It appears there is nothing The Onion likes more than summer movie season.
MOVIE PRAISED FOR NOT BEING AS BAD AS IT COULD BE
I still think it will be a touchstone of badness by the time the year is over, but I am open to the idea that it might only b[…]

I am thinking about my favourite action movies because Midnight Run is on TV, clashing with No Man’s Land a Bosnian favourite from a few years back. But I will watch Midnight Run, because it is more fun than the BBC2 satire, and it has a very […]

Tickle Talk Update
An essay on editing, with case studies. Possibly the last essay from the third greatest ever BB contestant, but easily the most interesting, and only coincidentally agreeing with my feelings on the matter. Many BB fans manage to ho[…]

FT Top 100 Films
49: CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
Martin Skidmore says:
I love this film. It’s full of great moments and scenes, beautifully shot, mostly flawlessly acted, with glorious cinematography. I love the scene with the petite girl (Zh[…]

More Woody: The title gag goes as follows “Do you ever wonder about the futility of life, the horrific impending spectre of death and the fact it seems impossible to relate to anyone in this world?”
Cab Driver -“Well you know, it&#8[…]

PRESENTERATOR
an occasional series rating the modern British television presenting animal out of 10
#2: “The Curious Case Of” SUZI PERRY
Suzi Perry, for the unfamiliar, is first and foremost the presenter of the Moto GP (i.e. big fuck-off[…]

FT Top 100 Films
50: ANNIE HALL
I love Annie Hall. There you go, not much more for me to say on that subject really. It completely invented a type of romantic comedy, and laid the template for the standard Woody Allen film that he would flop back to […]

If Ping Pong was too tame for you, and the lack of death in Shaolin Soccer got you down – there is always Battlefield Baseball. Probably not coming to a cinema near us soo.[…]

Ping Pong – not a film about the dodgiest of Rupert’s chums. Instead a Japanese film about table tennis. Based on a five book manga. That is a five book manga about table tennis. You know the way they say there are manga on every subject […]

AVENGERS DAY AFTER
(ie: I was too busy to post this yesterday)
3: THUNDERBIRDS
Oh its easy to link the Thunderbirds movie with The Avengers movie. They are both inferior versions of a televsion classic, right? Wrong. As I posited here – a strai[…]