Recent Movies
The Champ - I'd never seen this before, but what a great, heart warming film. When/If I ever have a little boy, I'm going to watch The Champ every year just to remind me what great dads will do for their kids (minus the gambling and alcohol). 8/10
Taxi Driver - I've seen it before, but this is a great gritty film. So watchable, my eyes didn't leave the screen. 9/10
Dream Girls - really terrible. I don't mind a musical, in fact I loved Chicago, but this was not a good musical. The songs didn't really have any authenticity to them (I listen to a lot of funk and soul, so I feel I know this), they were more like vague recent pop-versions of what the music could have been. Like a chinese whispers of the real stuff. And that was most certainly not an Oscar winning performance from Jennifer Hudson. How she beat Cate Blanchett is beyon me (actually, its obviously because she is a minor American success story). 3/10