I had one when I moved into my new flat, but the other half decided to get rid of it.
“You don’t need it. ” she opined knowingly. “The kitchen is barely five feet square, it’ll just get in the way. ”
I’ve often ruminated on this womanly wisdom and the unfortunate events it led to when, after getting down on my knees for an hour and a half to painstakingly clean that self same kitchen floor with a hand sponge, the lady in question dropped a large blob of peanut butter smack bang in the middle.
Had there been a real mop to hand, I can’t help but think that I wouldn’t have had to bash her brains out with a frying pan and use her hair as a substitute.
Fortunately I was able to dispose of the body in the Thames and escaped without consequence. Much as Jerry Bruckheimer manages to do with his latest foray into action/adventure nonsense.
While it may turn out to be a diabolical Harry Potter-lite, STS have a soft spot for anything with Nic Cage being ridiculous (So..everything he’s ever done then…), and generally find that he follows in Bruce Willis’ footsteps – the quality of his movies being directly attributable to the ludicrousness of his hairpiece.
Well, in Disney’s new take on The Sorceror’s Apprentice, he’s wearing a hat for most of it, so we’re withholding judgement for the moment -still, the effects look nice! More as we get it…
STS watches a lot of movies. Seriously, an unhealthy amount. You probably think we do this because we love film and love talking about it right? Well..yeah..I mean cool old films like Ghosbusters sure..but new movies?
Well since there’s no way of telling in advance if it’s any good or not, we tend to go on early buzz and how much free shit the studio will throw at us. Generally speaking, the higher the number of Jonny Depp bobble heads arriving on your doorstep, the worse the film. So based on these exacting criteria-how does Prince of Persia stack up?
As any fule ‘know, videogame adaptations are always amazing works of creative genius. Uwe Boll alone racking up over 5000 Oscars* in the past 3 years alone thanks to his amazing pieces of filmic art. And while it’ll be hard to top Uwe’s attempts to resusitate Christian Slater’s career, you can’t blame young filmakers like Mike Newell (apparently his last movie was a little-known, contemplative meditation on the trials of a boy wizard…) from hungering after some of that delicious award season glory, and hey, with Prince of Persia, he may just manage it!**
Time’s drawing in on summer, and there’s a new swords, sandals and side-scrolling tentpole release in town -check out the new trailer for Disney’s Prince of Persia!
