pmsumner

When I was down south and on my own hunting houses, I spent a lot of time wandering about and going "tum-te-tum, I am bored now", so ended up going to the cinema a couple of times. I saw "Down with Love" and "Intolerable Cruelty".

Down with Love is a 50's "pastiche", I think that's the right word... a pastiche of a random author who has written a book on how to get by without men, and her competing with "man about town" Ewan McGregor to prove a point. It's very well styled after films of the period, and very corny in many places. It's got some fantastic bits which make you laugh very hard, but some bits which made me cringe. Overall... worth getting out on DVD - otherwise don't bother.

Intolerable Cruelty? 10/10 - fantastic. I love George Clooney as an actor, I love the Cohen brothers directing. Good start :) It got a bit corny at the end but overall - packed with laughs and very watchable. The story of a hard-ass lawyer who breaks Marylin (Zeta-Jones) once, tries to do it twice, and then falls for her.

Anyhow. Bedtime it is. Working 8-8 tomorrow.