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[Sweder]

Saw Spacey in '21' - a card hustler Vegas number featuring Spacey as a professor of Math/ Maths (oh-oh ...) and his coerced students ripping off various Sin City casinos. Larry Fishburn steals the show as the hard-bitten security chief watching the pits. Good fun, none too challenging and a fair turn from KS. Far from his finest though.

Usual Suspects bears a second look MLCMan; you'll find that even with the most helpful summary in the cop's office you probably missed a few cracking details along the way. As you say, it's made that way, which makes it a darned clever film.

Unable to sleep whilst away last week I caught a cracking French film Ne le dis à personne (Tell no-one). I was spell-bound - perhaps it was the lateness of the hour, the still of the night or simply the edgy writing and excellent performances. Might also have been the presence of the sublime Kristin Scott-Thomas. One I'm sure to revisit.

On the flight home watched the brutal yet brilliant thiller Largo Winch - also featuturing talented multilinguist and recently-revealed top Sweder eye-candy KST. Mmm ... sorry, I need a moment ...
Think Bourne Identity with brains, and bells on.

Last but not least (apologies if mentioned in a previous post) The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke's BAFTA-winning turn as a burned-out WWF-style character. I didn't expect much, not being a big fan of grown men in lycra Mankinis, yet was blown away by Rourke's pathos-fuelled performance. Corny perhaps, in a Rocky kinda way, but, in my opinion, a better film. Plus Marisa Tomei playing a struggling single mum stripper helps things along quite nicley.

Coming up: District 9. Looks excellent.
Turkey of the year: Terminator Salvation. FFS just stop it - it's done