Friends With Benefits

Any opportunity to see Justin Timberlake especially on the big screen is a chance I'll take, so it wasn't hard to get me to buy a ticket for this; "He's Just Not That In to You" styled Romcom. His co-star is one Mila Kunis who looks a lot more fun and less fiendish than when I last saw her on Black Swan.... Well mainly less fiendish.

This film needs no tagline as the title is essentially the plot.
Mila Kunis plays wide eyed Jamie (Pun intended), a Executive Recruiter who is recruited to recruit Art Directer Dylan (Timberlake). Dylan currently works for a small internet company but the people at GQ want him to come and work for them and its Jamies job to convince him its the right move to make. If he's successful he will have to up and relocate from Los Angles to New York, it must not be much of a choice cause he soon relents to the move on a trail basis.

Time goes on and as Jamie just so happens to be the only person Dylan knows after a few weeks in a city filled with roughly 8million people.... one thing leads to another. A semi drunk evening as friends leads to an evening of being naked friends doing naked things. Suffice to say its an awkward morning after as Jamie and Dylan do the avoiding dance with each other. They soon however talk it out and decide to let it happen again, so naturally it happens again. If it didn't the movie would have to be called "One Night Stand"

Throw in a bit of family drama on both sides, neither of which is necessarily believable or sympathetic but without them they'd have to cut the word "Friends" from the title. This movie was a comic relief from from all the serious movies that are out right now.
The nudity wasn't over the top - but I still wouldn't see it with anyone other than a close friend - and the jokes we're memorable enough for you to laugh all over again when discussing it.
I guess all that's left to say is that every movie has it's benefits and for me in this case it was Timberlake all.....all of Timberlake.

TV: The Tudors

I was fortunate enough to catch the 1st episode on BBC One as they decided to re show every single episode. I personally enjoy period drama, though I was always sceptical when it came to dealings in the 1500's. But as one episode followed another leaving a trail of deceit, murder, bribery and betrayal I had hardly realised I was hooked.

The show follows history and fills in blank spots as Henry VIII reigns over England and looks at how he meets and marries and moves on from one wife to the next, totalling his famousness for having six wives. Jonathan Ryhs Meyers puts on a good British accent as he portrays the King of England himself. A smooth talking ladies man who is poised at the edge of greatness dealing with threats of war from other countries as well as war within his own walls. Everyone has their own agenda and wants a minute in the kings ear to influence him towards their own beliefs. He has his own problems as he goes through wives on a hunt to sire a male heir and find a woman who truly understands him and the burden he carries.
That all sounds well and good but there's two sides to every story as we also get to see a childish, brutish, egotistical and power hungry man sit on the throne and call himself King. Regardless of which we grow with him and his problems and watch as people leave him and join him or in the case of Charles Brandon The 1st Duke of Suffolk (Henry Cavill) stay with him from start to finish as by then end they're able to look back on the good times as old friends.

The show is really well portrayed and they do their best to water down all the political and religious goings on of the times. Be warned however to not watch this one with parents no matter how educational you try to convince them it is, as it's filled with nudity and sex scenes some views may find offensive or crude. After all we all love a bit of drama.
Long Live The King.