It is coming up to the time for the London Palestine Film Festival, which is run by the Palestine Society at SOAS, and has been a rip-roaring success over the past few years. Having gone from a small University only festival, to now having half their[…]

An annoying trend of current film and television is the set-up. By being aware of the set-up you can nearly always work out who the murderer and the method is in CSI (or at least one of these). The cast iron rule of the set-up is, anything which is g[…]

Oh when will I ever learn? Do not go and see films described as elegiac, expressionistic or downright slow at the Renoir. After a surprisingly tiring day at work, a film where nothing much happens for long stretches in a very comfy and dark cinema is[…]

So in The Mother, Anne Reid plays a woman in her late fifties, visiting her daughter in London who falls in love with her boyfriend and has Teh Sex with him. He is a bit hairy and not at all as attractive as Daniel Craig these days. But it was hailed[…]

 Irrational. Contradictory. Mad. The top 50 is an irrational list. But what do you expect – it was voted for by men!
We at Freaky Trigger towers were shocked when we saw the Observer Woman Magazine’s Top 50 Men Who Really Understand Wome[…]

Notes On A Scandal is a well made adaptation of a good, yet difficult book. Both are compelling, yet uncomfortable to watch and read. The impending sense of sadness and tragedy which fill both cannot exactly be described as entertainment – whic[…]

“…And America launches the last of NASA’s deep space probes…”
Of the two US space operas available to me as a child, and then again as an “ironic” Def II viewing late teenager, I always much prefered Buck Rog[…]

Blood & Chocolate is a werewolf movie. But its not a horror movie. It is a werewolf movie in the same way Interview With The Vampire was a vampire movie, ie its a load of ole goth nonsense about how kewl, but not kewl, it is to be a werewolf. It[…]

It was a bad time to go to New York to try and snaffle some pre-release movie goodness. Half of the big films had been released in the UK first, the rest are about to be released. All I had going for me were the arthouse ones which may never get a re[…]

There was a time when you knew a trend, a craze or band was naff because they started be referenced in adverts. In the heady days of the eighties, when Studio Line adverts were on rotation during The Tube and The Chart Show, it became painfully obvio[…]