FT TOP 100 FILMS
17: TRADING PLACES
Swopping is funny. The cinema proves it. The fish out of water scenario is great, all the more so when you get two for the price of one. Trading Places, for all its borderline offensive set-up manages to handle one[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
18: THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Martin Skidmore says:
Someone started a thread some time ago on ILE trying to cast considerable suspicion on people who ‘claim’ this is their favourite movie. It is my favourite movie.
It’s not[…]

BLOCK BLOG
2: Time To Murder And Create
How I Got It: Borders Charring Cross Road, which happened to be the first place I looked. After the difficulty of finding number one, I though this might be the case here. The only problem was its top shelf pos[…]

Do You See Derrida?
There is little to add to the excellent eulogy to Derrida over on the Brown Wedge here, except to note what a chump Ivan Massow is. Yesterdays G2 had a “What does Derrida mean to you article” to the not that great and […]

SUPERMAN IS DEAD
So said the cover of the Evening Standard yesterday. Ho hum, I said. Its not anything we haven’t seen before. He’ll be back in a couple of months.[…]

There are two types of salads in this world, as far as a I have noticed. There is the leafy, chunky, lotsabits but mainly lettuce types, and then there is the chopped to bits swilling in dressing kind. I can only make the first kind, mainly due to an[…]

Five Things About Michael Chabon’s
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
1: Clay doesn’t have any amazing adventures
Okay, he maybe has the amazing adventure that many of us have, living in a big city, doing work you like, doing wor[…]

DARE YOU SEE SAW
I’d like one ticket to see Saw please
I saw Saw last night.
The film is as sophisticated as the gleeful half jokes made out of talking about it. Ie not very, but wonderfully direct. I do not think that I have seen a more narrat[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
No.20: Being On A Fairground Ride And Noticing Bits Falling Off
Or sundry experiences to that effect. The point of many fairground rides is to scare us. To scare us safely one might add, but if they were not dangero[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
19: SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT
Anthony Easton says:
Everyone liked this, they liked the crudity and mistook it for sharpness; they liked the absurdity and mistook it for political acumen, they liked the casual inclusion of […]