Just Do It - The Movie

Interesting stuff:

Just Do It is an exciting new feature documentary film that follows the mischievous and risky world of UK climate activists.

In early 2009, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Emily James began filming the clandestine activities of several groups of environmental civil disobedient activists in the UK. Allowed unprecedented access, her footage shows us the people behind the politics, providing the often overlooked human element to their story as we watch them take on the combined forces of global capitalism, run-away climate change and those pesky metropolitan police!

Their adventures will entertain, illuminate and inspire, whilst inciting you to get off your arse and change the world.

Currently in post-production and set for release in early 2011, Just Do It is a film pushing boundaries. It is an experiment in crowd-funding, group production and community-engaged documentary filmmaking. Read on to find out more…

The Tropic of Cancer, from Bangladesh to Burma

A few friends recommended this program to me and I found it quite alarming, but in a way it confirms what I know about the plight on the Chin people already, and reaffirms my burden for the people , and why I started the Burma Orphanage Project. Have a watch...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s5wzp/Tropic_of_Cancer_Bangladesh_to_Burma

Simon Reeve continues his epic journey around the world following the tropic of Cancer, the northern border of the tropics region.

This episode takes Simon through Bangladesh and on a perilous covert journey into Burma, where western journalists are banned.

In Bangladesh, Simon sails down the mighty Padma River and visits fishermen who use trained otters to drive fish into their nets. Further on he sees the river banks crumbling before his eyes - increased river erosion is thought to be caused by global climate change - and in the capital Dhaka he meets some of the millions of child workers.

From North East India, Simon treks through jungles and across rivers into Burma to meet the Chin people - an ethnic group who are brutalised and oppressed by the Burmese government.

After travelling around the tropic of Capricorn and the equator, this series completes Simon's trilogy of journeys exploring the amazing tropics region with his toughest, longest, most ambitious challenge yet.

Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince

As a self-confessed fan of Harry Potter, I have managed to restrain myself this year and avoided the hysteria surrounding the release of the latest film. That being the case probably because I all too eagerly got far too hysterical about following Andy Murray during the recent Wimbledon grand slam; but as one British home-grown “near” champion consumed my thoughts, now another, if not of a slightly different calibre, rapidly approaches. The main distinction and one I need to remind myself of, is one hero is of course complete fiction, and the other, real flesh and blood. But controversy may ensue when contemplating whether it was actually complete fiction that Murray could of ever of won Wimbledon in the first place..!

This will be the sixth film in the popular Harry Potter film series and directed by David Yates, the director of the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Producers: David Heyman and David Barron are accompanied by the return of Steve Kloves, screenwriter of the first four films (but not the fifth). Thank you, Wikipedia.

I really would like to go see this HP at the IMAX 3D in Manchester if anyone fancies it? Due to the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 4-week commitment, the film will instead be released in IMAX 3D on 29 July 2009 – one for diaries? So far, the film has received very positive reviews from critics and I am interested to know what you think.