Video Throwback: On the Merits of Impotence

I just watched Children of Men. Wow. Alfonso Cuarón [say what you will, he made the best of the Harry Potter movies] directs almost A-grade stars Clive Owen and Julianne Moore in this spellbinding and weird and masterful adaptation of the P.D. James novel. It's the not-too-distant future. Women can't get preggers. Extinction looms large. Anarchy Rules. No, this is not an Armageddon press sheet. Then, in a barn [where else?], a tiny little secret is revealed. It's a paranoid kind of 'Pilgrim's Progress'. If you like life-affirming stories with lots of exploding things you'll love Children of Men.