THE STREAM (pay no attention to the screaming man behind the screen)

From the time I first heard about this film I thought to myself "sounds good ... Can't wait to see it!" I have always been a sucker for a "true - ish" story, I don't know exactly how much of it is true but if 1% of it is then what the poster says is very true it is on hell of a story. Anthony Hopkins is a pleasure to watch in any role but this one is particularly good, he plays an eccentric Kiwi motorcyclist determined to run his 1920 Indian at the Bonneville salt flats during speed week. That's the basic story but as in life the real excitement is in the journey. Mr. Hopkins' performance is clear and intense he seems to live the character and in no longer than five minutes I was rooting for Burt to win the day, I was there with him as he jumped every hurdle and sidestepped every obstacle and it was a great ride. It is rare these days that a film is truly uplifting, and devoid of any downside, just pure entertainment. Go see it!... NOW! The real Burt...

While we were in japan it had occured to me that it would be a great opportunity to indulge my great love of Zushi. I had visions of wondering from one Zushi bar to another in a fish fuelled, wasabi flavored, saki adelled mission to eat my weight of the stuff (pretty odd for a guy that wouldn't even eat rice we he was young) As it turned out we didn't even get any Zushi till our last day in Japan, while waiting for our flight we had a few hours to fill and fill them we did in the town of Narita. We had stayed in a hotel near narita but we didn't really take a look around, so we just hit the streets and started walking round that's when we found this place. When we walked in there were just a couple of patrons there two very nice women that seemd to be friends of the owners. The owners a man and woman in there late 40's by my best guess had no english and we had little or no Japanese, but still we got our messages across We had a sampler of of the best he had ... an...

Just the other day I had the pleasure of seeing a film that had been on my 'to see' list for a while... "kiss kiss bang bang. I can't say enough good things about it, of course there is one thing that we should all know by now... A film with Robert Downey Jr. in it should be seen! I mean even if everything about the film has gone wrong this fantastic actors performance will be worth seeing. The pacing was just right & downey's naration left me rolling on the floor laughing. The story is fantastic great 'pulp' novel stuff as well as some unique film-making I won't say too much but just get to your local video shop, rent it & watch. I am becoming a Val kilmer fan (there's some words i never thought I write) His performance as 'Gay Perry' was great although as a gay male... well... none the less he was good. the last thing I saw him in was 'Spartan' another great film.