Tonight we (the hubby and I) enjoyed a stay-at-home date including Chinese food and a movie called Across the Universe.  This film was totally fun to watch and I am going to have to heartily recommend it which is surprising because my husband picked it out and our taste in movies has drastically diverged in the past eight years. He pretended to like the movies I liked when we were dating (mostly sappy dramas or a good heist movie with gratuitous violence) but dumped them in favour of artsy foreign films and wacky, nihilistic indie films as soon as we got married.

The really interesting aspect of the film is that it features music exclusively by The Beatles.  It’s kind of a musical/drama set in America during the Vietnam War.  I know many of you weren’t fooled a bit by my attempt to hide the word “musical” in that last sentence. But really, it’s less like The Sound of Music and more like a two hour Beatles music video.  The interpretation of the 33 Beatles songs in this movie is creative, original, witty, clever and entertaining!  I promise, you won’t be disappointed!

Well, now that I’ve hyped it up like that, maybe you will be. But you should watch it anyway. The soundtrack is phenomenal and is now at the top of my list to purchase in the near future.