Half way through this afternoon’s Coronation Street repeat on ITV2 came this, the most frightening advert I have ever seen (you have to click on the banner at the top).[…]

Thus could be summed up my experience last night at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the first such formal thing I think I’ve attended. It’s only been around for a few years and is not yet a tradition per se — and the amateurishnes[…]

This joy was specifically to mop up films I had never seen from – ahem – the canon so I feel more confident when I slag them off/talk anout them. Note, that is more confident, I can currently slam down a nicely nuanced argument about why […]

Unfair title. Sorry. Sahara is great. Well the last hour is when the fights happen and things blow up. Yes, it is silly but as action movies go, you have a few heroes who sepnd most of the film being implacable and enjoying the adventure. Death of th[…]

Namely, this is a wonderful neo-colonialist film which likes to stress the role of the UN in mediating world affairs, whilst acknowledging that the reality all boils down to a couple of white Americans making choices. Sean Penn is a white New York co[…]

Warning: explicit content. In case the title wasn’t a clue.
I saw an ad for a Channel 5 show about plastic surgery the other day, and it seemed to think it was a surprise revelation that big breasts are popular in porn. I know that we aren&#821[…]

I don’t know if you’ve been watching newsnight over the past couple of weeks, but there has been intense controversy about them replacing the daily round-up of the markets (which always seemed like a haiku version of the shipping forecast[…]

My second reason: 2) To watch rubbish films that even I refused to see in the cinema, often to uncover the odd under-rated gem (and improve my already obsessive completist MENTALITY).
Okay, the obsessive bit is possibly a bit frightening, as I have r[…]

i dremt that tony soprano’s wife wz really buggin me to have a relationship: i however wz unconvinced bcz she is TONY SOPRANO’S WIFE!!
(i woke thinkin: WHAT HAVE I GOT MYSELF INTO??)[…]

It had the trademark Elmore Leonard snappy dialogue and had a neatly packed plot. But it was clear that Leonard knew very little about the music biz, and therefore it lacked the edge that his obvious bitter dealings with the movies had informed Get S[…]