I’m a pretty big fan of Russell Peters and have been since I first saw him years ago. Though if I ever try and figure out where I first saw him I hit a brick wall. Was it on TV, one of his stand up DVD’s or a YouTube clip?

I’m a big fan of CG animated films, with Pixar being like the film gods with their amazing run of awesome films. Though that sadly came to a crashing halt with ‘Cars 2’, but I can ignore that blip on the radar.

It’s not often that a kids Christmas film will actually draw me in enough to go along and see it. In which case, it would be even rarer for said film to draw me in enough to drag a mate along as well.

Cinema from around the world can sometimes fall into their own unique little genre bundles.

Having worked in a few book stores over the years meant I was pretty familiar with the books ‘Freakonomics’ and ‘Superfreakonomics’. That doesn’t mean I read them of course, I just knew ‘of’ them.

Having come off the press screening for the average ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks 3’ the day before, there was a part of me that was worried ‘ The Muppets’ might head down the same route, the overly kiddie route.

When you watch a trailer and see that the film stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, you can instantly draw some conclusions. What conclusions I hear you say?

When it comes to Will Ferrell I think he can be a bit of a mixed bag. When he cameos, he’s more often than not brilliant and steals scenes left right and centre.

Being a massive fan of ‘300’ meant there was always going to be a bunch of like minded films coming out vying to knock it off the perch in my mind as the best epic battle film ever.

Frank Darabont is one of my all time favourite directors, and that’s pretty much only because of two films, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and ‘The Green Mile’. Whereas his two other feature films are just ok, but I’m fine with turning a blind eye to those.