Sweeping Strings

And as one the altar boys chorused 'Ain't that the truth'.

I last saw them in '91. Good show, as much a theatrical performance as live gig.

Transporter 2 - the Stath unleashes his 'certain set of skills' on more Eurotrash baddies in another enjoyably silly actioner. Also starring Jason Flemyng and an arguably slumming it Matthew Modine.

I'm off to this on Sunday night - I went last year and had a great night ... nostalgic air-punching singalongs aplenty. Also, I saw The Bowie Experience for the second time earlier in the month and that was also a good time. Got the Pet Shop Boys coming up in June, too.

Can't really recall a proper 'Bond as bon viveur' moment since 'The brand was questionable Sir, so I took the liberty of choosing something else' in Daylights. Probably be regarded as elitist and unrelatable nowadays.

There was an April Fool's that Bond's smoking in past movies was going to be digitally removed for future Blu-Ray releases (but villains smoking would be left in).

Or 'close but no triple gold-banded Morlands', to go back to Fleming.

It coming down to between him and Craig last time round and having The Cold Light Of Day, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., MI : Fallout, Argylle and The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare on his resume ... has there ever been a more 'close, but no cigar' actor when it comes to Bond than Cavill?

That genre's posters are definitely ... of a sort, shall we say. You're not wrong about the money, Andy ... Hawk's budget was £600,000, which even back then would've been low.

The finest line is probably when (after escaping the tiger hunt) Bond is pulled from the river onto a cruise boat and asked 'Are you with our group?' to which Moore responds (in a tone considerably drier than he is) ... 'No ma'am, I'm with the economy tour'.

'That ought to keep you in curry for a few weeks'.

Hawk is more of a PG-rated experience than the likes of Deathstalker, if memory serves. John Terry's arguable career highlight was as Felix Leiter in The Living Daylights.

Bingo! Another channel called Talking Pictures TV has Silent Rage (an apparently utterly preposterous Chuck Norris action/sci-fi/horror number) on tomorrow night, so I'll record that too .

Could well be part of another 'Saturday night double feature' this weekend, if I can find a suitable second flick.

The girl directly behind what I'm going to go ahead and call the Walrus Dog looks like she's just remembered that she left the stove on or something.

Amen, brother. Amen.

This is on the Legend channel tonight and having had a site devoted to Brit horror movies tell me that 'there's a lot of blood and quite a lot of nudity', the Tivo has been duly set to record it -

Had their first 5 albums and caught them live once, but 'drifted away' from them after Yield.

What about the other Tom ... Mr Hanks? I regard him as a 'marquee name'.

He's a hoot in Righteous Gemstones.

Maybe this time round, they'll be resistant to Earth germs. EEP!

Having given us probably the ultimate 'benevolent alien' movie in E.T. I'd certainly be interested in Spielberg bringing us one about the opposite sort.

The Lost City - comedy adventure starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt with shades of Romancing The Stone. When romantic adventure novelist Bullock is kidnapped by billionaire Radcliffe because he's convinced (having included it in one of her books) that she can help him locate the 'Crown Of Fire' artifact, her regular cover model Tatum mounts a rescue mission with the the help of ex-Navy SEAL 'extractor' Pitt (a hilarious, scene-stealing turn). Some distractions (Sandy's Botox is very noticeable at times and a subplot with her literary agent also attempting to find her probably could've been excised to no great loss) aside, a nicely fun escapist watch.

Only guest on Little Fluffy Clouds I know of was Joni Mitchell, who features in a sample talking about her childhood taken from an interview she gave.

Co-producers of Doctor Who now, too. All hail our mouse overlords.