Fermat's Room is a maths-based Spanish thriller (not something you hear every day) and it's a pretty enjoyable little mystery. The DVD cover says "PI meets Cube with a dash of Saw" which unsurprisingly is pretty wide of the mark as it's not remotely gory and isn't nearly as obtuse or esoteric as PI. Four mathematicians are trapped in a shrinking room and can only stop the walls from moving by solving a number of maths problems - reasonably scripted and acted, it manages to generate some tension throughout and is only let down by a shonky conclusion.
Zombieland on the other hand was great, a very funny zom-com in the vein of SoTD. Cautious survivor Eisenberg teams up with Redneck lunatic Harrelson and they travel cross country searching for Twinkies and a new home before they meet up with a couple of tricksy girls. The script was tight, the casting was great and it zips along at a good rate with plenty of laughs and zombie kills. I was surprised to read it had been turned down as a TV series as I'd quite happily watch another 90mins right now. Bet those execs are kicking themselves in the nuts real hard as I bet it's going to make a shed load of cash.
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