FT Top 100 Films
52: EASTER PARADE
I love the synchronicity in this list. Yesterday we had Breakin’. Today Easter Parade. Both pretty much the same film for very different generations. Now I am not suggest Judy Garland breakdances in Easter Par[…]

The characters in Before Sunset (and nine years ago in Before Sunrise) are insufferable. And yet, and yet… Have we not all been there. Before Sunrise was university dorm room seduction by half-arsed philosophy for ninety minutes. Your ability t[…]

See look how popular showjumping was in the 1980’s. There was even a Commodore 64 game – “Harvey Smith Showjumper“. And the copyright issues – possibly the BBC wanting to do their own Showjumping game for the BBC Model B[…]

Okay, I must admit I did not expect this when I idlely googled Monkey Testing. It is a bit of a let-down really, where are the shaven, rage infested gibbons of the movies. Instead a rather dull defense of random testing of software.
What stood out t[…]

FT Top 100 Films
53: BREAKIN’

Pete Baran says:
Or as it was called in the UK – Breakdance: The Movie. There was a spate of films in the late seventies/early eighties with the appellation “The Movie” attached, in case you tho[…]

Things to do with half a carton of orange juice.
a) Drink it
b) Drink it with gin
c) Drink it with Vodka
d) Brown a chicken leg, with onion and a bit of red pepper. When nicely browned pour the orange juice on, and let stew for about twenty minutes. […]

BROWN WEDGE QUIZ OF THE WEEK
You pick up useless facts when researching. Occasionally said useless facts stick. After spending yesterday speed reading all of the playbills of West End plays for the last seventy years, here is a nice little fact I gle[…]

Downhill Racer was on BBC2 last week late, and a drunk me stayed up to watch it not remembering how it ended. IDIOT PETE. This is a sports film. For all of its slightly unusual sports subject, it is as formulaic as they come. Bobby Redford is the blo[…]

Whatever happened to show jumping? These days it is barely seen on television, probably just as part of three day eventing in the Olympics (and trust me, there is plenty of time over the next few weeks to talk about horse walking sideways). When I wa[…]

There aren’t many films that slip in an advert for their own DVD during the running of the film. Even more rare is this advert coming whilst the actor playing the lead character is comparing his portrayal to the real live person his character i[…]