Already posted about this over on FestivalShirts, but it’s so good it deserves another mention here! Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, music by UNKLE, vocals by Ian Asbury.

The X-Men spin off Wolverine has been handed to director Gavin Hood, who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Tsotsi back in 2005.

I’m really looking forward to this as I have always felt that everything good about the X-Men franchise revolved around Wolverine. Yes, Ian McKellin’s Magnito was great, but when it came to the main story it was all Wolverine for me. I loved the first one and especially the Wolverine/Rogue story-line. The way Rogue got pushed aside in X2 hurt the franchise as far as I’m concerned and Bryan Singer’s departure from X3 was the final nail in the coffin. Hence the spin-offs! (Magneto is getting his own film too)

While I haven’t seen any of Hood’s work I’m not happy about this choice. I would have loved to see Bryan Singer come back for the Wolverine film. I think a foreign director making his first big Hollywood film would have been a good choice for Magneto, but for Wolverine they needed Bryan Singer back in his X-Men form.

Still, Hugh Jackman is staring and people seem happy about the choice of Gavin Hood so hopefully it’ll be as good as I want it to be.

I predicted what the talk would be if either Liverpool or Chelsea won this weekend but forgot to consider the draw. Of course, if there’s a draw then the man in black has been stealing the headlines. In amongst all the controversy there have been whispers of a three-horse-race (more if you listen to the Man City hype - but I choose to ignore that for now! :D) but I can’t help but think that the reffing controversy has served to hide Liverpool’s problems.

What Rob Styles did was unforgivable and the fact he has come out and apologised doesn’t make it any easier to take. The fact is Liverpool were the better team and deserved to win. They would have won had Styles not completely lost the plot and gifted Chelsea a way back into the game. Of course they should have won it anyway.

The facts are these, Mourinho got his tactics wrong and Liverpool out played Chelsea in the first half. Out of 5 attempts on goal Liverpool hit the target 3 times and Torres showed some of why Liverpool paid so much money for him. Chelsea had failed to hit the target at all. At half time it was Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea and nobody could argue with the score. The second half started with a re-arranged Chelsea and they caused Liverpool some problems although still failing to hit the target. Liverpool had just began to get back on top in the game when Styles decided he wanted some of the limlight and awarded one of the strangest penalties we’ll see all season. When the pass was played Drogba was in an offside position. Malouda jumped into Finnan making no attempt to play the ball and stopping Finnan from interceting the pass. The ball reached Drogba making him active and the ref blew his whistle. Penalty of course! Not a free out for the offside, not a free out for the foul on Finnan but a penalty for em…because Chelsea wouldn’t be able to hit the target otherwise!

Considering how the game had been going I still felt that Liverpool would be able to get another goal and win the game if they continued as they were. Benitez had other ideas. He brought on Babel. Not a bad decision, Babel was very good off the bench against Villa and decent against Toulouse. Torres had begun to tire up front and Kuyt had been less than effective himself, although had done alot of support work for Torres. Surely Babel would play up front as Riise and Pennant were causing Chelsea’s full backs no end of problems. No, no it was Babel for Pennant.

I felt this killed Liverpool’s rhythm. Babel was off the pace of the game for some time after he came on. The other players looked to attack down the right as they had with Pennant and Babel would miss passes or play wayward ones. Then Benitez decided to mix it up again. Crouch for Riise! Babel went left and Kuyt went right! That was the end of any right-wing option. Babel settled a bit more when he went out left and was unlucky not to win the game himself. Having Babel and Kuyt on the wings didn’t help Crouch get into the game either!

Strange substitutions and team selections like this have blighted Liverpool throughout Benitez’s reign. All the talk is about Styles. His phantom penalty and his torrets yellow cards. I say that Liverpool were good enough to beat Chelsea yesterday and they were good enough to beat Styles too! Benitez did very well to set out his team as he did but for some reason he wasn’t so good when it came to the subs. Having watched Man United loose to Man City and then the Liverpool Chelsea game I am convinced that Liverpool are good enough to win the title this season. The only thing that can stop them now are the crazy subs.

Found this Rambo 4 trailer on youtube.

It looks alright. Stallone does look a little old, but at least Rambo seems to be returning to the anti war killing machine he was intended to be.

Might just have to watch this one after all.

The Bourne Ultimatum is great. Go and see it.

There are three really excellent action sequences and the rest of it is well worth watching too.

That is the last of Robert Ludlum’s books but after seeing Ultimatum I hope they go on to make Eric Van Lustbader’s sequels The Bourne Legacy and The Bourne Betrayal.