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X-Men: First Class this time. Just saw it, and I am on an absolute high about it. Really, I have no idea how good this movie was. I suspect it wasn't all that clever, just a fairly cliché re-tread of old ground, and I am about as fed up of alternate Cuban Missile Crises as I am of zombies right now, but it was still the most fun I've had in a cinema for a long time. Why? Why, nerdery, of course! One or two people here know that I've loved X-Men since I was a tiny sprog and used to watch the 80s cartoons with my dad even before I was really old enough to know what was going on, and I have always loved the franchise. This movie pushed all

Bullying is dreadful whatever form it takes. I'm sure this big dA support for Spirit Day is making a lot of LGBT kids sitting at home with their computers feel stronger and less alone, but how rotten for everyone else out there to be told that because what they're being bullied for isn't trendy, no one cares. In the UK, we have Anti-Bullying Week that covers being bullied for being smart or working hard or being ginger or anything else that kids can be cruel about. No one's excluded from the support you get there. How about we all go and show the love to them instead?

So apparently this journal is all about my trips to the cinema these days, but this one definitely warrants it. Inception is an absolutely breathtaking movie. After a few big CG tricks at the start it settles into some seriously incredible and in some ways surprisingly understated action sequences, but you're really not going to see this film for the spectacle, it's all about the mental workout. It's not too hard to follow the plot, but following what people are saying is pretty much impossible the first time round. The beauty of the script and the directing is that it doesn't matter. They'll explain a rule of the world and you'll get the g