Dien's a born again god botherer so that probably has something to do with it.

I'm the one with long hair and the kilt...

The Girl Can't Help It (1956), a good timepiece of the 1950's, with a great soundtrack to it's name. It has struggling agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell), being hired by gangster Marty Murdoch (Edmond O'Brien) to make a star out of his girlfriend Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), trouble is, she can't sing and she's more interested in being a housewife, but Murdoch and Miller won't give in. Director Frank Tashlin used to do cartoons for Warner Bros. There's parts of this that feel like a live-action cartoon, but it's good witty dialogue and it's well shot, but the main highlights are the musical performances from acts of the day like Little Richard, Eddie Fontaine, Julie London, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and Fats Domino!! ;) 4/5

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2nd view) - Partly inspired by Homer's recent review over on empire, I went and bought this the other day, and watched it again for the first time in a few years. I'd forgotten how enjoyable it was, often blackly comic, all the while maintaining a nourish sense of plot and style. There's some fine chemistry between Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer, and it finally afforded Michelle Monaghan a decent role. Very entertaining - 4/5 Mousehunt (8th view) - when this first came out, a number of reviews noted that it was a blend of Laurel and Hardy and Tom and Jerry. As such, it was almost a given that I'd love it. It does offer both the lovable buffoonery of the former and the cartoon violence of the latter, but manages to become its hilarious beast. Nathan Lane and Lee Evans are on fine form, Christopher Walken almost steals the film as a pest exterminator and the rodent of their undoing is a combination of CGI, animatronic and real mice. The laughs come thick and fast, never letting up from start to finish. One of the funniest films of the last 20 years. Special mention must also go to Alan Silvestri's vastly underated score - 5/5

The Bed Sitting Room (1969), Richard Lester's post-apocalyptic black comedy is perhaps one of the most original and little seen British films of the last 40 years. It has some absolutely surreal vignettes holding it together, but it's all a bunch of survivors in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust which lasted 2 Minutes And 28 Seconds (including the peace treaty). One of the survivors, Lord Fortnum of Alamein (Ralph Richardson), finds himself turning into a Bed Sitting Room, due to the fallout dust, then other survivors start to turn into furniture... Based on a play by John Antrobus and Spike Milligan, (who also appears), this is a sci-fi film with a difference, you won't find any modern technology here, it's a bleak utopia with a surreal look and feel to it. But, it's got one HELL of a good cast, which also includes Arthur Lowe, Michael Hordern, Rita Tushingham, Harry Secombe, Jimmy Edwards, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Roy Kinnear, Marty Feldman and Dandy Nichols as Her Majesty, Mrs Ethel Shroake of 393A High Street, Leytonstone. Track it down if you can... :P 4/5

Diary Of A City Priest (1st view) - David Morse stars in this American TV movie, playing the titular priest as he begins his job at an inner city church. I've always liked Morse, on both the big screen and small, and he's really the only reason to watch this, as it's a tiresome and preachy affair - 2/5 The Rock (9th view) - David Morse again here, providing decent support to the lead trio of Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery and Ed Harris, who are all on fine form. Michael Bay has a fine grasp of action, and the script is peppered with memorable and funny lines. I've always loved this flm, it's one of the most stupidly, ridiculously entertaining films ever made. It might not be subtle, it might not be great filmmaking, but it sure is a whole load of fun - 5/5

Batman Begins (2005) Just to get myself in the mood for watching The Dark Knight later. My favourite comic book movie of the last few years. 4/5

Hello, Dolly! (1969), WALL•E's favourite film, and it stands as one of the last, great Hollywood musicals of the old Hollywood regime. Set in New York in 1890, it has sassy matchmaker Dolly Levi (Barbara Streisand), travelling to Yonkers to find a woman for "half-a-millionnaire" Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau), but she also convinces his two workers Cornelius Hackl (Michael Crawford) and Barnaby Tucker (Danny Lockin) to come along to New York, the two clerks get romantically involved, whilst Dolly has ideas of her own for Vandergelder. ;) Directed by the great Gene Kelly, he brings a good visual style to this musical, and he gets the best out of his cast, and though it does look beautiful and the musical numbers are near-perfect, it does feel a bit bloated here and there, but it does make for an enjoyable 2 hours of viewing. Now, if only musicals made these days could capture the style of old ones like this... ;) 4/5