I double checked it was Kolinahr at the beginning of the original Star Trek movie. Pon Farr was in the TV series.

Interesting that the voice on the phone in the climactic final scene is the guy who played Sam Beckett, and he begins the conversation with "oh boy"

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Very clever, beautiful cinematic, excellent cast, intriguing dialogue, but a little erm, monotonous?

Thing To Do In Denver When You're Dead. (1995)

Not a new film, but one I had the pleasure of watching again recently.
I have seen this in about 10 years, and I was still tickled by it.
Some call it a Johnny Come-lately in the post Pulp Fiction landscape of the mid nineties, but I think that's a disservice.
A great cast (Andy Garcia, Chris Walken, Chris Lloyd, William Forsythe, Steve Buscemi, Fairuza Balk, Gabrielle Anwar) a good story and a slightly dark, noir-ish feel helps the film along.

8/10 I'd say.

For a taster... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCy7s3u749Q

Give it a spin!

I've always thought it's very underrated.

Interesting that it only gets 1 rotten tomato but 4 stars on IMDB...

Skyline

Crap. Don't bother. Zero story, poor acting and some decent SFX.

You can watch it with the sound off and not miss a thing.

I'll give it 3 out of 10 (purely for the SFX)

Battle: Los Angeles



A blending of Black Hawk Down and War Of The Worlds produces a slightly odd movie. The director has gone for a hand-held documentary approach which sometimes works well and sometimes is very annoying. The story is a simple one and had the potential to be entertaining and thrilling but it often isn't. It's not a showy, effects-heavy movie and some sequences are good but it is trying for the 'reality' of, say, District 9 and poor alien designs really let the side down. Plus, it includes every war film cliché you could imagine. I wasn't expecting much - I thought it would be much more slick like Independence Day - but overall it was disappointing.

5 out of 10

Inside Job

A documentary, narrated by Matt Damon, exploring the background and key failures that led to the global financial collapse of 2008.

I may be slow on this, perhaps many of you have already seen it. If you haven't, you really should.

I don't know how to score it, being a documentary, but IMHO it's a must see.

IS family guy any good? considering buying the boxset

I agree btw Inside man was AWESOME, the sortof film you absaloutly must not give any hint what its about, very well written

Inside Man or Inside Job?

Inside Job.

Inside man was the Denzel Washington/Clive Owen bank heist film.

oops read it wrong, never seen inside job before, was subconsciously thinking of that heist film

Spike Lee, who said that he hadn't realised that Die Hard 3 had been based on riddles, he said he would have never had the hostage taker give riddles in Inside Man if he'd have realised

Dunno if there's many clips on 'Tube these days, but there's certainly loads around the web if you want a taster of it, I'd personally recommend it