'Sin City'

I watched it on DVD last evening, in all its glowing black-and-white-with-splashes-of-color glory.

Gives a whole new 21st-century, post-modern meaning to the term film noir.

Who isn't in it?

Off the top of my head it features Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Alexis Bledel, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Jaime (formerly James) King and Devon Aoki.

Looking at the back of the DVD case I see it also has Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Madsen, Carla Gugino and Michael Clarke Duncan playing various parts.

Quentin Tarantino served as "Guest Director," whatever that means.

If you don't like blood spurting out of severed body parts then you might not enjoy this film.

True, it's cartoonish but it's also awfully realistic in its own peculiar fictive way.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller himself, the author of the "Sin City" series of graphic novels.

You can watch the film's trailer here.