DVD disaster…

A bit of an upset this week, as my DVD player went the way of the dodo last weekend, so I haven’t had a chance to watch anything new. I’m not sure what happened to it, to be honest – I wish I had an exciting story about how I dropped a glass of water over it or how it made a deafening bang and sent up a plume of white smoke, but I don’t. As with a lot of electrical equipment these days, it just decided to stop working all of a sudden for no apparent reason.

But don’t worry – I’ll pick up a new one this weekend, so normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

The Prestige – a bit of a let down

I was really looking forward to seeing The Prestige. It’s directed by Christopher Nolan, the same guy who directed Memento, which I was a huge fan of, so I was expecting great things.

Unfortunately, I was a little bit disappointed with this one. It starts Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as two rival stage magicians who compete against each other to come up with the best illusion.

It’s watchable enough, but my main problem with it was that some of the plot twists just weren’t believable enough. It strays too far into the realms of fantasy for my liking, which is a shame, because I’m usually a big fan of Nolan’s work.