The George Lite Zone

To show what a caring nation they are, the South African Football League decided to organise a peace conference ahead of the next World Cup. Fantastic, an opportunity to let the doves of peace fly across the African Savannah. The trouble is that the doves in question were shot down in the night before they could so much as squawk. At least the one baring the Dalai Lama's visa was. Apparently it's not in South Africa's best interest to allow Tibet's spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate in for a conference that had the blessing of the Nobel committee. Thabo Masebe, spokesman for President Kgalema Motlanthe said that "South Africa thinks that, if the Dalai Lama attended the conference, the focus would shift away from the World Cup.". What the smeg has the world cup to do with peace? It has got an awful lot to do with commercialism and high finance. Which dovetails quite nicely with the South African government playing kiss ass with the Chinese authorities. At leas...

In the film "The Big Nothing", nothing is as it seems. Scenes that look like they were shot in the States where actually filmed on the Isle of Man and in Canada. Bizarre. As to the movie itself, this is a top draw black comedy. David Schwimmer plays an unemployed teacher who joins forces with a scammer (played by Simon Pegg) and his girlfriend (Alice Eve) in a blackmailing scheme. Excellent performances by David Schwimmer and über geek Simon Pegg are surpassed by John Polito's inspired Columboesque detective role. I won't mention any more of the plot, not wanting to give anything away, but it's worth watching to hear the Rammstein track used on the soundtrack alone. The pick of the extras is Simon Pegg's "Pegcam" featurette. Shame it didn't go on longer though. 8/10