More movies

Here I am, "watching" the Irish rugby match against Australia in New Zealand on the telly with Brendan. Great opportunity to catch up on my much-neglected blog. I'm going to try and get all these old movies out of the way. Here we go:

The kids are all right. Was that the one with Diane Keaton and Annette Bening playing a gay couple with children and a few issues? All I remember is tastefully designed interiors and frantic acting by Keaton and Bening. Not much good. Actually, it's Julianne Moore, not Diane Keaton. Still not much good.

Easy A: a pleasant enough movie about a girl who pretends to be a slut to help gay friends in school from being outed. It all gets very complicated, of course, but it will end well. She is a good girl after all.

Men who stare at goats: the weirdest movie I've seen in a long time. George Clooney as one of these ex-special ops, with a most interesting skill. He can make a goat die on its feet, just by staring at it. Also with Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey. Great fun, if you're into that kind of weird humour.

Into the wild: this is based on the book by the same name, one that Véronique had recommended to me. The story of a bright young man who leaves everything behind to go and live in the wilderness of Alaska. But disaster strikes and he dies alone. The film, like the book, follows the young man's journey from a comfortable middle-class upbringing to his lonely death in the Alaskan bush, and tries to find out what went wrong. Fascinating journey into the mind of a young man.

Banksy - Exit through the gift shop: on the face of it, not the kind of movie I would have gone for. But I have to say this was a very entertaining movie. It follows a Frenchman based in California who starts to film graffiti artists around the world, and then who decides to have a go at it himself. Art imitating art.