The Artist wowed audiences at the famous Cannes films festival. The team behind this year's Leeds Film Festival fought hard to make sure it closed Leeds Film Festival and good god, I'm glad they won the battle. The Artist is a truly beautiful and breath taking film.
Director Michael Hazanavicius took a big risk making a black and white silent feature film In a world were 3D is ruining cinema and Michael Bay is making over the top, explosion filled rubbish films, but in cinema risks often pay off.
The Artist tells the story of George Valentin, a huge silent film star in 1927, who becomes worried that talkies are starting to emerge in "HollywoodLand" and there will be no place for him. Peppy Miller becomes the next big thing after taking some advice from George. George tries to produce his own silent films in a talkie world and fails, he then fades away, thinks about suicide on more then one occasion before Peppy herself helps George out in a way he never thought possible.
Brilliant... the first thing I thought when leaving Hyde Park Picture House after The Artist had finished. I was actually a bit upset that it had finished, I could of sat and watched it all night. Not many films have that effect on me.
The acting is wonderful, all the actors had to be on top form as this was a silent film, dialogue was not used so the actors had to tell us the story through mostly body language. The direction is amazing, sometimes I forgot I was in 2011, it made me feel like a 20's cinema goer. George has a pet dog, which almost stole the show, its a brilliant piece of acting by the dog, I guarantee the dog will make you laugh, laugh a lot.
I urge you all to go see The Artist, a few days ago I was writing down my top ten films of the year and The Artist shoots straight to the top of that list.
The Artist is released in the UK on December 30th and please all of you go and see it.
Sunday the 6th November 2011, Leeds Town Hall is again playing host to a very special screening, tonight Take Shelter is showing.
I dont know what attracted me to this film, After The Happening I have learned to avoid films where the weather plays a large part but as soon as I picked the Leeds Film Festival programme up and saw the section on Take Shelter I knew I wanted to see it. I really don't know why, I just felt like I needed to see it, and I was not disappointed.
Take Shelter is a powerful, thought provoking, wonderful piece of cinema. The story? Curtis, played brilliantly by Michael Shannon, has dreams and visions of an impeding storm. Curtis becomes so obsessed with his dreams that he builds a storm shelter in his back garden. Curtis' obsession with his shelter threatens his marriage, his job and his friendship with both his best mate and his brother. Curtis seeks help with his doctor, a councillor and psychiatrist, Curtis ends up taking his family away for a weekend where something happens that will shatter his life and the lives of them around him.
This is such a beautiful film. The direction is inch perfect. I don't normally notice the music in films (Carpenter and Batman exception) but the music in this film really added to the wonderful atmosphere this film created. The supporting cast give excellent performances, the locations and scenery are wonderful to look at and the family the film centres around feel so real. The CGI which was used to create the storm sequences also look scarily real.
Take Shelter is essential viewing for any cinema fan and is very close to being perfect.
Saturday 5th November 2011 The Thing - Prequel to John Carpenters The Thing - receives it UK premier at the 25th Leeds International Film Festival, I was lucky enough to be in attendance
I have had a love - hate relationship with this film right from the very start. My initial thought was "Why?" John Carpenters The Thing is very close to being a perfect film, why do we need to mess with perfection? The answer - well one of the main factors - It will make money. John Carpenters The Thing is a hugely successful and popular film so the new Thing already has a fan base.
After I had accepted the fact a new film was going to be released, I thought its obviously going to go one of two ways. It has the potential to be a brilliant prequel to a brilliant film OR it will be horrible, it will ruin the original film. Which one was it? Well a little bit of both.
The film starts with vast and beautiful shots of an icy and snowy landscape. After three Norwegians tell a dirty joke and fall down a crack in the ice we see the name of the film, looking like it is ripping through the screen in the same fashion that it does in the original. Music closely resembling the original chilling score is playing over the top.
We are introduced to too many different characters all at once and we don't get enough time to relate to them all, meaning if they die (Which they probably do, as all but 2 live) we don't really care because we have not spent enough time with them. Then they find the ship which is a real alien space ship, its big and metal and shiny! But it looks terrible. Then comes the only real "jumpy" bit of the film. The alien breaks free. Then the rest of the film is the group searching the camp for the shape shifting creature which they find then lose again then they find it again but then they lose it.
I wont tell you what happens at the end but the scene at the start of the John Carpenter version, with the helicopter chasing the dog? Yeah thats intercut with the credits which is a massive mistake. I don't want to see the helicopter land, then the directors name, then the pilot get out and then the producers names and so on... It feels like the crew forgot thats how it has to end so they filmed it separately and just put it at the end and the dog that runs off and into the Carpenter film... that disappears throughout the whole film, we don't hear it and we don't see it until the end. Its sort of like when your telling a murder story and you introduce a character at the last minute and then everybody gets angry with you for not talking about that character throughout the story, thats how I felt about the dog.
The CGI looked awful and I much prefer the Carpenter effects, the alien somehow looked disturbing but not scary, if thats possible.
This is an average film that had the potential to be brilliant. If you are a fan of Carpenters version I would recommend watching this version but if you have never seen The Thing watch the original and avoid this version as it is basically the same film just with different characters.
I arrive at the Cockpit Leeds 10 minutes late for Scoobius Pip's sold out show and the fact that people are still making their way into the venue is a real testament to the headline act today. Scroobius Pip is in unfamiliar territory on his latest tour, he normally performs along with Dan Le Sac but as this is Pip's first solo tour... Dan isn't here.
I walk into the Cockpit, the heart of the music scene in Leeds, and instantly spot Scroobius Pip, he is stood behind his merch table, Why? On this tour he is doing his own merch, this gives fans a chance to meet the man they have payed to come and see. Pip is happy to sell T-Shirts, hats, albums and pose for photos and sign autographs, he is even letting people touch his famous beard.
The show starts with a loud roar as the lights are dimmed, and American rapper B. Dolan brings his infectious and catchy hip hop to the stage, sporting a giant noose around his neck. Dolan's set lasted about 40 minutes, which is long for a support act, and he even invited fans on stage. One appeared on stage for a dance off with Dolan... which Dolan comfortably won. The second was a Justin Timberlake lookalike who Dolan invited on stage then proceeded to rap about why Justin Timberlake is a terrible musician among other things.
When Scroobius Pip arrived on stage, he started off by doing a short DJ set while wearing a green monster mask, before ripping the mask off and launching straight into Introdiction. I manage to look behind me during this opening song and see that the room is jam packed full. Impressive. To sell out The Cockpit is a very impressive feat.
Pip's set included Let 'Em Come, Try Dying and fan favourite The Struggle in which he claims he is Johnny Depp and he kills people. Death of a Journalist was also included in Pip's set and before he started the song he mentioned a journalist he had spoke to earlier in the day... I think he was talking about me. The set also included the usual Millwall - Leeds United football banter. When Pip finally announced that he had finished and went off stage, nobody moved. Then a chant started, "We Want More, We Want More' and luckily we got more, Pip appeared back on stage to perform Astronaut and for the first time on the tour Feel it with Natasha Fox. Pip then told the auidence he wanted to get back to the merch table and there were two possible ways of doing this. 1. The audience could partand Pip could simply walk through the middle OR 2. Pip could put some music on and stage drive into the crowd who would then carry him to the merch table... Number 2 won. It was a brilliant sight.
Read below for a full interview I conducted before Pip's show.
JV - Hows the tour going so far?
SP - Its been going great, the crowd's have been really good, nice and busy with loads of energy, because this is the first tour of my new solo record and its with a live band I was unsure as to how crowds would be because there used to me been with Dan Le Sac and its a completely different feel but its been going down really well, so yeah I cant complain.
JV - Been a big Millwall fan, do you look forward to playing places like Leeds where's theres that big football rivalry?
SP -Yeah I always do, theres always a lot of banter on stage, at the last Leeds gig we did I chose my walk out music as the song that Millwall come out to and just played that when I came out but in all honestly most of the tours we do, Leeds and Manchester alternate as the best crowd each time and im not doing Manchester on this tour so I've got high hopes for Leeds but its always really good crowds that are really rowdy and I enjoy a bit of Millwall Leeds banter.
JV - How do you think Millwall will do this season?
SP - Hopefully we'll do really good, I went to the first game of the season and we looked really strong and then we got a couple of injuries, and we drew about nine games in a row, but now we have a couple of guys back, we've got Henson back and Jay Simpson on loan and we've scored seven goals in the last two games and only conceded one so yeah hopefully we have turned a corner and I think we should be aiming for the play off's again but obviously thats incredibly ambitious for a club of our size.
JV - You must be pleased with the reception that your solo album has had?
SP - Yeah its gone down really well, I wasn't sure obviously how it would go down because its all quite different from what people are used to from me, so I made it with the goal of making sure I'm happy with it but fully expecting a lot of people to go "I don't know what this is" But yeah its been going down excellently which is great
JV - How was the writing process compared to when you write with Dan?
SP - Really similar, I mean me and Dan write quite separately anyway, we do it all over emails and things like that because he lives in Reading and I live in Essex. So yeah it was really similar, I need my own space to write, I'm not great at just sitting in a room and churning things out, its more of a gradual thing, but it was good to get a variation of people like Steve Mason who produced The Struggle, I went up and stayed with him in his cottage and we were in the studio a couple of days just working on stuff there which is something I've never done before so yeah it was good.
JV - In your lyrics to Intrdiction you say your known for writing about most things people wont discuss, do you find it easier to write about that sort of thing?
SP - I just find it all more interesting, its one of them weird ones, particularly when I was just starting out I wasn't a fan of just hearing my own voice, so I never just wanted to rap about me and I live in a small town in Essex and there isn't good stuff to be said about it, "I'm doing this, I just pop down to Tesco and thats it". So I find it more interesting to look at the darker sides of things I mean generally in our lives if were in a dark place or going through some bad times we get out of that dark place as quickly as possible which means writing about it is kind of more interesting because its not somewhere we try and dwell too much we try and get away from that stuff and get into the good things so writing about all the good parties like a lot of people do I don't find it as interesting because you strive to remain In those places so its interesting to explore the bits that we run away from.
JV - There's been a lot of criticism about the British music scene recently, what do you think of what we have here in the UK?
SP - I think were doing alright, I've never been that, I know this sounds horrible but I've never been that loyal to the British music scene, I think as-long as music is doing ok I'm happy with that, but yeah we have loads of good stuff coming out, there's loads of good underground stuff, like a band called Sound of Rum have been knocking around for a while and are just really kicking off they're really good but yeah I think there's loads of good stuff. Everybody gets two worried about the X Factor and stuff like that but that has nothing to do with the music scene, I think it's perfectly fine as a TV show and it does what it needs to do if you tune in you get emotionally involved, wether you hate it or love it but it isn't anything to do with the music industry its just a TV show. It just happens to have a single at the end of it.
"WE"VE ALWAYS HAD SHIT MUSIC AT CHRISTMAS"
JV - Have you never thought about going up against the X Factor like Rage Against The Machine did?
SP - Not really no, I loved the whole Rage Against The Machine against X Factor for christmas number 1, I thought that was great but I think it's purely because I'm a Rage Against The Machine fan. Everybody thinks Simon Cowell has stolen the christmas number 1, but the christmas number 1 has always been shit, its always somebody like Mr Blobby or Cliff Richard so I cant see what he has stolen. Everybody thinks there's always been great music at number one at christmas... There's alway been shit music at number one at christmas, its just he's made a brand out of it which again is fine but people get really disillusioned and think the x factor is a saviour but there has never been anything there to save, its just the christmas number one.
JV - Who are your musical influences?
SP - There are loads, I mean I grew up really loving Punk and then I got into more Hip-Hop and then I worked in a record shop so I got really into Jazz and Indie and all sorts of different stuff, its really varied I mean from Prince and Cyndi Lauper through to Rancid and Glassjaw and in the middle people like Sage Francis and Rakim so there's influence from everywhere and that comes across in the music because people struggle to put me and Dan and now this solo project into a bracket because its not really harder or dirtier then Hip-Hop but its not rally punk because there's rapping, so yeah its a mixture.
JV - So if you could go on tour with anybody in the history of music, who would you tour with?
SP - Oh wow, that's huge... I don't know, it's too hard, I mean there's tons of people around now who aren't huge but I'd love to tour with them, people like Sage Francis and P.O.S and tons of these people that I really love their music and I can relate to it. Me going on tour with Prince, it'd be brilliant but it wouldn't go down well, nobody wants to see me shouting over angry music when prince is about to come on and blow everyone's minds. I saw a band called Death Grips recently and they were amazing live and I try and think when touring, I think of bands I'd want to watch 6 nights a week and I've got B Dolan on this tour and I enjoy the show every night. So it's trying to think of who'd Id enjoy seeing all the time. There's just too many to chose from.
JV - Will there be another Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip album?
SP - Yeah were planning on starting work on the third record , it was going to be the end of this year but Dan's solo record has been pushed back to the new year so probably later in the new year we will start working on it, so yeah it should come at some point it just depends how long it takes.
JV - Will there be another Scoobius Pip solo album after that?
Sp - Yeah I've kind of got that in mind because I have really enjoyed working on this solo project and I've worked with a different producer on each track and there's a few I'd love to go back to a do a few more extensive work with. Me and Danny Lohner who produced Intordiction and Travis Barker [Blink 182] have both spoken of doing more stuff together and I love the idea of giving that a go because there amazing artists.
JV - Finally as a Film Student I feel inclined to ask you what your favourite film is?
SP - It always switches between Buffalo '66 and Harvey, I love them both, Saturday Night Fever is always in there, everyone thinks Saturday Night Fever is just like Grease but its about drugs and dark dark things happening and its just really good. I love film as much as music and there are loads to choose from but Buffalo '66 and Harvey are always fighting it out at the top.
JV - Have you never thought about going into film?
SP - I'd love to at some point but I've never really had a plan for anything I've done so far. I've always kind of just staggered into things but I'd love to stagger that way at some point because I love it and I'd love to see how I could do. But who knows, here's hoping.
If anybody gets the chance to see Scroobius Pip live I advise you take the chance. Scroobius Pip at The Cockpit on Tuesday 1st November 2011 was simply one of the best nights of my life.
This year Leeds International film festival celebrates its 25th anniversary. It all started at Hyde Park Picture House and each year it has grown not only in size, it is currently the third largest film festival in the UK, but also in popularity. The festival now takes place across various venues in the city including Leeds Town Hall.
This year the festival takes place from the 3rd of November through until the 20th.
Its not just feature films that are shown at the festival, shorts are also catered for. LIFF has 5 programme sections, it has it’s Official Selection, which includes the opening film this year, Andrea Arnolds Wuthering Heights, Fanomenon which includes Night of The Dead XI, a horror marathon, Thought Bubble, which includes one of the UK’s largest comic book convention’s, Cinema Versa which will showcase documentaries and music on film, Short Film City showcasing local, national and international short films and animations and last but not least Cherry Kino which will be showing wondermental cinema, experimental films and the films that make you sit back and think.
If you’re a fan of classic cinema, films that have really stood the test of time, your well catered for this year. Hitchcock’s classic Psycho will be showing on Saturday 5th at the Town Hall, there will be a showing of the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, which is a silent film, but there will be a live organ. Monday 14th again at the Town Hall, I highly recommend this, should be a fantastic event.
If your fans of aliens and outer space, the guys at LIFF have thought about you as well. Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be showing again at the Town Hall on Sunday 13th. What’s better then LIFF showing Ridley Scott’s Alien? Well showing Alien and Aliens, which also celebrates its 25th birthday this year. Catch Alien at the Town Hall on Sunday 6th and Aliens again at the Town Hall on Tuesday 15th.
The programme of films is so diverse; everybody that looks through it will find something that appeals to them.
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to ask Communications Manager Kay Brown a few questions regarding this year’s festival.
Introduce Yourself & your position within Leeds International Film Festival.
I'm the Communications Manager for the Film Festival and as such my position is quite varied. This year I have been involved in obtaining sponsorship and in-kind commercial relationships, generating income through advertising sales, developing media partnerships, proofing print items, designing partner advertisements, distributing print items, uploading content to leedsfilm.com and other platforms (including Facebook and Twitter), consumer research and devising and implementing the Film Festival's audience development strategy.
How did you first become involved with the festival?
I originally became aware of the Film Festival whilst working at The Carriageworks whilst I was at University. The theatre used to be a venue for the Film Festival as well as housing the central Box Office, and whilst working at the theatre I worked both front of house shifts at screenings and sold tickets for Film Festival events in the Box Office. In 2009 I began asking the Box Office Manager about the Film Festival’s promotions and why I wasn’t being told about the Film Festival through University as I was studying within the Communications department. This led to me being introduced to Darren, the Business Manager of the Film Festival, and providing the team with a small proposal of how they could have a greater impact on campus and target students more effectively. After the Film Festival I contacted Darren to congratulate the team on their success of breaking all previous attendance records and asked to be kept in mind for any future positions.
As I was nearing graduation last year Darren got in touch with me and invited me to resend my CV as they were looking at recruiting for the role of Communications Coordinator and I was later invited to interview. I was successfully recruited for a temporary contract for last year’s Film Festival and played an integral role in developing the Film Festival’s advertising revenue and audience development strategy. My work for last year’s Film Festival led to me being invited back this year to continue to build the relationships and partnerships which contributed to the success of last year’s Film Festival.
What is your favourite part of the job?
The Film Festival has a small core team of staff and this means that my job can be challenging as I fulfil tasks that other organisations have separate roles for but it also means that I am able to guide my own personal development and lead on projects that can be really varied. I’m not sure I would have the opportunity to have such a diverse workload so early in my career anywhere else or be part of such a dedicated and talented team.
Working as a part of a small team also allows me to have a greater personal investment in the Film Festival and a pride in what we do. Last year’s Opening Gala film was The King’s Speech and even when I hear the promotional music for the film now; it makes me feel really proud that we were granted permission to screen the film months before it was on general release and won a number of awards. The fact we were given permission to screen the film reinforces that distributors not only value our event and our audiences but they see Leeds as an important city for showcasing film.
Can you briefly explain the selection policy for the films?
Our submissions are open to all and filmmakers can submit their films through Withoutabox (an online submissions system used by most major film festival’s). Submissions generally open after the Film Festival in December/January and close in July/August as we have to lock the programme in September so we can begin promotion for that year’s event.
We have 5 programme sections that filmmakers can submit to: Official Selection – featuring new cinema discoveries and the Golden Own Competition (which presents UK premieres and was introduced in 2004 to encourage debate surrounding the distribution of films in the UK); Fanomenon – genre films from around the world including terrifying horror, action packed sci-fi, mind-blowing fantasy film and anime; Cinema Versa – documentaries inspired by the underground festival aesthetic; Short Film City – short film programmes including the Yorkshire Short Competition and World Animation Competition; and Cherry Kino – experimental films that fill you with, and make you, wonder.
What are you most looking forward to at this year’s festival?
This year the Film Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary and because of this we have secured some really exciting previews and major events. Our Opening Gala screening of Wuthering Heights is going to be a highlight for us as we’ve been working hard to develop our hospitality areas in Leeds Town Hall which people will get their first glimpse of (there will be purpose built bars from North Bar and Kahlua in the vestibule), as well as working with the film’s distributor Artificial Eye to secure guest attendance for the screening. It’s going to be the perfect opening for our anniversary event and should pave the way for sold out screenings during the rest of the Film Festival with audiences experiencing the complete festival atmosphere in iconic venues within the city.
Which film within this year’s festival would you recommend?
As I’m not involved with programming for the Film Festival I haven’t seen any of the feature films we’re screening this year so I can’t recommend as such, but there are two films I’m particularly enthused about seeing that I can’t choose between. They are: Finisterrae, a very funny, deeply strange and highly original debut by Sergio Caballero following the wanderings of two ghosts through the Camino of Santiago to Finisterrae, the end of the world, and The Artist, this film has had rave reviews since it screened at Cannes and is tipped for Oscar success, it’s a highly original and hilariously funny story about ambition and passion set in 1920s’ Hollywood which stunningly recreates the silent era of film.
What am I looking forward to at this festival? The Thing is my highlight. A prequel to John Carpenter’s classic but reviews coming from the states say that if you didn’t like the original, there is a good chance this may not be for you. As a huge horror fan I’m very much looking forward to Inbred which has been compared to The League of Gentlemen TV series. Take Shelter has just received some great reviews from London Film Festival and is part of this years official selection and if you are a fan of comics, Tim Sale will be appearing at Thought Bubble to sign comics and give a talk on the current comic industry.
Overall Leeds International Film Festival will be amazing this year, I urge you all to go and see what you can. Programmes can be found at various venues across Leeds including Travelling Man and Leeds Town Hall.
If you are attending the festival this year all I can say to you is have fun and enjoy and who knows this time next month you may just have a new favourite film.
So it's been a while since I told you lot about how the Fright Fest script is coming along and the truth is... Its going well, Its going slow because I have started uni and contributing to a number of blogs and writing for the student newspaper, so although it is coming along slow, the good news is that it is coming along.
The other news I have is that I am wanting to film a short zombie film. Ideally before Christmas, if not very early next year. It would be nice to start the new year with a film under my belt and hopefully kick start a string of short films (Including the Fright Fest one) leading upto a low budget feature.
Im also looking out for scriptwriters who need directors to make their films. I'm open to filming other peoples scripts.
If anybody is interested in making the short zombie film please get in touch via email vollerjames@yahoo.co.uk or on twitter @james_voller and dont worry if you dont live locally... I'm sure we could sort something out.
Its probably the most iconic role in British cinema. It has the most recognisable theme tune in cinema and one of the most constant opening shots in cinema with it's gun barrel shot. MI:6 agent James Bond is a prestigious role.
Bond has had an illustrious career spanning 22 different films, a 23rd is currently in production, with 6 different actors donning the tuxedo. It all started with Scot Sean Connery in 1962 when he made the first Bond film Dr No. Next came Aussie George Lazenby who survived just the one film in 1969. Roger Moore the took the gun in 1973 and lasted until 1985. Next up came a shocking decision to cast Timothy Dalton in 1987 and he lasted 2 years as Bond... somehow. Pierce Brosnan then took the role and lasted 7 years. Daniel Craig is our current Bond, and doing very well after Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and he is currently filming Bond 23, but rumours have been circulating that Bond 23 will be Criag's last outing as Bond, so who could replace him?
All the normal British actors have been linked with the role. Gerard Butler, Christian Bale, Clive Owen, Colin Farrell, Jason Statham but all these actors would be very bad choices. Here I examine why the following actors could possibly do Bond justice.
1. Tom Hardy. Hardy will be known to most people as Eames in Inception but to fans of Hardy will know him as Bronson. Hardy shot to fame in Inception and has ben cast as Bane in Christopher Nolan's final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, but why would Hardy make a good Bond?
Apparently Nolan told Hardy to give a sense of Bond to Eames in Inception to which Hardy replied YES! enough said? Bond needs a rugged look, he needs to be able to blend in and spy but he needs to know how to get himself out of trouble when he needs to, Hardy could defiantly do that without problem. Im a massive fan of Hardy and I think it would be a great shame if he never plays Bond... but he does have stiff competition.
2. Tom Hardy's co star in Inception (and possibly The Dark Knight Rises) Cillian Murphy. Again I'm a massive Murphy fan and he just looks like a Bond... When you look at him you instantly think Bond. Murphy has a strong career in British cinema after starring in 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Nolan's Batman films. I think Murphy is matured enough after staring in some blockbusters and he ay have the advantage over Hardy because I reckon he could fit into a crowd easier.
3. Finally its time for the outsider. Richard Armitage. Star of TV Series Spooks and a few appearances in comedy hit Vicar of Dibley, but Armitage has also starred in Captain America and the TV series of Robin Hood, oh and he will be in something called The Hobbit? So why would Armitage make a good Bond? Armitage is a versatile established actor who has proved himself in TV and film. In my opinion out of the three actors Armitage should be the new Bond.
Maybe after Richard Armitage has saved the world... maybe Jaime Bell or Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln could take over.
BUT if Robert Pattinson or Daniel Radcliffe are even mentioned as the possible replacement I will abandoned British cinema forever.
So there we have it. Richard Armitage will be the next Bond, Gary Oldman would make a perfect M and Mark Strong and Paddy Considine could team up to take over the world and Emma Watson as the possible Bond girl? But the big question is who would direct this star studied cast? How about... Me?
The acting is wonderful, all the actors had to be on top form as this was a silent film, dialogue was not used so the actors had to tell us the story through mostly body language. The direction is amazing, sometimes I forgot I was in 2011, it made me feel like a 20's cinema goer. George has a pet dog, which almost stole the show, its a brilliant piece of acting by the dog, I guarantee the dog will make you laugh, laugh a lot.
