Inception Review - to listen, or not to listen, that is the question

Inception hits the screens in the UK today, and I for one am seriously looking forward to it. I'm also a big fan of the Kermode and Mayo show on the BBC's fivelive radio station. I love listening to Mark Kermode's reviews as he undertakes his job with such passion and enthusiasm. It only makes me sad when he puts me off going to see a film (he can be very persuasive!), only to find out years later that I actually thought it was alright.

Anyway, having not learnt my lesson, I'm going to see what he has to say about Inception this afternoon ahead of seeing it tonight. If you want to listen, he's on at 2pm UK time (GMT+1) and you can listen here (Outside the UK may have trouble with this link. Clearly I don't condone using a UK proxy, or anything like that.)

More problems for Justin Bieber as he "denies the holocaust"

Is it just me, or is anyone else starting to feel a little bad for poor old Justin Bieber. I'm not sure he'll ever shake off his role as National, and now international public joke.

Now there is a trending meme that he denied the holocaust. I have no other information on this, I'm not sure where is originated (4chan again?) - if you know, enlighten us in the comments.

Surely no-one seriously gets taken in by these hoaxes?

Tickets for the singers N Korea tour go on sale on Monday.

Alexa Ray Joel: 'My dad tells me to cover my boobies'

Alexa Ray Joel - Daughter of piano man billy - told Howerd Stern her father tells her to cover up her lady bits before going out!

I think any fathers out there can sympathise with the uptown guy's desire to protect his daughter - after all he's been around the block a few times himself!

Get the full story at Showbiz Spy

Radiohead : In Rainbows

Everyones talking about it, and with good reason. Is In Rainbows the first album in the new world order of buying music? Are the record companies losing their grip on an industry where they are becoming less and less relevant. Or will bands find they need the likes of EMI to promote and guide them? Time will tell. In the meantime, I just bought In Rainbows for £2 and love it I have to say. Particular favorite after 3 listens - 'Jigsaw falling into place', although a throw back to OK Computer, a very welcome one in my opinion.

A few reviews and articles...

Buy In Rainbows

Times Online
Drowned in Sound
AlbumVote
Track by Track @ Rolling Stong

BBC

Vin Diesel to play The Terminator in Terminator 4

The word on the street is that Vin Diesel and Charlie’s Angels director McG are in talks over the new Terminator film set in post-apocalypse America as John O'Connor heads the resistance against Skynet and it's robotic Army.

Free Speech suffers at University of Florida

A University of Florida student, Andrew Meyer, was subdued with a taser because he asked questions "with passion" to 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.

Regardless of the content of what he was saying (some of which I'd like to have heard Kerry answer), the cops unbelievably move in drag him away and tazer him with absolutely no reason whatsoever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlnIkhYCS4w

I think it it's pretty damn disgraceful that the cops feel they have a right to remove someones freedom of speech and expression. How did we come to this?

It seems Meyer is no shrinking violet, he has a history of stunts and skits, as can be seen on his website theandrewmeyer.com , and I'm sure he's not going to be too dissapointed by his new found celebrity status. But even if this was a calculated stunt, and even if he was shooting his mouth off and being a dick, I don't think the police have any business behaving in the way they did here.

More comments at the facebook group...

http://ufl.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5779218759.

Documentarian Errol Morris on conspiracies and the power of nightmares

Eroll Morris - filmaker, photographer and cultural commentator speaks to Adam Curtis, director of “The Power of Nightmares”...

http://www.errolmorris.com/content/interview/believer0406.html