UNAPPETIZING FOODSTUFF DESCRIPTIONS: Supermalt
A helpdesk fella has just popped in to my office to disentagle yet another flaw with Windows 2000 Professional and spied a kay of Yebisu Malt Beer. Now Yebisu is one of my favourite Japanese beers and su[…]

Reading Any Human Heart by William Boyd I got a sense of deja vu. It reminded me of something. A wide ranging novel about a twentieth century life, staring an artist of sorts who intersects with real people at key moments of history. An interesting s[…]

The film opens. We’re under water. The credits bubble up, just the producers and the films title. And there. We see a girl, trapped in a car which is sinking. And then Will Smith wakes up. He does not like this dream. So he puts on Superstition[…]

FT Top 100 Films
47: GOLDFINGER
Best James Bond film ever! This may well be contentious but when you think of all the scenes in it, you have to admit it has it all:
The jet-pack!
Pussy Galore
The attack on Fort Knox
The fight on the Cable Car with Ja[…]

The problem is not that there is no magic in King Arthur. It is that there is no King. By all means do your spurious archeology nonsense and to the wilds of the borders, though the Scottish scenes seem to be taking place in the Alps. No, King Arthur&[…]

VANISHING LONDON
3: The Parker-Knoll School Of Economics
Okay, that is not the real name of this spurious seat of learning, but might as well me. I have lived near and travel by this undemanding prefab building on the Caledonian Road for about seven […]

It’s a hot day. Perhaps I should not be in the cinema at all. After all, dehydration does not exactly lead to heightened attention, and the choice of a Japanese Yakuza flick might also be dispiriting. Of course I should have noticed the words T[…]

FT Top 100 Films
48: TIME BANDITS
Okay. Confession time. I stole the Time Bandits script from Borehamwood library. It was a nice big hardback which had the entire script with plenty of on set photo’s and scrawlings on by Gilliam, including prod[…]

It appears there is nothing The Onion likes more than summer movie season.
MOVIE PRAISED FOR NOT BEING AS BAD AS IT COULD BE
I still think it will be a touchstone of badness by the time the year is over, but I am open to the idea that it might only b[…]

How interested are artists in art? I would venture that a lot of them are not all that interested at all. After all, if you are constantly dragging round the galleries you won’t have time for your own work, and what about all those dangerous id[…]