Knight and Day

Stars of Top Gear (see here) Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are the leads in this summer chase movie. Cruise plays an agent - is he rogue or not? - who is trying to stop the baddies from getting a source of power, some sort of super battery that can power a small town yet is the size of a AA. He meets Cameron, an innocent woman who restores old cars and is returning to her sister's wedding, on a flight and chaos and chasing ensues.

It's a pretty formulaic chase movie with various backdrops from around the world - USA, Azores, the Alps - and you're not going to find deep meaning in it. But as a light comedy caper movie it's okay. Like many movies these days it's 20 minutes too long, and could have done with editing back to 90 minutes, but the leads are likeable and engaging.

Both Cruise and Cameron have aged well - Cameron is stunning, though I can't help thinking of Wallace and Gromit films when I see her - and both are good at light comedy, Cameron especially. It's not going win awards and it could be better, but as sort of 'no brainer North by Northwest style chase film updated for the noughties' you could do worse.

A light 'popcorn movie' - but once in a while we all need one of those.

Website of the week

Apparently in the USA Old Spice has move on from Carmina Burana and surfing and is experiencing an upsurge in sales (see here) due to viral ads like these...







No sure what my Grandad - who always used Old Spice - would have made of it...

And for the nostalgia fiends...

All of the above?

Was filling out an equality monitoring questionaire the other day. Got to a question on sexual orientation - the options were;
a) Heterosexual/straight
b) Gay/lesbian
c) Bisexual
d) Other
e) Prefer not to say

Other?!? Wasn't sure whether to be slightly scared or whether I'm missing out on something...