You might ask ‘Why did you go see this Voodoo?, it clearly looks like a pile of crap’. Well in my defense I wanted some feel good popcorn fare and it looked easy on the brain. I thought to myself…..Richard Curtis, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Rhys Darby etc - How bad could it be? Well, it was pretty bad my friends. The ad for it looks better than the entire movie does. There are too many characters and because of this they are all underused. The humour is weak and cringy, the plot is basic(read:BORING) and it is so very long, so very very long, completely snoozeworthy. I’m giving it a 1/5 ’cause the tunes are good and I liked the end credits. Not only because it was the end, there’s a nice CD montage aswell. Oh, and Philip Seymour Hoffman is in it, YUM.

I realise I am coming a bit late with this but it arrived quite randomly into my home this weekend and so I gave it a go. Bill Maher, who is well known (at least in the US) for being an atheist makes a very interesting documentary about religion in it’s various shapes and forms around the world. He doesn’t treat the subject with kid gloves and pretty much refutes the beliefs of the people he interviews and pokes holes in anything and everything for your viewing pleasure. This subject is particularly interesting to me as I come from a lapsed Catholic family (well, my parents are lapsed, my sibling and I never practised) and have many devout Catholic friends who I regularly have run- ins with about the subject. I was nodding and smiling all the way through this movie, because it echoes every hole I have poked myself … There’s more →