wive$watch (us style):
it still all seems a bit slow and so-what BUT this is a secret-history dimension i like: eg that the true hidden stars are the munster manse, the leave-it-to-beaver home &c. &c.[…]

Sideways
I went to my first movie preview tonight. My pal Andrew got me in on a screening of Alexander Payne’s new movie – we’d both loved the last two he made, so were looking forward to this. I’d read an ILE thread about it,[…]

Avenging the Avengers
On Saturday I decided to watch The Avengers movie on Channel 5, the first time I’d seen it since it came out back in 1998 and in complete defiance of the general critical opinion that it’s The Worst Movie Ever Made A[…]

“Some people are dicks, and pussies don’t like dicks because they get fucked by them. And then there are arseholes…”
The logic inherent in Parker & Stone’s scatalogical analogy espoused in Team America : World Polic[…]

“You’re as mad as your mother. And your mother was a lunatic”
Sure, the staging, direction and cast are all fine. It’s just that By The Bargh of Cahrts is not a well-written play.
I was far from interested in seeing this rel[…]

MUST WE THROW THIS BOGEY FIRTH* AT OUR YOUNG KIDS
Yes, being the quite obvious answer. Tory MP gets knickers in twist re: Dick and Dom. Though I like the idea of Tessa Jowell playing Drop Your Guts…
*TYPO UPDATE: This should, of course, be filt[…]

National Treasure
I’d been wanting to see this since I saw the Trailer about 8 months back. Bad reviews had made me worried, but not so much; I thought I’d watch 2 hours of reasonably good rubbish. I was wrong. I loved it. It was BRILLIAN[…]

NOT MY THEORY
Thinkin’pon Eastwood the brain quickly jumps to Woody Allen. Seventies, actor/star cum director/star. How often does Woody die in his films?
Well Love & Death (obv). But again like Eastwood, in the later films death is not an[…]

Please please please please please let a bunch of teenagers and a strangely human-like dog have been instrumental in solving this mystery! What’s Polish for “meddling kids”?[…]

HELP MY THEORY. I am probably wrong, so help me out before I make a big fool of myself. Has Clint Eastwood ever died in a film? Watching Million Dollar Baby yesterday it struck me that old actors are a wee bit wary of actually dying in films (unlike […]