Mirrors: It’s 24 with reflections

Nov 19, 2008 in Movies

We watched another “horror” movie last night, as we are trying to get in the Christmas spirit.
Mirrors, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Amy Smart and Paula Patton, is the story of “an ex-cop and his family become the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.” (According to IMDB anyway)

But it is really 24 with a slightly scary theme, Kiefer Sutherland plays Jack Bauer, no sorry he plays Ben Carson, an troubled ex cop, struggling with his alcoholism.

Within the first 7 minutes we see that Ben did something bad.

And he is taking medication.

Next, we find out that Ben’s new job, as a security guard is in an old derelict shopping center that is built on what used to be a “creepy” location. Oh, now we are wondering what is going to happen?

We are then treated to the knowledge that Ben is either divorced or separated from his wife (Paula Patton), and his kids.

Oh, and Ben lives with his sister (Amy Smart), and we did notice that Ben just walks into his sisters bedroom, without knocking or calling her name out, he just walks in while she is in bed, naked, well no she is wearing clothes, but it would have made the movie 68 times better.

Well, Jack Ben goes to work in the creepy shopping center, at night. Strange thing happen and Ben can see bad thing reflected in the mirrors that don’t seem to be there in the real world.

Lots of 24 like action, acting and gun shooting later, Ben and his family are threatened by the Mirrors, surprise, surprise. Now we don’t want to give too much of the plot away, because there isn’t really much of a plot.

Ben does some 24 style investigation, and fixes everything.
The movie ends with a huh, we thought we were watching 24, where were the terrorists, the bad guy and what’s with the mirrors.

Now this is another American remake of an Asian movie. We have not seen the original, Korean movie Into The Mirror, but we are guessing that Jack Bauer is not in it and it is probably a lot better that Mirrors/24.


Beatrice Dalle Wants Your Baby!

Nov 14, 2008 in Movies

Remember Beatrice Dalle, the beautiful, slightly crazy babe from 1986 movie Betty Blue.


Well we do, we must have watched that movie a dozen times back then, it was emotional, sexy, and even funny. If you haven’t seen it go and rent it, but be warned it is in French, so you will need to read the subtitles.

Beatrice has just made a new movie, “à l’intérieur” Inside and it is good.

We love horror movies, or anything that gives us some kind of emotion when watching it. Be that emotion, scared, happy, sad etc. The only emotion we don’t like from movies is the feeling of being ripped off or lost, because we can never get those 90 minutes of our life back, thanks The Happening, Wanted, War of the Worlds etc.

Anyway about the movie, it starts off with a car crash.

Four months later “Sarah” the pregnant driver of one of the cars is told to come to hospital the next day to have her baby.
That night Beatrice turns up at Sarah’s house and will do anything to get that baby, and we mean anything.


We will leave the, what happened next to your imagination.

We don’t like to give SPOILERS for movies, so we won’t.

Needless to say Beatrice is slightly nuts, and has an unhealthy obsession with scissors and pretty much anything sharp. Lots of blood in this movie, and even a couple of scenes that had us thinking “ouch”.


The movie is well shot; it’s dark and tormenting, in a good way. Beatrice plays a crazy very well, and Alysson Paradis who plays Sarah is pretty good also. It has some nice twists in it too. Overall it is a good movie and well worth the rental cost.

Again remember this is a French movie, so read the subtitles. Well that is until Hollywood remakes it.

Read what we think about remakes here.


One of our driller bees is missing!

Nov 12, 2008 in Comedy, Serious Stuff

Well it seems the drilling is all for nothing. We inspected the hole today and nothing, just a hole. No furniture, no TV or anything.

The bees are nowhere to be seen, we even checked after lunch, still nothing. So it looks like the whole drilling thing is just for fun. Great now we have a big fucking hole in our garden table, for no damn reason, thanks bees.

We inspected the rest of the garden, still no bloody bees, but we did find this.

Lots and lots of red ants, building a new house in the bushes.

Now we don’t believe in murder, unless we are in one of those, kill or be killed situations, like Battle Royale. So we are going to leave them alone, well alone. We think they will just move away once the have done whatever it is they are doing.

These ants do bite, and it stings when they do, they didn’t attack us this time but look how pissed off the little fuckers look, when we were only taking pictures.

We kind of felt like the ant paparazzi, expecting a big ant to come round the corner, punch us in the face and break our camera, before driving off in a blacked out SUV.

But that didn’t happen; instead they just kept staring at us and trying to bite us.

They are clever little buggers, look how they are holding the leaves together, while the construction team glue them together from the inside.

We are wondering what is inside there, maybe they have kidnapped the bees, and are holding them hostage, for a TV and some furniture.


Driller Bees, Update!

Oct 31, 2008 in Comedy, Serious Stuff

The little buzzy bastards are still drilling.

If you look at the previous post you can see the progress made in just 24 hours, by the little mind controlling bees.

Here is a picture of one of the NTS cats staring blankly at a driller bee.

We tried to feed the cat just after we took this picture; but she just kept staring at the bee.

We also noticed that the bees do take a lunch break, at 12:05 this afternoon we could not find any of the furry little drillers, and the cat was now hungry.

We still don’t know where the bees are trying to go, or what they are looking for, maybe bee treasure, we just don’t know yet.

But we will update you when we do.

They came back after lunch and started drilling again.


Driller Bees from Outer space!

Oct 30, 2008 in Comedy, Serious Stuff


OK, so they may not be from outer space, they may just be from our garden but they do like to drill.

And we are not sure if they are actually bees either, they don’t make honey and they can’t sting you, but they could drill a hole into your brain.

We are not sure if they are looking for oil in our garden table, if they find some we are claiming ownership rights.

This is the hole the little fuckers are making today.


So far we have seen three of them together, conspiring against us, we think.

We are not so worried about the furniture; we just want to know what the hell the little furry bastards are doing.
All day they drill, and at 4pm they stop and fly away.

Why 4pm, is that dinner time in bee world?

This is a close up of one of the alien bees.


They do not fear us, or cats.

Our cats just sit and watch them drilling, probably waiting for their share in the oil.

Are the bees controlling the minds of our cats?

Cats as we all know will chase anything that flies, birds, butterflies, 747’s and De Lorean cars. So why not chase the bees?

Is it alien mind control, some kind of force field or do cats know that bees taste like shit?

You know the way cats look at the bowl of milk, then look up at you with a “this is not fresh” look on their face. Well maybe it is the same with bees.

These and other bee related questions may never be answered, unless they do take over the world.

Bastard Alien Bee