A weekend of film

I'm not sure if watching 3 films on a Saturday qualifies as a weekend of film, but it's the most we've watched in one day for quite a while. We actually spent 11 hours sat on a sofa (with occasional breaks of course) and  if that's not dedication to film then I don't know what is. This is just a quick little post to keep all you folks up to date.

American History X (oooh), The Departed (oooh), and The Hills Have Eyes II (oooh dear) were the films in question this weekend (we had planned to watch Hunger Games before the release of its successor Catching Fire on the 21st but Ollie's knock off piracy copy wouldn't play...)

The best of the bunch was, unsurprisingly, American History X, followed closely however by The Departed. American History X really was a spectacular piece of film making. We watched The Believer a short while ago starring Ryan Gosling which runs along a similar story line to it, but isn't as good. And The Departed, with an all star cast was brilliant too, but with a slow start. Jack Nicholson was great as always, mixing humor with his characters dark nature. 

Both American History X and The Departed are films that I would recommend, however if you are reading this post and like film even just a little bit, I would bet you've already seen both. So that was a pretty pointless post upon revising.

Rosie