"based on a true story"

Y'know, going through Sight & Sound's extended critics' faves of 2009 and given the amazing critical praise it had (despite little distribution), I'm surprised to see how few people lost their shit over Love Exposure. Because, um, look at it.

I need a spare four hours to experience this for myself.

"king of copenhagen"

I finished the entire Pusher trilogy in about a week, something I'm seriously stoked about. I rule. Let's run it down: the first one is good and the most unusual of the lot, the second feels like a retread more than anything despite a cracking first act, and the third is the nastiest and probably the best, Zlatko Buric walking high and mighty over everybody else in the film. For a trilogy of films made to stave off total bankruptcy, they are way way better than they have any right to be.

Each film starts with an iconic opening montage set to the trilogy's theme music like so, one of the few times that I've seen heavy rock actually used well in a film. (If you're not an American filmmaker, it's most likely you'll know how to do this - apart from Zach Clark, whose underrated comedy Modern Love Is Automatic has a spot-on soundtrack from Blasphemer).

But the music I'm going to let you check out is the creeeeeeeepy ending theme to Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death by Peter Schneidermann. And you can see the trailer for the trilogy HERE.

wes anderson x roald dahl

I loved Fantastic Mr Fox growing up, and The Life Aquatic is one of my favourite films. I've been looking forward to this for a while - I hope it lives up to the promise.

Woulda been sicker with some more Quentin Blake in there but we'll wait and see. The flick premieres at the London Film Festival on the 14th October and gets general release on the 23rd.

smoke gets in your eyes...

The fact that there's a (seemingly legal) Bollywood remake of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times truly boggles the mind but I'm looking forward to seeing how this more crowd-pleasing take on the story works out.

Preview the Love Aaj Kal soundtrack here. Read about Three Times here - it really should be on your rental list, like, yesterday.