Charlie sheen, irrational fear, and everything you never wanted to know about your mother.

Welcome back. As I'm sure, some of you tuned into the Oscars last week.I wanted let you all know that your favorite critic managed to win himself a three month pass to  "MUBI", by making more accurate predictions than Roger Ebert, go me! Anyway this week I thought I'd change up my review method just a tad and as I reviewed so many movies last week I'm going to review. One Film, "Incendies". One book, "The Zombie Survival Guide"  and finally the best television show of 2010, "Boardwalk Empire". Enjoy.

 The best way I have of describing "Incendies" is this: All of us have mothers, who all had lives, both before , and presumably, after we were born. Assume your mother has died and left you a mystery , and assume to solve it you must delve into the uncomfortable area previously discussed add in a religious genocide as a starting point and you begin to grasp the territory this movie inhabits. It is not a narrative, but a reconstruction of a life that has passed, and a story that could never be told. Haunting stuff.

"The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from The Living Dead" is perhaps the most cutting satire I can recall reading in recent memory. It takes the form of survivalist manifesto and revised history to examine the fear so prevalent in America today. By putting these fears under the blanket of "Zombie " anxiety over the possibility of terrorist attacks and alien invasion, not to mention simple racism ,become even more comical, picture Charlie Sheen folks. The author Max Brooks, is the son of Mel Brooks and his influence is apparent. This is not a book you will find yourself guffawing to, but you may find your self chortling to it, and it will definitely make you smile.(Thanks for the movie recommendation mum!) 

In case you didn't already know, The board game monopoly is based on Atlantic city of the twenties and this is the setting for "Boardwalk Empire." It is the time of vaudeville, the speak-easy and prohibition. The sets and costumes are typical of an HBO production, flawless. The characters are complicated and definitely not two dimensional stand out performances by Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson ,Treasurer/shadow boss of Atlantic City, Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Shroeder a suffragette and Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden, the scariest prohibition agent of all time, make this show sensational. Not to be missed and I can't wait for season two.

Well folks, we have come yet again to the end of my post. See you all next week.