There is this little film you may have noticed around the cinemas at the moment, although if you haven't watched TV, read the newspaper, caught a bus, been to the supermarket, listened to the radio or left a dark room without windows in the last few weeks you may not have.  Spiderman 2 - it's true that there is more than just a little bit of hype around for this film at the moment.
 
For the record, I loved Spiderman as a kid. I watched the cartoon, read the comics and bought the showbag. Furthermore, I absolutely loved the original Spiderman film, the action was heart stopping, the effects were amazing and it nailed Peter's internal struggle over the sacrifices required to be a hero. So with all this in mind, and the almost universal praise for the film, I had fairly high expectations as the lights dimmed in the cinema where we saw the film on Tuesday night.
 
Let me tell you I wasn't disapointed. Not by a long shot, as a matter of fact I am going to go out on a limb and rate it amongst my top ten films. Seriously, this film is an absolute pearler! Everything that made the first film great, it had plus more, the action was mind blowing, the characters emotionally engaging and the storyline satisfying.  I walked out of it with a grin like a chesshire cat, and I am praying for it to be on inflight a couple of times on our trip so I can watch it again. It's probably a bit to early to go revealing spoilers at the moment, but it contains a sequence that was one of the best cinema moments ever in my opinion. I am lost for enough gush words about this film, so if you haven't seen it yet, stop what you are doing now and go for a look. You won't be sorry.
 
While on the topic of films, I have grave, grave concerns about the upcoming film I, Robot. This is a film based on, inspired by or at least has the same title as one of my favourite books ever. It is a piece of literature is as close to my heart as The Lord of the Rings and Dune, so I guess any film made of it is going to concern me. So the fact it stars Will Smith with a big, futuristic looking gun worries me a lot. But I won't wax cynical too much about it now, after all you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. I will wait until I actually see it, and then rest assured I will be lining up behind the rest of the internet geeks to point out it's faults if it's not up to scratch. Asimov, like Tolkien, is sacred ground as far as us nerds are concerned.
 
Moving along to stuff people might actually care about, Karen and I have found a tenant to live in our Magill house whilst we go overseas and move to the coast for a brief sojourn, which is a bit exciting and at the same time a bit strange.  The property manager rang us up on Wednesday arvo to let us know that she had some prospective clients that wanted to look at the house at 8:30 on Wednesday night. So when we got home from work at 6, it was a bit like that Spray and Wipe advert, Karen and I madly rushing around to get the place clean. As a matter of a fact, when they arrived, I was still vacuuming dust out of the exhaust fan grate in the bathroom! Didn't matter though, they were still duely impressed with the house and signed a lease the next day.  One less thing to worry about, while we move house this weekend!