The trailer for Oscar nominated German film Downfall is very disappointing. At no point does the very starry (vor a German film) cast shake off the grimness fo a end of WWII Nazi flick and settle down to the Milton Bradley game of the title.
Of cour[…]

JUDGE JOHN ROCKIST: apologies for neglecting my Dub Dob Deed blogging duties one and all, I blame my rotten old sodden alcoholic lifestyle, I’ve been dead in a bin for the past few days and have only just managed to drag my disgusting semi-cada[…]

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Minor excitement today as I realised that my new desk has a great view right over the wall into the back garden of Buck1ngham P@lace! I will naturally be keeping an eye open for monarchs, courtiers, individuals in Nazi costumes, etc etc.[…]

My parents can be a touch impatient when it comes to television. Given the full range of Sky Channels which can be cycled through in about the time that it takes for you to forget what was on the first one, I rarely expect to see a whole film all the[…]

All New Captain Scarlet changes the theme tune, the mode of animation and the colour of the Mysterons. It also manages to turn Melody Angel into a monkeyish munter with helmet hair and dispenses of Scarlet’s Cary Grant accent. But that is not a[…]

“sooner is better than later”
when i proposed joan of arc: the messenger for the FT Top 100 i had actually only seen the first half, and wouldn’t have wanted to expand much except to say how peerlessly* FAB this half is: OK now i&#[…]

The Oscars might actually be worth watching:
At the annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences luncheon for nominees on Monday, Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates announced that this year’s broadcast would be as different from previous o[…]

La Nina Santa (The Holy Girl) has had very good press, though very few of the reviews suggest you should drop everything and go see it. I know what they are getting at. It is a very slight film, which reminded me a lot My Summer Of Love in both theme[…]

THE NOMI SONG
dir. Andrew Horn
The Nomi Song is a biography on German singer/performer Klaus Nomi, who recorded two albums, created one of the most memorable/iconic stage images ever, and passed away in 1983, one of AIDS’ earliest victims. The[…]

Meet The Fockers is in a lot of ways a pale rerun of Meet The Parents. But oddly it is a much more assured film than MTP, in as much as with the exception of one actor, everyone else is a really good comic actor. That acotr of course is Bob De Niro, […]