It’s off-topic, but allow me one movie recommendation. If you like the music of Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets) and if you want to see if Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) will make a good director, then you should watch Submarine. :) It’s a coming-of-age comedy drama based on the book of the same name by Joe Dunthorne.
Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars: “Submarine isn’t an insipid teen sex comedy. It flaunts some stylistic devices, such as titles and sections and self-aware narration, but it doesn’t try too hard to be desperately clever. It’s a self-confident work for the first-time director, Richard Ayoade, whose purpose I think is to capture that delicate moment in some adolescent lives when idealism and trust lead to tentative experiments. Because Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are enormously likable in their roles, they win our sympathy and make us realize that too many movies about younger teenagers are filtered through the sensibility of more weathered minds.”
