“These people have no televisual persona, do they? They just should not be on television!”
A Quiz:
a) Who said that?
b) About whom?
c) On which programme last night?
Answers in the comments box please. All shall be revealed later today&#8[…]

Last Life In The Universe is a Thai film by a director (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang – of Mon-Rak Transistor fame) who is well aware his audience is predominantly in the West. Why else would this slight love story between a morbid Japanese youth and a me[…]

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#3: RISHI “I’ll definitely be watching that” PERSAD
Rishi Persad was introduced into the BBC’s horse racing team at some point last year. Ever since, he’s been a som[…]

FT Top 100 Films
45: MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN
If Brian is not the Messiah, just a naughty boy, then this is not so much a film as a collection of rather good quotes strung together in a facsimile of a religious satire. As satire it is stupi[…]

Terry And June: a long-cherished memory of mine is the episode of Terry And June in which Terry is playing golf with his boss and hits a shot which lands in the back of a lorry bound for France. HOWEVER I have no idea if this seminal TV moment, in so[…]

On the way in to see Control Room at the ICA, there was a photocopied sign which told me that I would also be able to see the documentary on BBC2 on Saturday 21st August. This was ten days ago so I think I might have been able to hold my fire to save[…]

Look at the name. This is no piddling fire, this is an inferno. And as infernos go, this one towers over you. A behemoth of burning, I give you The Towering Inferno.
The film is nowhere near as good as its name, though it does try. Paul Newman AND St[…]

I’ve become less self-conscious about walking out of films: second to get the chop this year was Jacques Lacan’s Psychoanalysis: Part One, after 45 of its threatened 60 minutes. The film, probably made for TV, was shot in 1974 by Benoit J[…]

The film opens. We’re under water. The credits bubble up, just the producers and the films title. And there. We see a girl, trapped in a car which is sinking. And then Will Smith wakes up. He does not like this dream. So he puts on Superstition[…]

Superhero TV Cartoon Theme Songs
I think my favourite and least favourite TV theme tunes are currently from superhero cartoons. The best of them is the Teen Titans theme. It’s a terrific show very much in the Japanese style throughout, all the […]