I always wonder if Jamelia’s mum was a messy eater and hence her birth certificate accident. Or perhaps it was one of those cases where the mum really wanted a kid called James. Whatever, the Jam type Amelia reckons you can See It In A Boys Eye[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
9: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Think of films whose lead chararcters have bands named after them. Duran Duran – a character in Barberella – were enormously successful. Travis have been successful despite being piss poor*. And now […]

END-TIMES WATCH #3:
back in the 19th-century anthropologists and other colonial social scientists made studies of the various native societies and cultures that imperialism was smashing: religions which revolved round animism and the fetish object a[…]

Post idea 2: Old film mags had a local-paper quality lost among the glossies: a regular lament was the infelicities of NFT programming. So my two cents is: why seemingly every ruddy film ever made by George Cukor and a very incomplete selection of Li[…]

Most Expensive Piece of Toast Ever.
Questions this article raises:
a) Toast clearly does not go mouldy!
b) AMerican cheese really is indestructible.
c) From her depiction on this sandwich the Virgin Mary clearly had elephantisis (it may explain her v[…]

More comparisons:
Boris Akunin’s The Winter Queen has been called a Russian version of an Ian Fleming book. Sure it is full of restless adventure clich’s but actually the book is far closer to John Buchan’s style of derring do*. The[…]

Carrie Fisher
Roy Scheider
Alan Cumming
Spike Lee
Sean Astin
Verne Troyer
Patrick Swayze
The big question is, who will be next. Predictions here (comments box) and we can see who is right when the next new Orange Film Commission ad comes out (the New[…]

LOST FROG
rainy just emailed me this link – it is self-explanatory (or maybe the other one)[…]

‘Good Morning, Night’ is a brilliant film. I saw it over a year ago and my memory of it is too dim to base a review on, but vivid enough for the fact it’s been slept on to get to me. Perhaps it’s one of those ‘You don&#8[…]

Bee-covered sodomising asteroid: is the use of the term “nuclear winter” here because
i) this has become a real actual science name for any long-term post-explosive atmospheric temperature drop.
ii) this has become a lazy shorthand for an[…]