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Unlike 45 years, (which we saw last week and which was fatuous self referential and bourgeois... which all I added simply because the review process requires you to have 10 lines: why?) this is not about boring middle aged people from Norwich. It is unashamedly positive in its take on European philosophy, the hero taking a side swipe at the English school of analytic philosophy (Frege and Russell) and then setting his stall in a bravura act of self-indulgence only to find his nemesis in an equally hypocritical Emma Stone who ... worth watching. But why does a review need 10 lines? Do not the people who run IMDb realize that you don't have to be verbally incontinent (which I am being now to satisfy them) to be effective? And, incidentally I did not want to write most of this and an sorry to bore you. but go see it. And now they want me to change the spelling of realize to from the one I had which used an s instead of a z!Tragic.

Saw Prizzi's Honour last night This is the original of Mr & Mrs Smith and a lot better. Much more nuanced, complex and brilliantly acted by Jack Nicholson, Kathleen turner and Angelica Huston. It is a bit of a spoof on the godfather and so has lots of allusions and in jokes. Fun, not high art but still way better than the remake. The ending is adroit and exciting if somewhat predictable and the twists and turns of the plot are dizzying but plausible and internally consistent. Jack Nicholson's mouth filler is a mistake but Kathleen turner looks spectacular and angelica Huston does a good turn as a spurned woman with charisma and panache.