i’m having a bit of a movie weekend, and it was rounded off with watching this cute little song and dance penguin film which also has a strong environmental theme. sounds like it is trying to do too many things – and that does hurt the story telling. it does make you smile and chuckle out loud, but the one thing that did it for me was the animation – it really was stunning, the makers went for photographic realism and it works. the water scenes are especially realistic, it’s a shame the dvd extras didn’t go very far into the geeky side of the film making process as it would of been interesting to see what the makers process was.

night watch was probably the best Russian film i’ve ever seen… OK, it was the first and only Russian film i’ve ever seen! But it was an inspired piece of film making from highly acclaimed director / writer Timur Bekmambetov.

the sequel’s trailer has just been released on the apple trailers website and it looks stunning – check out the high def trailer here.

Oh, and the third installment is in production at the moment, imaginatively called ‘Dusk Watch‘ and it’s being filmed in English unlike the previous two as this one is being co-financed by Fox.

easter weekend has just passed and on sunday night sunny clacton set some fireworks off from the pier – i took a couple of photos, here’s the link to my flickr;

www.flickr.com/martinlucas

enjoy!