Went to the cinema today and saw No Country For Old Men, the new film by the Coen Brothers. Adapted from a Cormac McCarthy novel it's the all-too-prescient story of a radical new Texas governor, who declares the state an independent country and decrees overnight that no-one over the age of 50 can live there.

Josh Brolin plays a world-weary Vietnam vet who travels around in a pick-up truck rescuing old men in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic, state-sponsored assassin played by Javier Bardem.

Much has been made of Bardem's unusual haircut in the film - a huge beehive à la Amy Winehouse - and his unusual method of killing - a sharp blast of air from a portable bicycle pump.

It's definitely worth seeing but some may not like its intentionally open ending: a long tracking shot of Josh Brolin pushing a wheelbarrow stacked high with old giffers towards the state line, unaware that he's being pursued by a mortally-wounded Bardem on a stolen skateboard.