I arrived home roughly 40 hours ago, and I am currently sat in the living room listening to my sisters fight over Super Mario Bros. The thing that makes it really special is the inanely repetitive 1980’s platform game music. I’m not saying I didn’t miss them/this, but it is times like these that make me glad I’m too far away to pop back for weekend visits. I did have a lovely evening with my mum last night though. We went out for a meal at my favourite Indian restaurant and stopped off at Blockbuster on the way home to pick up a couple of DVDs. We picked ‘Cemetery Junction’ and ‘Burke and Hare’ – neither of which are the most recent films, but we chose mainly on the cast (both fans of Ricky Gervais and Simon Pegg).
I know it received mixed reviews, but I was a little bit disappointed with ‘Cemetery Junction’. It was a good watch, and it was well made, but I couldn’t 
help feeling I’d seen it all before. Anybody who has seen ‘Starter For 10’ will know what I’m talking about. The storyline differs slightly, but they both consist of the same main elements. Bawdy, uneducated roughish best friend with a penchant for ladies and fist fighting? Check, and in both cases (and, even though supposedly decades apart, both sporting the same slick black hair and obligatory bad boy leather jacket). Slightly chubby, awkward second friend? Present in both. Main character a bit distant because he can’t wait to get out and do better for himself? Yes, even to the point where he is treated badly and he doesn’t realise he’s surrounded by arseholes. Even though we’ve seen them all before, the characters are well written and likeable, which is the only thing that really saves this film. That and the fact its nice to look at and has an amazing soundtrack.
‘Burke and Hare’ is black comedy at its best. 
With a cast so fantastic, Christopher Lee does a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo and every single part, is played by one of the British comedy greats. Not as funny as his work with Nick Frost, Simon Pegg is shadowed by Andy Serkis’ performance – and quite rightly so. For the plot, the casting is brilliant. It is British humour at its best; dry and sarcastic, with a pinch of physical slapstick thrown in for good measure. A nice, easy to watch film. Of course, it isn’t written for the plot twists; based on a true story it would be hard to make anything truly shocking, but I would definitely recommend.
It is so sunny, we’ve just eaten lunch in the garden, and soon it’ll be time to feed the lambs again – we picked some up this morning and we’re keeping them so they’ll be hand reared and bottle fed. They are so cute and tiny, but it just makes me want to be vegetarian again. I’m glad I don’t like lamb! More on that tomorrow – and possibly pictures as well.
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