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I've been a proper intellectual this weekend, renting not one but three 'intellectual' movies. Well, intellectual in the sense that they don't star someone from Saturday Night Live or satirise a popular genre such as horror (not that there is anything at all wrong with that, there is a time and place for everything!).

So first of all we had Lord of War with Nic Cage (who incidently has not 1 but 9 new movies coming over the next year or two), all about arms smuggling. I love Nicolas Cage - it's so good to see him on form, he's brilliant in nearly everything he does. The other night Leaving Las Vegas - I'd forgotten how amazing he could be.

Then came an evening with Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence - which wasn't as incredible as I expected it to be. Sure it was interesting and violent and you can't fault the cast, but it sort of bubbled under for a few hours then fizzled out. I expect more from David Cronenberg.

This afternoon we settled down to The Constant Gardener. I loved it. Rachel Weisz really proved her worth as the spunky wife of a diplomat who gets herself murdered while trying to uncovered corruption and greed in Africa. Very sad though. I think it should have been in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars too.

And I've decided to get http://www.wondywomanfilmgeek.blogspot.com back up and running as it's been sorely neglected for months now.

Film is my first love and I will not turn my back on it!