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[…]

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed an advert at the bottom of some of our Haloscan comments boxes. These ads are selected by gnomes working deep in the bowels of Haloscan,Inc. and we have no control over them. But this one caught my eye – &#82[…]

Here comes Pete. Look out, he has that look on his face again. Like he has just seen a French film and is now going to slag it off. And what French film could be more deserving of a slagging than an all star cast(Huppert/B’art/Depardieu) in an […]

Big and Rich   Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy.
 
This is not country–it is on country radio, country music television,the country station on Yahoo Launch, and reviewed as country by Chuck Eddy in the Village Voice. I am glad that it[…]

With the movie reincarnation of International Rescue storming towards us with the beauty of Brains and the grace of Thunderbird 2, plenty have mentioned that a central innovation of the film – on top of better effects, a bit of character d[…]

THE SQUARE TABLE 4 / BIG AND RICH – “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)”
Pop Factor: 784 Controversy Score: 256
You’ll love it first time if you’re going to love it at all, I reckon. The froth of messageboard talk raised my […]

The last U2 album was called All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
 
The new one will be called All That You Shouldn’t Leave Lying Around For Interweb Scallys To Steal. Let’s just hope no-one posts tracks up illegally&nbsp[…]

A bit on TMFD on The Miracle Of Bern,  and why films seem to insiste on getting football wrong.Sometimes films should try and be more like television, is the conclusion. WHich does not necessarily mean remakes of The Flintstones.[…]