Theatrical playing season was relatively short, and finding a cinema that was playing A Scanner Darkly as hard as chewing a bit of jerky that could last well over a decade from a nuclear fall out.

Taking the rotoscopic action out of the equation is to ignore one of the main reasons for walking up to the box office they some times use when they're not using the Candy Bar as the place to flog the tickets. A marvellous looking film, trippy in a most passive way, the scramble suit and the effects of drug use definitely working the bean right down to the bone.

Both Robert Downey, Jr. and Woody Harrelson's characters find themselves rambling at various times with the strict sense of paranoia as a sheer motivator of their thoughts. Kind of like watching that which makes the spoken word all the more enjoyable. Like a poetry slam without the need to have a shot of knock out juice in the hands of the judges.

 

Double shot of it all, on November 16, at least on the cinemas anyway. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and The Prestige. Two fairly polar opposite films. One a comedy, the other a sci-fi thriller on the tag, "A Friendship, That Became a Rivalry... A Rivalry, That Became a Battle."

Which, can't be too far from the scene of Escapists #5. Now, there are only two issues left including this one, and despite forgetting where in the run the other issues are, would seem like a terrible shame to miss out picking up this issue. Really should stop doing this.

For those who step inside the store during the run of its season, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, still flinging out the free passes for those over the age of 18.