Incredible.

Not a whole lot of this:

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So basically it’s very very very good. Solid 9/10 good.

Who would you say is your favourite actor of all time?

What’s that? Alex Pettyfer from Stormbreaker?

Fair enough. Probably wouldn’t have been my choice but fine. What about a favourite actress? Remember, you can choose anyone at all.

What? April Pearson from the first and second seasons of Skins? Are you certain?

OK. Well, you’ll probably like Tormented, a new British horror film that’s out on the 22nd of May. It’s about some teenagers who bully some guy and then he dies and comes back and kills them or something. And they have sex a few times. In the trailer.

If I was really putting the effort in, I’d upload the trailer to this website and then link to that here but I’m not in the mood to be honest. If you really care, Google.

If you’re less interested in Tormented, and more interested in Alex Pettyfer and April Pearson, you can watch a clip of them in the movie at Rotten Tomatoes and let’s just say it’s a scene without dialogue.

I woke up very early yesterday morning to go and see Star Trek. I was excited, but not that excited.

I got the tube because I thought there would probably be quite bad traffic on the bus at that time. I fell asleep for a bit and then bought one of those little non-Red Bull energy drinks (62p, Tesco Haymarket) to keep me awake.

I crossed the road to avoid this:

Two Vitamin Water vans giving away free Vitamin Water and playing George Michael at full volume. It was 9:30 in the morning. Why can’t the people over at Vitamin Water just accept the fact that no-one likes Vitamin Water? I have worked in two offices that have both been given LITERAL CRATES of the stuff in the hope that they’ll mention it to their friends or something. I have been given a handful of bottles on the street on THREE SEPERATE OCCASIONS. And I still hate it. Give up.

They had bacon sandwiches at the screening and I really wanted one but I felt a bit sick from the energy drink so I hung back.

Star Trek… is incredible.

It looks amazing, it’s verrrrrry exciting, it’s solidly original, it’s not just for the fans, it’s not not for the fans, it’s almost perfect. It’s got motherfucking Tyler Perry in it.

JJ Abrams has officially redeemed himself for Cloverfield at this point. Well done JJ, have a sticker.

It contains the word ‘fucking’ 10 minutes in. To be fair, it’s in the context of a Beastie Boys song, but still, that’s pretty transgressive for the Trek.

The best thing about it is the cast. There are no big stars but not in a sort of look-at-us-we’ve-got-no-big-stars way (*cough* Cloverfield *cough*) because they’re all the sort of people who make you say ‘Oh, cool, it’s him from…’ when they pop up in movies:

Left to right:
Chris Pine from Bottle Shock
Zachary Quinto from Heroes
John Cho from Harold & Kumar
Karl Urban from Lord of the Rings
Simon Pegg from Hot Fuzz (Americans don’t know him as well as we do)
Zoe Saldana from Vantage Point
Anton Yelchin from Charlie Bartlett
Winona Ryder from the 90s.

In other news, this is so good we’ve added it to our Best of 2009 list. Go see it.