Since Walk Hard, I've pretty much gorged myself on film. I've seen six movies all at Vue Gunwharf Quays, helped greatly by their Orange Wednesdays 2 for 1 scheme and I will now attempt to review them all. Crazy? Maybe.

First up was Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I saw this and then No Country for Old Men - perhaps not a very clever idea. Anyway, Sweeney Todd is a film version of the stage musical by Stephen Sondheim. Therefore everyone sings what they'd be better off saying. This doesn't get old quite as quickly as you may expect, and leaves you plenty of time to love/hate Johnny Depp's singing in the title role. The songs are actually quite funny, despite their gory subject matter, but the best is a duet by Depp and Helena Bonham Carter (acting in her fifth film with hubby Tim Burton in the Director's chair) as Mrs. Lovett a pie shop owner. With cameos from Sacha Baron Cohen (very good) and Anthony Head (blink and you'll miss him), plus the likes of Alan Rickman and Timothy Spall in bigger, creepier roles Sweeney Todd is bloody good, in every sense, but not for the squeamish. 

Minutes later and I'm sat in front of beautiful Texan landscapes as Tommy Lee Jones (ageing local sheriff trying to make sense of a changing world) is on the trail of Josh Brolin (wisecracking opportunist crook) who is being hunted by Javier Bardem (the scariest man - and haircut - of the year)because Brolin stole a case of drug-money. This is a Coen brothers film, and as such requires a bit of interpretation. This is great. I'm not sure if I've seen a Coen brothers film before, least not all the way through, but I like them. I ought to see more of their work. 

So, an unsettling, nerve-jangling, blood-letting evening, all in all.

Perhaps ignoring the headrush of seeing two films back-to-back in the cinema, perhaps encouraging it, I saw Cloverfield and Juno the following Saturday. 

Each recommended by almost all the critics, Cloverfield and Juno share an odd sort of anti-Hollywood sentiment. Cloverfield is a relatively small budget monster movie which focuses on the human story without skimping on the CGI. Whilst Juno couldn't be more independent if it wore a t-shirt with 'Fuck you I'm independent' written on it in big homemade lettering. 

Cloverfield is best known for being the film with THAT mind-blowing trailer. Y'know the one where a party is interrupted by the Statue of Liberty's severed head crashing into the buildings and streets outside. This was just the starting point for fans of Lost-creator J. J. Abram's work. His fans are a different breed. They will pick apart and analyse every snippet of anything even rumoured to be connected to one of J. J's projects. So, if you wanted to, you could follow the big fact hunt for the back-story for Cloverfield. You'd encounter a suspicious slush drinks company, an eco-terrorist organisation and about half a dozen Myspace accounts for the party-going characters. 

I followed all this second-hand, through CloverfieldClues, after I was pointed to the website 1-18-08.com, one of the key parts of the massive online marketing campaign.

It lives up to much of its own hype, and if you've seen it, you too can ponder the possibility of a sequel! I like the idea of a fake documentary which is interrupted during filming by another attack. Perhaps the monster's still alive; perhaps it left something deadly in its wake.

Juno, as you'll have guessed from my earlier uber-blog is a pretty big deal. I wanted to see it almost a month before its ful...

I am Legend is definitely worth your money. And i'm looking forward to Walk Hard (out Jan 18th), Cloverfield (out Feb 1st) and Juno (out Feb 8th) here's why I think those things.

I am Legend stars Will Smith as a scientist in the future. Not as far in the future as in I, Robot and without the robots. Instead its about the last man on Earth, and his fight to save humanity. 

Based on the book of the same name by Richard Matheson, its already been made into a film twice, with at least as many more attempts since it was first published in 1954.

This new version rocks. Its visual style and plot do lend itself to comparisons to Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, so much so that the London-based film's release delayed this New York-based blockbuster, but this is a compliment. Watching one won't spoil the other, and when I am Legend is out on DVD, along with 28 Weeks Later, you could make one hell of a film night!

Will Smith is the film, so if you hate him (but how could you?) you'll hate this. But if you hate him for Fresh Prince, then worry not, because although funny in parts, I am Legend is about the tougher sides of humanity. Loneliness and loss. Despite this, you will scavenge something in deserted New York to love, you'd have to be a dummy not to.

Walk Hard is to musician biopics (Ray, and Walk The Line more specifically) what Anchorman was to TV News. At least i think it is. I haven't seen it yet but the trailer sold me before it had even finished. If you can't laugh at the prospect of Paul "It's called Sex Panther" Rudd (who was great in Knocked Up last year) as John Lennon then I can't help you. The best bit is that he's not even in the main cast, so the quality of the humour in the main story's gotta be high. 

If you're worried about music being belittled in Walk Hard then all i can say is - Jack White as Elvis

February kicks off with the latest film from J J Abrams, the mind, nay genius, behind Alias and Lost. The fact that it was only recently named Cloverfield, after a seemingly never-ending list of names were put to it, just proves the level of work thats gone into this movie. Add to that the massive online advertising campaign, which if you played along could take you from a Japanese drinks company to a will-they-won't they couple in New York, and you have a recipe for box office success. If you like the sound of this so far, take note that i haven't mentioned a single actor or anything like a plot yet. There are no majors stars in Cloverfield (but they will be stars soon enough) because J J didn't want you to be able to guess who'll survive. Which leads me to plot. Actually, the trailer does it better than I could, so click Cloverfield in the box on the right. 

Last but by no means least (which says A LOT) is Juno. This is being dubbed 'The Little Indie That Could' and 'The Next Little Miss Sunshine', but from the looks of the trailer and the surrounding buzz, Juno is anything but little. And despite the influence of über-evil media mogul Rupert Murdoch via indie-seeker Fox Searchlight, Juno has heart. That's the work of tonnes of people but the ones you'll hear of most are:

Ellen Page, as the eponymous, wisecracking teen - last seen in Hard Candy but more widely seen as Shadowcat in X-men 3 (to misquote Vinnie Jones' phallic foe "She's a juggernaut, bitch!")

Diablo Cody, Juno-scribe, ex-stripper and blogger-with-something-interesting-to-say, she is who to thank when you have another set of quotables to add to your pile from Walk Hard.

Jason Reitman, Director. He's the guy behing Thank You For Smoking and he's worked on two Arnie films (which ones? only the best ones. what Terminator? no, silly. Kindergarten cop and Twins - don't worry he wasn'...