Now you can easily understand Mystery Science Theater 3000’s endless glory — if you so choose. Not totally new news, but Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Manos: The Hand of Fate are coming out in a little DVD two-pack in a few more […]

Around The World in 80 Days
I don’t actually have much to add to Pete’s review. I didn’t even consider the few problems (not that I’m suggesting Pete was much bothered) because I saw the film as a perfect merging of the 80&#82[…]

Mannequin 2: Department Store Boogaloo!!!
Has anyone EVER seen this film? I speak as a fan of the original film Mannequin, with the young Kim Cattrall being imprisoned as a shop dummy, awakened only by the love of a young window-dressing scrote for […]

FT Top 100 Films
53: BREAKIN’

Pete Baran says:
Or as it was called in the UK – Breakdance: The Movie. There was a spate of films in the late seventies/early eighties with the appellation “The Movie” attached, in case you tho[…]

The Indycars on Channel 5 are, in one way, ideal viewing at about half-one in the morning. The commentators are unfailingly dull , and the action (My brother: “So basically all they do is keep turning left?”) gets squished into forty minu[…]

Do they take us for fools?: few forms of media are worse than the Radio Ad* but the new Toyota one takes some kind of cake (possibly Battenburg). Vaguely geezerish regional bloke talking about the joys of youth – “going on dates”, y[…]

Downhill Racer was on BBC2 last week late, and a drunk me stayed up to watch it not remembering how it ended. IDIOT PETE. This is a sports film. For all of its slightly unusual sports subject, it is as formulaic as they come. Bobby Redford is the blo[…]

I recorded then watched Channel 4’s ‘X Rated: The Pop Videos They Tried to Ban’ the other day, and spent much of it’s duration begging Jayne Middlemiss (unfair to single her out, and hardly new to pick on TV talking heads but […]

There aren’t many films that slip in an advert for their own DVD during the running of the film. Even more rare is this advert coming whilst the actor playing the lead character is comparing his portrayal to the real live person his character i[…]

It’s A Kid’s World
I can’t say that Pete is being harsh on Police Academy (below) but I think it tells us something interesting about our childhood tastes and our relationship to them. My guess is that – like The Incredible Jo[…]