Today is my birthday. I am 23. I woke up this morning to find that it had snowed. For the first time that I can remember, there has been snow on my birthday. Very strange. Alison will be cooking me steak for tea tonight, as a birthday treat, and tomorrow we are going to go to the cinema. We were going to go see
Hitch, but it's not out till next week so we might go see
Hotel Rwanda instead. Expect a critique of some film or other on Monday.
Talking of films, there's a new trailer for the
Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy out and about on the web. You can pick it up
over here. The site has it in various formats and sizes and whatnot. It looks pretty good. Interesting casting, good looking effects. There's some furore over Ford Prefect being black, but I hardly think it's worth causing a fuss over. So long as his personality fits Ford, that's fine. It's not like we knew for sure what Ford looked like in the radio shows or even in the books, so I'm not too bothered. The film is due out in June, I think, and I'll definitely be going to see that.
While I'm on trailers, there's also a
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory teaser trailer, which you can pick up
over here. I think it's really too early to say how this film will turn out. On the one hand it's a great story, it's got the excellent Johnny Depp in it, and it's directed by the brilliant Tim Burton. On the other hand... well, watch the trailer. It's twee in the
extreme, but I think that's intentional. I'm sure the final film will be very dark and weird. I'm hoping so anyway.
Right. Back to work. See you all on Monday...
