Film Recommendations

[glaconman]

That's great advise Andy. We've only been to the cinema once since being in India and that was for the boy's benefit (Chicken Little ... not great either). Luckily we have Jungle Book on the hard-drive here now. Just the greatest Disney cartoon, and having spent so much time in the jungle recently...

Unless of course you count the couple of films 'forced' on us whilst sat in buses (although Coolie starring Ambitah Birchan was a good laugh).

I would recommend Team America to anybody who thinks actors are always worthy of being potent social activists.

HAVING SAID THAT if people in the film industry stick to what they know and try and make films that are intellectually stimulating and speak about issues that desparately need to enter the public domain, then I'm very much for this as I believe there is great power in this.

And people like Clooney are trying to do this; get past his looks and there's a man to be taken seriously alright.

Constant Gardener has had much press recently, but it's worth the praise. I came out of the cinema feeling that the style, content and experience of the film meant that it instantly went into my top ten. I was very moved by it. And the director, Morelles is a genius already in my book, and with only 2 films to his name (City of God).