Getting back from Glastonbury is a tiring ordeal. When you roll in you are torn when it comes to food. You have been eating out of vans for the last five days, you want home cooking. But you also, unsurprisingly, have no shopping in. So its off to th[…]

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring. Well the title tells you everything. Do you get the hint – this is one of those cyclical, history repeating itself things. So past Autumn, do not look for any surprises. Instead look for a nice p[…]

Corey? Really? That’s not a name.
The Lost Boys is the definitive 80’s vampire movie. That’s not to say it is any good. But it bundles the Reaganomics and brat pack ideologies into a big ball and spews them out with all the usual me[…]

Politics and film. Can a film really effect an election? A question worth asking about Fahrenheit 911 – but a question that perhaps Julio Medem’s film The Basque Ball. A documentary of mainly talking heads about the Basque people, culture[…]

You are hot. You want cooling. You buy a Magnum, aware that it is the premiere ice cream chocolate combo.Butwhat is this? Oops, you have accidentally bought another one of the four hundred special edition Magnum’s that come out every year. Stil[…]

Let’s look at the joke in the title. We have the idea of sleepy all-American town Grosse Point. We have the idea of John Boorman’s Point Blank. And in between we have a comedy about a hitman going to his high school reunion. Oh and the hi[…]

THE TOP 100 FILMS (apologies)
Apologies as my sure fire system for popping up posts slowed down over the last few days due to me being in Spain. Thios is likely to happen while I am at Glastonbury too.
Bigger apologies go to Martin who wrote a spiffi[…]

Anthony Easton says:
Some of this film reviews on IMDB claim that it is far fetched, that straight camps do not exist, and others talk of it as a piece of homosexual propaganda, making fun of the vert services young queers might need. The first shoul[…]

I have to admit from the start, I have never found Molly Ringwald pretty in anything, let alone pink so my views of this film are initially tainted. And I do remember upon first viewing thinking it absolutely ridiculous that Andie ends up with bland […]

Since Otar Left is the best French film I have seen in ages. This may be in part because it is set and stars predominantly Georgians. Or it might be because it is the debut feature of Julie Bertucelli whose previous gigs have been Assistant Directing[…]