Well, just got back from Cinema Days where I got to see about twelve upcoming films and seem to have developed eye-strain and over-tiredness. Perhaps the two are connected?

The films varied in quality, though there were no truly outstanding movies. Some were quite good (Ghost Town, Clubbed, Lakeview Terrace, Easy Virtue, Slumdog Millionaire, Inkheart), some were okay but a tad disappointing given their cast and potential (What Just Happened, Body of Lies) and others were so dreadful that I wouldn't recommend them to anyone (the worst of which was the deeply unpleasantly bizarre Surveillance - a gruesome so-called thriller for which I'd worked out the twist and lost interest in after ten minutes - directed by Jennifer Lynch. The film does nothing to change my opinion that Lynch is a lousy film-maker whose work is purely a pale immitation of her father's - so doubly damned.

Danny Boyle, Kris Marshall and a few others turne dup to promote their projects, but over-all there were not the big names we could once attract to the event and if it hadn't been for the social side, it might not have been worth going on a potential-revenue level.

Over the next few weeks I'm hosting a couple of Film Education screenings and there'll be a few more press outings - but I'm hoping I can get a few deadline sout of the way and buckle down to generating some more outlets and getting some more finances sorted pre-Christmas. Both are do-able if I can get some balance to the schedule restored.

Oh and after the gosh-darnit Vice Presidential debate of last week which was a tenth of the fun of the superior Saturday Night Live sketches to date, it'll be interesting to see if the Obama-McCain second round raises my blood-pressure or only an eyebrow. Be careful, it's a lipstick jungle out there...