...is a film that just might be great.  I saw it yesterday.  Bloody as hell, extremely violent, but then things start to fade and talk comes to the fore.  The final moments (a fine actor telling a story) are extraordinary.  It gestures towards apocalypse, towards the unravelling of everything, and if you listen carefully to the final words, they deliver a message even bleaker than what's gone before. 

And yet it's also completely entertaining, gripping from first to last.  I eagerly await There Will Be Blood, but No Country For Old Men is a hell of a thing.

In a depressing segue, Heath Ledger was originally offered the Josh Brolin role.  He turned it down to take some time off.  What a pity, eh?  What a stupid, pointless death.

And with jaw agape, I've so far read two glowing reviews of The Vertical Hour at the Royal Court.  If you pay money to find out what a load of tedious, irritating horseshit it is, don't say I didn't warn you.