Giving the crowd the finger: literally. This horrendous story is exactly why FIFA are penalizing excessive goal celebrations. Sooner or later someone is going to break their neck doing a backflip.
You might think that giving the player a yellow card[…]

Freaky Trigger writer, posts essay about Lindsey Anderson’s If….
Ah, but its not THAT Freaky Trigger writer, it is Henry K.Miller.[…]

There was much controversy about allowing TV specials into this list. I allowed them via the justification that most of these films were seen on the TV in the first place. I just did not want to seperate that viewing experience. And whilst The Snowma[…]

This variation on the Groucho Marx joke was not something that ever really needed fleshing into a full movie. Nevertheless, given the literal meaning of the title, a pretty good fist was made of it. It is a superhero origin film, just with Santa as t[…]

(Oh, a key bit of business. Whilst this is a list of Christmas films, they are not all about Christmas. Instead they are Christmassy films, films which remind us of Christmas and sometimes films which are always on at Christmas. The usual veto and no[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
5: WAYNE’S WORLD
I saw Wayne’s World in Oxford at a midnight preview screening when I was a student (George Street, Screen 1 which was huge before it was parcelled into six screens). The week before I had seen a midnight scre[…]

As I settled down to watch the Incredibles I thought, “Hmm, I would really quite like a French poster of this film”. Why? Well the French world for Incredible, Incroyable, is probably my favourite Gallic word. It sounds like the English v[…]

(Obviously compiling this list a few weeks before December means that true Christmas spirit had not settled in amongst the electorate. However one must imagine this is exactly the same problem that the TV schedulers have when programming Supergirl on[…]

In ensemble films, the credits often come up in alphabetical order. This can create a few problems with nominal star billing, but promotes the idea that all the actors are equal and were just part of a big gang in filming. Nevertheless the big stars […]

(I know the other list is not quite finished yet, but two weeks ago, this list was compiled in the usual manner in the pub and will probably fail to be counted down accurately as per usual leaving you tantalised. The order of films was supposed to in[…]