Okay, so I saw Inception on Tuesday and couldn't be bothered to review it right away. It has a huge cast including Leonardo Dicaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Marion Cottilard amongst others. It's about obtaining or planting information from within someone else's dream. It was an enjoyable, if slightly confusing, film with fantastic special effects and well worth seeing at the cinema. That said it's not one I'd watch again and I think it might have been trying to be a bit too clever for it's own good.
Now onto a film that's not trying to be clever..... The A-Team. I really enjoyed it! I wasn't looking forward to seeing it (except for the bits where Bradley Cooper has his top off) but it was really good, silly fun and quite funny throughout. There was one bit which was a bit over the top effects-wise which reminded me of the bit in Die Hard 4 with the plane and the lorry (i.e. just a bit silly) - look out for the container ship. The plot was more or less the premise for the series, that they were set up to take the fall for a crime they didn't commit and were trying to clear their names. A good fun film for all the family!

The Rebound was today's film. It stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as a mother of two who discovers her husband is cheating and moves with her children to the city and Justin Bartha as the young man she employs as her nanny. Inevitably the pair fall in love in what is a very sweet and enjoyable movie about the pitfalls of a 40-year old woman dating a 25-year old man. Probably more for the ladies or chaps who enjoy a romantic comedy but definitely worth watching!

I saw Toy Story 3 3D this week and enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I think I forget that these animated films are made for adults but are suitable for children.
TS3 picks up with the toys when Andy is just about to go off to college and the toys end up being donated to a day care centre where we meet some new characters included a cuddly pink bear called Lotso. We also meet the fabulous Ken - as in Barbie and - who is as flamboyant as you'd imagine! This did remind me of the previous films in places but not enough to distract from it being great entertainment and the 3D isn't really obvious with things constantly flying out of the screen at you. In fact, my friend commented at one point "it's not in 3D", which it is but it's just not really 'in your face' 3D. Buzz Lightyear is perhaps better than ever but I don't want to give anything away so will say no more!
This nearly made me cry so be warned if you're prone to crying at films (or anything like I am!). I say nearly as I was really trying not to as I didn't want to walk out of a cartoon with tears down my face - silly I know!
Anyway, it's well worth a watch!!

Killers, She's out of my league, Eclipse and Heartbreaker

I think we can see a pattern emerging here in that I always forget to review films right after seeing them and then play catch up. Not good enough I know but hey ho!

Okay, so I saw Killers a couple of weeks ago now and I really enjoyed it. It stars Ashton Kutcher as an undercover government assassin and Katherine Heigl as the woman he meets while she's on holiday. Fast-forward a few years and they're happily married and he's retired from the killing business, until Killers start coming out the woodwork to bump him off! A good fun film with two likeable lead actors and we get to see the lovely Ashton with his top off!

She's out of my League was another easy to watch film. Starring Jay Baruchel as the average Joe dating the woman out of his league and all the pitfalls associated with a 5 (him) going out with a hard 10 (her). Worth watching as it's pretty funny.

Twilight saga: Eclipse. What can I say? I'm a fan of the books although not such a massive fan of Rob Pattinson as Edward - not quite conventionally handsome enough for the Edward in my head. Don't get me wrong, I do like these films a lot and think Rob is very good BUT he's not quite what I imagined when reading the books. Anyway, this film is fairly true to the book although I did find myself a bit distracted at times trying to work out if certain bits were in the book or not - always an issue when watching films of books I've recently read. A fair bit of Jake-Abs action in this one which also included the line from Edward, 'doesn't he own a shirt' or words to that effect. The answer of course is, let's hope not! I shall be watching this again, possibly as soon as next weekend!!

Heartbreaker is a french film starring Romain Duris (I've never heard of him either!) and Vanessa Paradis (Joe le taxi anyone?). He is hired to break up relationships and is hired by her father to split Juliette (Paradis) from her fiance. Needless to say it doesn't go quite to plan. It was a funny and enjoyable film although I suspect many people went to see it not knowing it was French and subtitled as about 4 people walked out of the showing I was in which about halved the audience!