THE FEAR
I was reminded of this story the other night when talk came to helicopters. Working with students you often hear exaggerated drug stories. And with drug stories comes mention of THE FEAR. The definite article often suggests that the item in […]

Can you make a successful film with a couple of good actors in the back garden of a stately home? Only if your source material is really top notch, and unfortunately The Triumph Of Love’s source materially is a ropey old 18th Century French farce. […]

The lifespan of originality as a laudable quality is perilously short. We try to hold up firsts as being somehow significant, but beyond their actual place in linear history they rarely stand out. Maybe Hillary and Norgay were the first to climb Ever[…]

I reviewed it here. It was alright. It did not leap out at me, perhaps because it struck me as a slightly more serious children?s film foundation attempt. In Italian.
I got the book for my birthday. Problem is I have seen the film, so I know what hap[…]

Carrot and orange soup is a good way of clearing up a glut of (flatmates) carrots. It is a quick one too, you briskly boil your carrots for only ten minutes before pureeing, it is better if the carrots still have a bit of bite. Warming, yet tangy, it[…]

The experiment is one of the best forms of narrative we have, and one of the most underused. You state your aim, you say how you are going to test it, and then you test it. Results, conclusion and potential closure. As a process it is massively under[…]

The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers is plagued with an inappropriate soundtrack. Not when the film apes and recreates periods of Sellers film career (though the Henry Mancini Pink Panther theme is surprisingly played down). Rather the intrusion of a […]

One of my top 3 fears?
…has to be asphyxiation (a very tricky one to spell as well). However, this isn’t really a run of the mill kind of suffocation-style death. Ever since I was capable of cognitive thought I used to have this really[…]

FORTY FILMS
A List Of Films from 2003 How to write about what I thought were the best forty films of last year. No, scratch that, why am I writing about the forty best films of last year? The simplest answer of course would be that I did it last yea[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
12: Contracting Alzheimer’s Disease
Not any old disease. Alzheimer’s. One day you are a bit forgetful. One day you cannot quite get your head around numbers. Too tired to read, even though you know it[…]