Good evening readers.

Where to begin…

I have recently been introduced to www.watch-movies.net where I have so far seen two movies for free, that’s right ladies and gentlemen you too can watch movies for free. Ok, it’s basically a youtube kinda site purely for films and by all accounts works pretty darn well.

The first I had taken to watching was “Last Days” which unfortunately didn’t get me as excited as the website upon I was watching it. Michael Pitt stars in what I can only describe as a painful 1hr and 40 minutes, the premise of Last Days is the downfall of a jaded drug addicted rock star who is basically representing the last days of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain (although for the purpose of the film the look alike is merely coincidental).

I think the first approximately 30 minutes has no dialogue, it may have been longer and I had fallen asleep who knows, instead it follows the Cobain like statue of a depressed man wondering around not doing much. When dialogue finally kicks in you start to realise why they left it so long for the words are few and far between, and leaving something to be desired… then eventually some rather moving footage of Kurt (sorry, “Blake“) performing a solo track which rightly or wrongly reminded me of Where Did You Sleep Last Night… oh and then he kills himself.

After this I watched the more light hearted “A Mighty Wind”, this I had got very excited about seeing for I had wished to have seen it for many a year. It is Spinal Tap meets Waiting for Guffman and Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean all appear so it’s got off to a good start in my book.

Producer Irving Steinbloom had passed away leaving his children to organise a tribute concert in his name, a fairly simple plot enabling us to explore the trials and tribulations of the three main acts involved. The first of which being The Folksmen, who take the opportunity to make a comeback and are most famous for their only hit “Old Joe’s Place”… lyrically all this and their other songs are very daft, but musically you’d be none the wiser as to their integrity (as with Spinal Tap).

Next up are the Main Street Singers a nine piece who in my mind are reminiscent of real life folk group the Carter Family, their manager a self styled comedian famed for coining the phrase “Wha’ Happened” which to be fair I probably found far more funny than I probably should have done (think “is he ‘avin a laff” from Ricky Gervaise Extras).

Then thirdly we have Mitch n Mickey whose initial relationship is most easily related to that of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and June Carter or Sonny Bono and Cher, and therefore an obvious focal point for the highlight of the evening concert (I started almost believing the whole thing was for real!). Mitch Cohen (played by Eugene Levy) had become an emotional wreck and although it is unclear as to if he will… he does pull through to provide the performance the crowd were there to see - including the kiss that had caused so much tension during a particular song, but was almost as important to the history of make belief folk as that of when Dylan plugged in his electric guitar in real life albeit for different reasons.

So yeah, the mockumentary approach similar to that of the aforementioned Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman was a perfect way to explore the fictitious world of three very different made up folk acts and having discovered it is available to buy from play.com for merely £3.99 it will be one I shall purchase for sure.

…and on that note, it leads me on to where to end, for now I think this is it.

Good night readers.