Sin City.

A breath of fresh air. One of the single best movies I've seen in the last few years - and that is saying a lot. In an era where hollow cinematic formula douses the theatre like a urine drenched washcloth, Robert Rodriguez sauces up the screen with an innovative idea surpassed only by his suave pseudo-film noiresque style.

Why are movies going down the drain? Is cinema getting worse? Are we getting more intelligent and demanding as common viewers? Is the formula too easy? Is corporate industry-haggling dominating the inventiveness of the inventors?

Ever since the recent dawn of hardcore CGI, I have to say - I've always been anti. Rodriguez changed my mind.

"When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 19-year-old, I'm about as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench." - John Hartigan