FT Top 100 Films
59: DEBBIE DOES DALLAS 
  
Anthony Easton says:
 
Debbie Does Dallas is happy. The blondes are happy, the people fucking the blondes are happy, the sunlight is happy, and the green grass is happy. Even with t[…]

Chuck Klosterman vs The Olympics: I’m guessing the coverage of the Olympics in America is very different to its coverage here. In Britain, where the only thing medal hopes usually end up beating is medal experiences, the very joy of the Olympic[…]

Still no token jazz: The Popjustice Twenty Quid Singles Prize offers its alternative to the Mercury folderol. Both lists feel a bit disappointing, to be honest.[…]

Is it the Mercury Music Prize Shortlist?
Or is it the line up at a one day inner city festival?
You decide:
 
Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Jamelia[…]

Do you flick or swat?[…]

PUB NUTTER WATCH
 
The Calthorpe Arms. 4pm. Sunday. I go to the bar to get some more of the lovely Young’s Summer Zest. Whilst at the bar I am complimented on the beauty of my daughter. The problem? I do not have a daughter.
 
Initial[…]

Anthony Mann — Preamble I was about to do my first post on Anthony Mann’s noirs, when I came across something startling on the interweb. Mann’s noirs, made as B-pictures in the late 1940s,  are less well known than his Westerns[…]

Bunch Of Amateurs. What was it that was the reason sport should stay amateur? Was it the glory of the game? Playing for all the right reasons untainted by mammon? I wonder since the dull old Olympics are coming up, which used to be the home of amateu[…]

The Bridge at San Luis Rey
A new film version has been completed and sits in pre-release limbo. Two previous attempts have met indifferent reaction, the first in 1929 (a year after the novel won the Pulitzer Prize) and the second in 1944.
The story […]

It won the Eurovision Song Contest you know. Need any greater guarantee of its absolute wretchedness? A song which can appeal to non-native speakers is obviously going to have relatively banal lyrics. Nevertheless the metaphor being used here, that S[…]