13 – Tzameti uses its cheap black and white stock and short running time to stark effect. That its premise is near ridiculous, its characters uni-dimensional and the ending somewhat unlikely is to misunderstand what is so great about it. Basica[…]

In my younger days when I had some sort of inappropriate belief in some sort of natural justice, I would routinely curse those who insisted on handing in essays and coursework late. Here was I, an organised chap, able to produce the work within the d[…]

Short story collections which are presented as novels: they annoy me. I read two over the Christmas period, both of which were good short story collections, one of which was really straining trading standard rules to be presented as a novel, let alon[…]

You kind of know what you are going to get with The Producers. Well of course you do, its a remake of a remake – staring most of the original cast of the remake. The only new additions are Uma Thurman’s Ulla and Will Ferrell’s Leibk[…]

For some reason the e-book seems to be the holy grail for certain technology manufacturers, no doubt frustrated that millions of people in the world still endure – nay – enjoy reading words on paper. I am not sure of the environmental imp[…]

I have just received a box full of about 5000 flyers for a website called chinesefood4u.co.uk (also handily known as chf4u.co.uk. The flyer describes the website as “The website where you can get discount meal vouchers from different Chinese re[…]

a) Have a Chef’s Special deal on your menu which offers a starter, main course, dessert and coffee for £15.95.
b) Price the Dover Sole at £15.95.
Voila.
It was fucking tasty too. As was the antipasto, the tiramisu and the coffee. Hooray for r[…]

Kirikou and the Sorceress was a pretty fun French/African animated film from five years ago which deserved a much wider release. It did great box office on the continent but no distributor picked it up in the UK, leaving it to the BFI to flop it arou[…]

Not really the films fault. For some reason I believed that the Israeli/Ethiopian/France/Falashan movie Live And Become was only ninety minutes long. Which means at nineties minutes, when the film leaps from the eight year old actor playing the lead […]

Casual flipping in the morning is unavoidable when BBC Smugfast is doing a story on a cat having open heart surgery and GMTV is having a hard hitting Detox Diet Scambusting yawnarama. So you are tired, and your brain has not woken up yet. Still, this[…]