Crocodile Dundee is a truly wretched film. In short it is merely an extended version of Paul Hogan’s Fosters commercials, stretched out to an hour and a half. And what a tedious, prospect that is. “Can you tell me the way to Cockfosters?&[…]

I expected badness from the new version of The Manchurian Candidate. I expected the ground to shift to corporations, attempts at satirising US politics and a watering down of the po-faced conspiracy side to accommodate a modern thriller plot. I was r[…]

Nearly all of the news about the Ukrainian Election Crisis has been has been predicated on the tug of war between east and west and a Putin vs Bush new world order being played out in White Russia. No-one appears to have picked up a much more signifi[…]

Received wisdom on Layer Cake was the shock that Matthew Vaughn (erstwhile Guy Ritchie producer) turned out to be a better director than Ritchie himself. LAZY LAZY LAZY! Yes, Layer Cake is a striking effort, but considering where Vaughn is in his car[…]

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8: REAR WINDOW
Martin Skidmore says:
This film has become oddly topical in recent years, with its pre-echoes of reality TV, since it is about sitting there and watching ordinary people go about their lives. The filming of this is bri[…]

POST INTRO 1: I just saw a man as I got off the bus with a tiny little moustache shading the philtrum twixt nose and lip but no wider than his actual nose. I do not believe I have ever seen a moustache like this on a live human being.
POST INTRO 2: I[…]

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9: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Think of films whose lead chararcters have bands named after them. Duran Duran – a character in Barberella – were enormously successful. Travis have been successful despite being piss poor*. And now […]

Most Expensive Piece of Toast Ever.
Questions this article raises:
a) Toast clearly does not go mouldy!
b) AMerican cheese really is indestructible.
c) From her depiction on this sandwich the Virgin Mary clearly had elephantisis (it may explain her v[…]

More comparisons:
Boris Akunin’s The Winter Queen has been called a Russian version of an Ian Fleming book. Sure it is full of restless adventure clich’s but actually the book is far closer to John Buchan’s style of derring do*. The[…]

Carrie Fisher
Roy Scheider
Alan Cumming
Spike Lee
Sean Astin
Verne Troyer
Patrick Swayze
The big question is, who will be next. Predictions here (comments box) and we can see who is right when the next new Orange Film Commission ad comes out (the New[…]