply a legend.

Control

The bands I grew up to in the loose sense of growing up. The Fall and Joy Division always figured highly on my playlist in the flat. The Fall seemed to cater for that angst with semi mystic lyric. Joy Division seemed deep and angst and a whole lotta things.

So when Ian Curtis takes his life what a crash. What a band that could have been. Miraculously New Order rose from this tragedy with success.

Seeing the movie Control re kindled all those feelings from the dizzy days when music could affect public thought and business can be a collective and bands could all earn direct avoiding that middle greedy business man!

But all the nostalgia aside. I felt like I was getting some "closure" something of an answering of why Ian Curtis took his life.

Even at moments I was transported back to the music the realness and the acting completely took me, I forgot ...this ends bad.

Wow what a movie from the bleakness of black and white TV Manchester England. This movie works on so many levels and gives such an understanding as one can of the band and the man Ian Curtis was.

The genius that was Joy Division a must see movie.