American Teen teaser posterSo, this is the week I come out of hiber­na­tion to resume post­ing and what do I have to report? Only the bleed­ing obvi­ous infor­ma­tion that the new Bond (Quan­tum of Solace) is every­where this week­end and that the only cin­e­ma dar­ing to go up against the behe­moth is plucky lit­tle Para­mount which is play­ing Amer­i­can Teen from today.

QoS is the mid­dle film of an expect­ed tril­o­gy so don’t expect much in the way of res­o­lu­tion. And despite being the most expen­sive Bond film in his­to­ry it’s a wel­come half an hour short­er than the pre­vi­ous Casi­no Royale: More ses­sions = more mon­ey. Play­ing at Read­ings, Empire, Pent­house, Regent-on-Man­ners, Embassy and Light­house Petone.

A big win­ner at Sun­dance this year, Amer­i­can Teen is a doc­u­men­tary sur­vey­ing a cross-sec­tion of cur­rent US young-adult-hood in the town of War­saw, Indi­ana. The char­ac­ters are stock (which is sort of the point): the Jock, the Nerd, The Queen and the Out­sider. You’ve got to love a film with this poster though. Para­mount exclu­sive.

Quan­tum of Solace was reviewed this week at Funer­als & Snakes and Amer­i­can Teen will join it next week (and in the Cap­i­tal Times if you pre­fer ink and paper).