Whistle while you drink — the Snow White Cafe in Hollywood was chosen as a meeting spot by a number of us in LA on Saturday pre-disco movie madness across the street at the Egyptian. The selling point is that ol’ Walt himself started the[…]

“BITE THE APPLE!”
Oh dear dear, dear me. I had heard about it. I knew it existed. I read a review here and there but I had happily forgotten what I had learned. And the reason why it was happy was that, years after I had been aware of[…]

STAND AND DELIVER!
I actually sorta think that the last few years in particular have been a bit of a golden age when it comes to what I increasingly think is ‘my’ (borrowed) era of music, seen through a distorting lens of time and from th[…]

FT Top 100 Films
51: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
Martin Skidmore says:
This has a lot of the things everyone likes in Woody’s work, and almost none of the stuff people don’t. It’s not trying to be Bergman at all, though its apparently […]

D&D, Role playing, none of it interested me. There were about half a dozen kids at my school who lived this life. These were the kids you never saw at lunch hour. As soon as the bell went, they scurried away. It was a great ploy, the thugs would[…]

DJ CASPER in HOW NOT TO MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO. DJ Casper has just shot down Tottenham Court Road in an delapidated open top bus with a bunch of bored looking punters on board, one cameraman at the back. As the lights changed to green, suddenly the music[…]

Flicking The V’s. So Harvey Smith then, showjumping legend became all the more legendary in 1971 when in the British Showjumping Derby, he completed the course, won and did a reverse V for Victory sign at a part of the crowd. Many say it was at[…]

Samurai Executioner

Lone Wolf & Cub is one of my all-time favourite comic series, and I’d recommend it very highly, especially to anyone who likes Kurosawa’s samurai movies, as it seems a very close equivalent to them, except with a[…]

As promised: Me on Fluxblog on Baggy plus THEE BIG POLL.[…]

AVENGERS DAY
2: Catwoman Poster
It is a sure guarantee that an overdesigned poster often leads to a lousy film. Why I remember the poster for The Avengers with Uma Thurman poured into a nice sturdy catsuit with the tagline “Saving the world in […]