FT Top 100 Films
29: CASABLANCA
First, the film would not work if it was called White House. Obv.
Second, for bald-faced propagandist politics, you cannot get better than Casablanca. The subtext is “them crap Europeans always need us Yanks to s[…]

Have You Heard The Flowers Talking?
Huzzah, welcome to Japanese invention corner. A vase that turns your flowers into stereo* speakers. It does seem that it means you speakers have a short shelf life, as long as your cut flowers, and one suspects thi[…]

DELIGHTS OF SOLO TRAVELLING
1: Staying in bed all day
I have a pretty protestant work ethic. In my usual day to day, not only do I rarely have sick days off, but even at the weekend I am usually up and out by 10am. I have never been sure if this is a[…]

SOME MOTHERS DO HAVE ‘EM

And Sometimes they get – BIG!
It is Michael Crawford in a fat suit for his role in the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical The Woman In White. I am hoping that the attendant hooh-hah about this Wilkie Collins adaptat[…]

I once spent an enjoyable flight to the enjoyable New York City talking about my job to my seat neighbour. Uh-oh, I hear seasoned travelers say, but its okay: the guy was fascinated by my job as a drinks technician. He joined me in laughing at the at[…]

Green Wing: POINT (I am expecting a counter-point to come along from about everyone else). I like Green Wing. I admit, it did not leap on me instantly. The sped up, slowed down, trip-hop stylings which will be the meat and potatoes of any criticism o[…]

Double-barrelled syringe injects new hope into lame doctors comedies: able to do “a couple of pricks jokes now too”.[…]

FT Top 100 Films
30: BANANAS
There are people who say that they only like Woody Allen’s early funny movies. Good luck to them i say, though I sometimes goggle when taht actually means anything before Love And Death. For such people Bananas is t[…]

FT Top 100 Films
31: INFERNAL AFFAIRS
This is the third time this year I have talked about Infernal Affairs, the first being when it came out here, and the second being about its sequel. And looking at those two reviews I find myself also considering[…]

Open Water aka The Blair Jaws Project (a joke made by every other reviewer save none). A nice little suspense thriller which proves yet again the Texas Chainsaw Massacre thesis that the crapper the cinematography looks, the more real the scenario see[…]