In fact, with only 49 days to go until you know what starts, EVERYTHING is going football crazy, even the pictures, not that you’d know yet from the curzon website, but according to fourfourtwo there is to be an festival of football films from […]

One of the problems of long running series is a tendency to repeat itself. And it is a tendency inherent in the plot munching behemoth that is 24. Now into its fifth series it is running out of major terrorist threats to inflict upon Los Angeles: hav[…]

In nearly every review of the Dardennes typically fantastic movie L’Enfant there has been a bit of gleeful tongue in cheek theorising about who the titular child really is. Whilst the plot, about two teenagers having a baby clearly has a baby i[…]

Ant & Dec are actors. That’s how they met. In a story akin to how Charles and Eddie met (Ant – “I was a bit scared of him, he had been on it for a year”) how uber-steamrolling interchangeable double act (both straight men[…]

Last night’s Murder City cheated. A vicious rapist, who had got off on a technicality, is found shot – tied to a tree. Around him is found five blanks and one bullet that killed him. Who could have done it? The usual suspects are recycled through[…]

The Dark is based on a book called Sheep. Well it is a supernatural thriller set in Wales. Clearly the film-makers did not think that the promise of a film where the ultimate evil are represented by our woolly friends would get bums on seats. I am no[…]

Hostel would be a pretty good film if it was not for its blood splattered excesses. Its blood splattered excesses are what make it a brilliant film. Part allegorical condemnation of US foreign policy, part justification for US foreign policy, part ex[…]

Transamerica has not, in my readings, actually been reviewed by a transsexual. Not that verisimilitude is ever a particularly important trait in cinema, but we do have to consider Transamerica a special case. In the end Felicity Huffman is, for the g[…]

Sean Connery to quit acting. A churlish wag might ask when he started. A realist would say that this actually happened around The Untouchables.
Expect similar announcement from Roger Moore any minute. Churlish wag = realist in that case.[…]

yes yes very late am i BUT i just on fri bought the DVD of the only series ever broadcast of j.whedon’s um SPACE WESTERN and watched and wtf LARFED NON-STOP — as of today it is the grebtest thing evah

“my ability to take you serio[…]