Jonah Hex trailer

Yee-frikken-hah!
Must confess I'm a bit weary about Megan Fox being in it...

Iron Man 2

Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) teams up with screenwriter Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder) in one of this year's most anticipated movies.
The question is, was it worth the wait?
Mostly hell yeah.
It's been six months since Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) came out of the metal closet and declared to the world, 'I am Iron Man,' and things have been going pretty well. International conflicts are at an all time low, Stark renovated his laboratory after he trashed it in the last movie, and his good friend Lt. Col. James Rhodes has been replaced by Don Cheadle (Ocean's 11-13).
But, things don't stay good for long.
The palladium in the miniature arc reactor Stark created to stop shrapnel from entering his heart is poisoning him. He needs another energy source and fast. However that's not enough to stop Stark from being the dare devilish billionaire that he is. On a trip to Monaco for the Grand Prix, Stark ducks out of a meeting and slips into his company sponsored formula one car to drive the race himself.
Enter Whiplash and his slice 'n' dice electric whips.
Played by a seriously buff Mickey Rourke (Angel Heart), Russian physicist Ivan Vanko is fuelled with revenge after the death of his father. Vanko thinks that Tony's dad Howard (John Slattery - Mad Men) stole his future. Vanko's father Anton (Yevgeni Lazarev) used to work with Howard but it seems that Howard got all the credit. After causing a ruckus at the race Vanko gets locked up in prison.
In a U.S Senate hearing Senator Stern (Garry Shandling - The Larry Sanders Show) wants Tony Stark to hand over his Iron Man suit to the U.S Government ultimately so they can study it and make more. Tony ain't too happy about this. His rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell - Moon) wants in on it too so he can upstage Tony at his own convention.
In a jailbreak that would make MacGyver jealous involving mashed potatoes and a key, Vanko is set free and starts working on making Hammer's vision a reality. Only Vanko has a vision of his own.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff going on that will take forever to write about. Stuff with love interest/assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), sexy notary Natalie Rushman (Scarlette Johansson), patch-wearing Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) and the always watching S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg). It is a lot to keep track of but Favreau (who has also cast himself in the flick as Stark's pal Happy Hogan) manages to keep it all together... at a cost.
Apart from the script being fantastic, the witty dialogue superb - there's not a whole lot of action this time around. Most of the time is spent acquainting oneself with all these new characters and not much time is spent on the fight scenes. Maybe that's just me but I wanted to see more biffo!
DJ AM fans will recognise Adam Goldstein playing himself in a really funny scene at Tony's house. The film was dedicated to Goldstein after he died in a plane crash last year.
Much like the first movie, Iron Man 2 is a lot of fun. Seeing RDJ in anything is worthwhile. His performance is again, flawless. The man is a wonder.
I hope someone gives the makeup department a years worth of detention. What on earth was going on there? RDJ looked almost orange and Sam Rockwell had fake tan stains all over his neck and hands! Blend people, BLEND!
Make sure you stick around till the end of the credits and keep your eyes peeled for a few easter eggs from the up and coming The Avengers movie throughout the flick! Also keep an eye out for Iron Man creator Stan Lee in on of his famous split second cameos.
Eight out of ten.

Happy Town

When In Rome

To be honest, I wasn't really expecting much from this chick flick. So many others had let me down in the past, so many I straight out avoided for fear them being total utter shite. But this one, thankfully, is different.
When In Rome, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil) with a screenplay by David Diamond and David Weissman (co-writers of Evolution), is another fun popcorn movie with a huge cast. Maybe this should have been the premise for that over inflated train wreck called Valentine's Day. It would have made that one so much more enjoyable.
Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) is Beth, young and passionate art curator at the Guggenheim Museum. She has just broken up with her boyfriend Brady (Lee Pace - Wonderfalls)(*swoon*) and is happy to focus on her career. Her little sister Joan (Alexis Dziena - Entourage) is about to marry Umberto (Luca Calvani - The International) after meeting him on a plane and only knowing him for two weeks.
The wedding is to be in Rome. Family and friends are shipped out to the romantic city where Beth, after making a bit of a fool of herself, meets Nicholas (Josh Duhamel - Transformers)(*double swoon*). They share a moment in a blackout but soon Beths' hopes come crashing down when she sees Nicholas with a striking brunette.
Armed with a bottle of wine and bare feet, Beth pops into the Fountain De Amore and steals five coins that hopeful romantics have tossed in while wishing for true love.
This ends up to not be a good thing.
The men who threw those coins into the fountain fall under a spell and head over heels in love with Beth, following her around everywhere she goes.
There's sausage king Al Russo (Danny DeVito - Twins), Italian painter Antonio (Will Arnett - Arrested Development), spooky magician Lance (Jon Heder - Napolian Dynamite), and self-obsessed model Gale (Dax Shepard - Kristen's real life fiance).
Beth learns that in order to break the spell she has to either return the coins to the fountain, or give them back to their owners. The problem is, she thinks one coin belongs to Nicholas. Does he really love her or is there some greater force at work?
When In Rome is really enjoyable. Lots of laughs and truly funny moments. Cameo's galore including Don Johnson (Miami Vice) as Beth's dad, Efren Ramirez (Pedro!!) as Lance's video happy friend, Kristen Schaal (Flight Of The Conchords) as a creepy waitress, and Anjelica Houston (The Royal Tenenbaums) as Beth's 'Meryl Streep-esque' boss. For those playing at home, the priest is Keir O'Donnell who played Claire's boyfriend Thomas on Lost - I couldn't remember where he was from for ages! Thank you imdb.com!
Yes, it's predictable, but what rom/com isn't these days? There is a formula that sometimes works and sometimes fails hopelessly. This time it works. I've seen some not too good reviews about the film but hey, perhaps they were expecting something else. It's no life-changer, it's just a whole lot of fun and that's OK with me.
Things I learnt; Dax Shepard is so BUFF and looks great in bright green lycra; Lee Pace needs to do more movies (that is, apart from the up and coming 'Marmaduke' flick).
Seven out of ten.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith is fast becoming my favourite author. This is the third book of his I've read, the other two being How To Survive A Horror Movie and Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
ALVH is a biography of sorts, telling the life of the sixteenth President of the United States through his journals and letters from the time he was a small boy until his assassination in 1865.
The book starts rather cheekily with Dan Brown-esque 'FACTS' about vampires and the existence of Abe's journals, apparently their existence is debated amongst historians and the like.
As a young boy, Abe watched his mother Nancy die a horrible death. A few years later during a drunken stupor his father Thomas reveals to Abe that her death was caused by a vampire.
With revenge in his heart, Abe and his trusty axe go in search of these dark eyed, blood suckers.
Strapped for cash Abe helps his father out financially with whatever jobs he can find. One night, while hunting vampires, he meets Henry Sturges. Henry is a vampire. A good vampire. Henry gives Abe lists of names and addresses of vampires that need to be put to death. Abe obliges him for some years.
Slave auctions are held in many of the southern towns he visits, much to Abe's disliking. He discovers that the vampires are feeding on the young and weaker slaves, leaving the stronger ones for hard labour.
Abe, born with the gift of the gab, gets himself elected into the House of Representatives in a hope to get his voice heard about the plague of the south and to abolish slavery.
He suffers many hardships throughout the years, the death of loved ones haunt him; Henry offers to turn them into vampires so they can live forever but Abe declines.
As President, Abe encounters his biggest test yet, the Civil War. The hatred from the south is fueled by vampires not wanting their slaves to be free. After a long, bloody fight, the South eventually surrenders. Most of the vampires flee to other countries.
One vampire that stayed behind would soon change the course of that nation's history.
His name was John Wilkes Booth.
We all know of that fateful night on April 14th, 1865 at Ford's Theatre when Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in cold blood. The next day, April 15th, the sixteenth President of the United States, freer of slaves and friend of his country, died.
Or did he???
Dun dun duuuuuuuun...
Seth Grahame-Smith has a gift. His ability to weave such unbelievable tales into fact is masterful. The illustrations throughout the book are cleverly photo-shopped. Many of Lincoln's monumental moments are captured on film with the addition of pale figures wearing dark glasses.
I'm amazed at the attention to detail Graham-Smith has put into this book. He must have done so much research into Abe's life to get to know him that well to anticipate what his actions might be in any situation, to give it that extra level of authenticity. Not knowing much about Lincoln's life made the experience even more enjoyable adding a certain mystery about the man.
My favourite book of the year, so far.
The good news is, Seth Grahame-Smith is currently adapting his novel into a screenplay.
I.
Can't.
Wait.
Nine out of ten.

Date Night

Take the premise from one of Alfred Hitchcock's best flicks, pop in two of America's best comedians, add sprinkles of Marky Mark with no shirt and you've got Date Night.
Directed by Shawn Levy (Night At The Museum I & II) with a screenplay by Josh Klausner (Shrek Forever After), Date Night takes us along on a journey with an average New Jersey couple who just want to add a little bit of spice on their life. Is that too much to ask?
Pfft.
This is Hollywood.
Of course it is.
Phil and Claire Foster (Steve Carell and Tina Fey) live in the burbs with two kids and a babysitter that looks a lot like that chick from Gossip Girl. Wait, it is that chick from Gossip Girl (Leighton Meester). At a weekly (and very funny) book club gathering Phil and Claire learn that their good friends, and supposedly happily married couple, Brad and Haley Sullivan (Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Wiig) are about to split up. The Fosters take stock of their relationship and on one of their regular 'Date Nights' Phil decides to take Claire out to dinner in the city instead of their regular local haunt.
'Claw' is a new, hip seafood restaurant that has reservations booked a month in advance. When the Fosters can't get in, they take someone else's reservation, the Tripplehorn's. Much like North By Northwest, the Fosters get themselves mixed up in a case of mistaken identity that has them fleeing for their lives. Sadly, no crop dusters or scaling Mount Rushmore are included.
Claire takes Phil to meet Holbrooke (Mark Wahlberg - Funky Bunch); a security guy who bought one of her properties. Incapable of wearing a shirt, Holbrooke is handy in other departments, like tracking down the real Tripplehorns. They are 'Taste' (James Franco - my dreams) and Whippit (Mila Kunis - The Book Of Eli), 'Tripplehorn' is their alias. Turns out they've got a flash drive (or a computer sticky thing) that has photos of someone very high up the food chain. The bad guys, headed up by Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta - Goodfellas), think the Fosters have said drive.
Date Night is a fun flick; there are some great moments between Carell and Fey, and an interesting car case involving a very swanky Audi and a cab...
The movie is not too long, a brisk 88 minutes, which is always nice; some movies just don't know when to stop. I thought it would be a wee bit formulaic, which it was in parts, but overall it was an enjoyable experience.
There's a few outtakes during the credits that will have you laughing some more.
Things I learnt; never take anyone else's dinner reservation under any circumstances; Marky Mark can model underwear for me any day; dancing The Robot might one day save your life.
Seven out of ten.

Beneath Hill 60

With ANZAC Day just around the corner it's time to reflect on the men and women who fought in countless wars, struggling to keep what we hold most dear; our culture, our freedoms, our way of life.
Beneath Hill 60 transports us back in time to 1916, deep under in the trenches of World War I. After successfully blowing up a German outpost called the Red House at Armentires in France, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company are shipped off to the Messines Ridge in Belgium to set off another explosion right under the German's feet. The company is made up of miners from around the country; Woolloongong, Broken Hill, Townsville; none of the men are soldiers.
The tunnels underground are dank and the threat of flooding is constant. It takes sixty men working around the clock just to bucket the water out of the shafts so the men can keep on digging. They need to stop the tunnels from flooding so they can detonate the thousands of pounds of explosives.
It becomes a race against time as the Aussies discover the Germans are busy digging their own tunnels.
Adapted from the diaries of Captain Oliver Woodward (played by Brendan Cowell - Three Blind Mice), screenwriter David Roach (Young Einstein) and director Jeremy Sims (Last Train To Freo) give us a chilling look into the lives of a few brave men and the sacrifices they made in order to do their part in the war.
The hopelessness of war is juxtaposed by Woodward's life before he signs up for the army. He is smitten with the young and beautiful Marjorie Waddell (Bella Heathcoate) and promises to write to her when he is away and hopefully marry her if he gets back.
Back in the trenches, this extraordinary group of men are bombarded with shells and gunfire from the enemy. Friendships are formed, lives are inevitably lost but the war stops for nothing.
Filmed near Townsville, Queensland, Sims has masterfully recreated the appalling living conditions that one wouldn't dare to dream of. The atmosphere hangs thick and heavy with rain, mud and death. Beneath Hill 60 has a brilliant ensemble cast, the only problem with that being I didn't get to know everyone as much as I'd liked to. Cowell's performance is superb, also worth noting is Harrison Gilbertson who plays Frank Tiffin. At just sixteen, Tiffin is thrust into the war as many young men were. Always afraid, he dreams of going back home to start an apprenticeship with his father.
One thing stood out in this film, as with many Australian war films; that laid back attitude shines through, that iconic sense of humour; no matter how bad things get you can always count on your mates for a good laugh to get you through the tough times.
Beneath Hill 60 has certainly earned its place alongside the likes of Gallipoli and The Light Horsemen as a reminder to all Australians of where we came from and what many had to do in order for us to get here.
A must see.
Nine out of ten.

The Losers trailer

Jeffrey Dean Morgan
*swoon*



Coming soon

Kick Ass

Kick Ass delivers what its name promises. And then some.
Director Matthew Vaughn (Stardust) teams up again with Stardust screenwriter Jane Goldman in a fine adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's comic book about a normal everyday kid who puts on a superhero costume to fight crime.
Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson - who played John Lennon in Nowhere Boy) loves his comics. His mates Marty (Clark Duke - Superbad) and Todd (Evan Peters - One Tree Hill) share in Dave's passion and often meet at Atomic Comics after school to talk about superheroes. Dave mentions that there are so many films and comic books in the world yet no one has ever put on a suit and become a super hero.
After being beaten up by a couple of petty criminals, Dave goes home and orders a green and yellow wetsuit. A few working days later, Kick Ass is born.
After a bloody fight and also being hit by a car, Dave's body is bent and broken. The doctors put so many metal pins and plates on his bones he looks like Wolverine. With a few damaged nerve endings that don't let him feel too much pain, Dave pops the suit on again to kick some real ass when he meets Hit Girl and Big Daddy.
Hit Girl (Chloe Mortez - soon to be seen in the US remake Let Me In) is just eleven. Her dad, Big Daddy (Nic Cage - Nic Cage as Everyone) lost his wife when she was killed by crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong - Sherlock Holmes) and is out for revenge. He has taught his daughter to use weapons and fight so they can spend quality daddy-daughter time together while seeking justice at the same time. That is multi-tasking.
Dave also meets fellow superhero Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Superbad) as they team up to fight crime together.
But in a world where no one knows your true identity, it's hard to know who your friends really are.
Kick Ass is frikken awesome. It's bloody, it's violent, it's just great! There's a whole bunch of controversy about eleven year old Mortez giving Samuel L Jackson a run for his money in the swearing department, but hey. Show me one kid who hasn't heard a curse word and I'll show you a parent who needs to unlock the basement.
She is fantastic though, she's a great little actress and packs a mean punch when she needs to (which is most of the time). I can totally see her in a kiddie Tarantino flick!
Mark Strong has to be one of my favourite super-bads. I loved him in Sherlock Holmes. He does a very convincing New York accent (I think it was NY!!) as do all of the Brits in this film (there's heaps of them, including Johnson!)
The soundtrack was brilliant, I loved hearing Elvis Presley singing Glory Hallelujah towards the end of the film and Joan Jett's Bad Reputation provides a great backdrop to one of Hit Girl's rampages.
I definitely want to see this one again - maybe after the school holidays : )
Things I learnt: with no power comes no responsibility; Aaron Johnson has beautiful eyes; jet packs are still cool after all these years.
Ten out of ten.

She's Out Of My League

Meet Kirk (Jay Baruchel, How To Train Your Dragon). He's a pretty geeky guy who works in airport security. Not the tough macho guy kind of security, the wand swiping, metal detector kind. He works with his mates Stainer (T.J Miller, How To Train Your Dragon), Devon (Nate Torrence, Get Smart), Jack (Mike Vogel, Cloverfield) and ex-girlfriend Marnie (Lindsay Sloane, Bring It On).
Kirk and Marnie broke up two years ago but Kirk wants to give it another try. Marnie has since moved on and is totally not interested in going out with him again.
One day at work, Kirk has a chance encounter with Molly (Alice Eve, Sex and the City 2). Molly is gorgeous, a 'hard ten'. Unfortunately Kirk's friends have rated him as a five. According to Stainer's Tao of Love, fives and tens don't mix.
Molly accidentally leaves her mobile phone at the airport and Kirk says he will look after it until she gets back. The next day, Molly invites Kirk to a party where he gives her back her phone. The two have date after date and pretty soon they're 'together' and no one can believe it. Marnie gets a tad jealous and tries to win him back. Meanwhile, Kirk's issues with poor self esteem don't do him any favours in the relationship department especially after meeting Molly's ex-boyfriend Cam (Geoff Stults - Happy Town), a pilot who is ridiculously good looking.
First time feature director Jim Field Smith teams up with screenwriting duo John Morris and Sean Anders (Hot Tub Time Machine) in this great film about finding the right person no matter what you're 'ranked' as.
T.J Miller's Stainer is hilarious; his Hall and Oates tribute band 'Adult Education' is superb and his hair is magnificent! There's a scene involving a dog and Kirk's crotch that is a wee bit awkward but I think those dog/crotch scenes are a prerequisite for most flicks these days anyway. I love the chemistry and the banter between Kirk and his mates. The dialogue is really clever and witty. Kirk's family also provide some great moments.
All in all, lots of fun, another great popcorn movie.
Things I learnt: Parents always come home at the most inappropriate of times; always let the dude in the other bowling lane go first; best to leave the manscaping up to the professionals.
Seven out of ten.

Micmacs

French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a genius. He's one of my favourite directors and his film Amelie has been cemented in my top five films of all time since I saw it. His films are filled to the brim with quirky characters, sumptuous settings and witty dialogue. This one is no exception.
His latest film is Micmacs - the full title is Micmacs A Tire-Larigot, roughly translated as 'non-stop madness'. Jeunet co-wrote Micmacs with co-writer of Amelie, Guillaume Laurant.
Micmacs tells the story of Bazil (Dany Boon) and a team of eccentric salvage collectors as he tries to bring down two arms dealers.
In Morocco, Bazil's father is killed by a land mine left over from a previous war. Many years later, Bazil is working in a video shop when he is shot by a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting outside. He doesn't die. Unsure of whether or not to operate, the surgeon flips a coin and decides to leave the bullet lodged in his brain.
Bazil looses his apartment with all his possessions and there's someone else in his position at the video shop. Homeless and practically penniless, Bazil hits the streets and starts busking for money where he meets 'Slammer' (Jean-Pierre Marielle) who 'adopts' Bazil and introduces him to his oddball family.
Bazil discovers the two weapons manufacturers that made the land mine that killed his father and the bullet that is stuck in his head have offices in the same street, conveniently across the road from each other. Bazil, with the help of his new friends, plot to take down the arms dealers.
Jeunet has such an exquisite eye for detail. Every character has a fascinating and unique back story; from Slammer who was almost killed by a guillotine but it got stuck; to Fracasse (Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon) who said that he made the Guinness World Record for the furtherest human cannon ball back in 1977 but he lost his certificate; and Remington (Omar Sy) an ethnographer who constantly speaks in cliches! Tiny Pete (Michel Cremades) is an elderly man who can lift almost anything and creates masterpieces out of the junk they collect, Calculette (Marie-Julie Baup) is the daughter of a surveyor and a dressmaker and a whizz with numbers.
The sets are gorgeous. The house in the salvage yard is made up entirely of junk and filled with Tiny Pete's inventions. Even the car that Bazil drives around oozes with Jeunet-ness in that signature tone of green. Make sure you keep an eye out for posters advertising the film within the actual film!
With schemes elaborate and crazy enough to out do all of the Ocean's 11 films put together, Micmacs is a testament to what people can do if they put their minds to something.
Jeunet has out-Jeuneted himself, I couldn't stop laughing. There's a scene where Fracasse tempts a security dog with a sausage, it was almost like the dog had taken acting lessons with its response! I guess you had to be there...
There is a deeper side to the story, towards the end we get to know rival arms dealers Marconi (Nicolas Marie) and de Fenouillet (Andre Dussollier) and just what exactly their business means - killing and maiming people. Jeunet deals with this in a very subtle, tactful way.
Thing I learnt: Contortionists should not be kept in the refrigerator; Dominique Pinon can stick more spoons on his head than anyone I know; James Bond could learn a thing or two from these guys.
Tres magnifique! Another film to watch over and over again.
Nine out of ten.

Clash Of The Titans

Directed this time around by Loius Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) with the screenplay by Travis Beacham and Phil Hay, COTT is a remake of the 1981 version originally directed by Desmond Davis. For those of you who haven't seen the original, do rent it out, it's such a fun movie! The part that has stuck in my brain for so many years from the original was a whole lot of plasticine and Bubo the metallic owl flying around everywhere.
In this version, there is no plasticine in sight, however Bubo does make a thankfully brief appearance.
Like a class in Greek Mythology 101, COTT is the story of Perseus (Sam Worthington) and the quest he goes on to save the future of man kind. No mean feat, but someone has gotta do it. Perseus isn't your average guy, his father was Zeus which makes Perseus a demi-god and super special.
Life in Ancient Greece is tough, the Gods aren't listening to man anymore because men aren't listening to the Gods anymore. The Gods of Olympus live off the worship of man and the cupboard is getting bare. Zeus (Liam Neeson) and Hades (Ralph Fiennes) have a bit of a chat and decide the only way to get man to worship them again is to scare the shite out of them. They plan to unleash hell (aka The Kraken) unless cocky King Kepheus (Vincent Reagan) sacrifices his daughter Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) before the eclipse in ten days time.
Enter Perseus. His adoptive family were killed by the Poseidon when their boat sank to the bottom of the ocean. Perseus is pissed. He gets thrown in with a group of Praetorian guards hell bent on destroying the Kraken and saving mankind from the will of the Gods.
Lead by Draco (Mads Mikkelsen) the guards and Perseus are joined by cursed beauty Io (Bond girl Gemma Arterton) and a member of the Djinn - a mysterious race of wooden creatures who are really good at fighting and taming scorpions.
Much like the original, Perseus and co fight giant scorpions, battle with Medusa and eventually take on the mammoth Kraken. This time around, Leterrier has amped up the action a few dozen notches and has given us quite a show sans stop animation sequences.
I really enjoyed the opening sequence, a voice-over guided us through the constellations high up in the heavens while introducing the main characters. Seemed like a nice touch as we've stolen many names from Greek mythology and given them to the stars.
The special effects are really well done, although I must say Medusa looked pretty, well, crap. Compared with the rest of the effects, she was a bit of a let down. I think she was all CGI, perhaps if they'd modelled her on an actual actor she might have turned out better? Maybe?
The Kraken was pretty impressive. Zeus' white shining suit of armour was simply dazzling. And Lord Voldemort, oops, Hades' wings of black smoke was awesome. Deep Space Nine fans will be thrilled to see Alexander Siddig (Dr Julian Bashir) as Hermes; at least I was, I had such a crush on Dr Bashir.
*swoon*
I saw it in 2D, it didn't seem like the kind of movie that needed to be seen in 3D (like Avatar, Alice in Wonderland). Also, the 3D-ness was added post production so I don't know if that is a good thing or not. I might try it out in 3D just to see the difference but I don't think there would be much. Sure there were things flying at the screen every now and then but I don't feel it detracted from the story by not seeing it in 3D. Seems they want everything in 3D these days but does the story warrant it? That is the question one must ask before departing with those extra few dollars and donning those not so comfortable glasses for two hours.
Fans of action flicks will not be disappointed, there's loads of sword on sword action; fans of men in skirts will be very satisfied, Sam Worthington has very shapely legs : )
If you're wondering why the chap who plays Eusebios looks so familiar, it's Nicholas Hoult, he was the kid in About A Boy with Hugh Grant - all grown up now.
I was a bit scared of the hype, as always, but was pleasantly surprised. Clash Of The Titans is a great popcorn movie; it's no Oscar contender but hey, it was a fun way to spend an afternoon.
Things I learned: riding on a giant scorpion looks just like riding on an elephant; if one is required to wear a leather skirt, colour coordinated underwear is a must; I really want Liam Neeson saying 'Release the Kraken' as a ringtone!
Eight out of ten.