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 […]

ESCAPE FROM RUBBISH ISLAND!!!
People often ask me what the most frustrating thing about my tireless campaign against music is. My answer, as I stick my boot in another jukebox, is comebacks. There is nothing more annoying than seeing a band that you […]

AVENGERS DAY: All my DYS comments today will in some way refer to the shoddy Avengers film starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes.
1: The Stepford Wives
I have not seen a film so butchered in editing as The Stepford Wives since probably The Avengers.[…]

“Fancy popping round for a quick parsnip?” For some reason, these ads have sprung up on the side of buses. An ad for coffee. Not an ad, you will notice, for any particular coffee. Nescafe is no long attacking us with Trinny and Susannah t[…]