TALK TO FRANK
The much derided British national drugs site is actually pretty good. There are a couple of “uncool” howlers on the front page (the Going Down section perhaps) but it does manage to convince you of its message that it is jus[…]

The nations favourite fairy tale. The results may be skewed by the source of the survey, UCI cinema’s. Though note of the top five, two have not been made into Disney films. But why does Cinderella romp in at the top spot?
Cinderella, told pro[…]

I am going to say a bit more about Mean Girls later (actually I am going to say a LOT more about Mean Girls later) but first an observation. There is a character called Janis Ian in Mean Girls. That’s it. It is completely apropos to nothing. Oh[…]

A new way of detecting weapons! Using TeraHetz technology, it can stop terror, hurting (do you do you see). The efficacy of any detecting device is all depending on the person weilding it however. The problem kicks in when with all the whizzy devices[…]

I read Personal Injuries by Scott Turow on holiday. It seemed the right thing to do. Turow is the legal thriller writer who got gazumped by John Grisham. There he was, eeking out nice little pot-boilers like Presumed Innocent (Harrison Ford’s w[…]

FT Top 100 Films
66: CARRY ON NURSE
During the drunken session that created this list, there was some suggestion that Carry On Nurse did not even exist as a film. This idea was very attractive to us, what better to represent the nebulous, huge canon […]

Oh ha ha – fashion victim alert. Problem with taking the piss out of horrible football shirts is that from a crowd perspective it is a bit of a Kylie calling a Britney a flirt. Acres of large bellies stuffed in sports wear, face painting and ju[…]

FT Top 100 Films
67: DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD
Now there is a title to conjure with. Put your best foot forward, sock them with an audacious title and maybe they will come back for me. And in the most part the film does fulfill[…]

Interesting piece from comics writer Steven Grant in the wake of Spider-Man 2 about the supposed dumbing down of cinema. It meanders a touch but soon gets to the interesting thesis that cinema, as a social lubricant, is all about getting people into […]

FT Top 100 Films
68: THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
So you’ve made a low budget horror movie, received well, regarding the fears of a woman Irena (Simone Simon) who believes she turns into a cat when aroused. Despite this she enters into a relatio[…]