THE POSTMAN’S WHITE NIGHTS <not rated>

Russia has a lot to answer for so far this year. Fell asleep about ten minutes in.

COLIN HAY: WAITING FOR MY REAL LIFE ★★★★

What a wonderful, warm-hearted documentary this is. I was a big fan of Men at Work when I was a kid, and re-discovered Colin Hay’s solo work through the Garden State soundtrack. A perfect mix of retrospective, and what Colin Hay’s life is like now. Truly a successful artist. Go listen to his new album now, I know I will be.

VICTORIA ★★★

I was hoping for great things from this film after having heard good thing. It wasn’t bad, but maybe I’d set expectations a little too high. It’s about a girl who’s new to Berlin meeting a group of guys as she leaves a club one night. It was certainly an impressive film in that it’s done in one long take for the entire story, and given the numerous locations, including inside cars and elevators, and shots outside during the day and the night, I regularly wondered how they did it. However, ultimately I had a hard time empathising with the main characters, and not feeling particularly involved when things did or didn’t go their way.