How Now Christian Metz?
or: Giant Leaps Forward in Film Theory: “Similarly, running around a structure buried deep beneath Antarctica (it’s colder underground) without a hat for an extended period of time is ridiculous. And fighting an a[…]

Atrocity Exhibition as Primetime Drama: Actual Real Surgery on TV pt whatever [warning: long post]
The J. G. Ballard interview that I quote a bit of below took place in 1982, and a lot of the rest of it (unquoted) feels a bit dated now, even naive &[…]

ResFest looms once again – along with OneDotZero this is a key event in the medium of artistic digital film, primarily showcasing cutting edge film-making, animation and effects. Needless to say I will be there at the NFT when it happens, glued[…]

Get a New Life
Last night on BBC, the show featured a couple who’d decided to try emigrating to Oz. They asked the wife what her thoughts were. She said:
“I miss my key people”
WTF? Key people? We call them family and friends here o[…]

Digging one up from the archives — this isn’t a new piece, but I stumbled across it in my work files; originally it ran on FT back in 2000 when it was a dot-com and was lost in the Internet underworld along with that domain. There are a […]

Free at Last
After 32 long years on the run, justice is finally done in one of the greatest miscarriages of US Military justice.[…]

It was actually the head and upper chest they saved — the ridiculous joy of They Saved Hitler’s Brain isn’t just the title, of course, but damned if that doesn’t have a lot to do with it. It’s a perfect time-killer movi[…]

last python alive
i can’t really tell if terry jones’s constant reversion to his old shtick in terry jones’s medieval lives is i. tactical, ii. just kneejerk, or iii. semi-sheepish.
you can hardly accuse jones of dumbing down or s[…]

How Dr Who Made Me A Liberal
“Inside the party, more than a few people know I’m a fan, so when a set of Doctor Who-related questions came in to party HQ from a fan group during the 2001 British General Election campaign, I was given the r[…]

Christianity + Marketing = DOOMSDAY
(I’m assuming they’re Christians.)[…]