Here comes Pete. Look out, he has that look on his face again. Like he has just seen a French film and is now going to slag it off. And what French film could be more deserving of a slagging than an all star cast(Huppert/B’art/Depardieu) in an […]

With the movie reincarnation of International Rescue storming towards us with the beauty of Brains and the grace of Thunderbird 2, plenty have mentioned that a central innovation of the film – on top of better effects, a bit of character d[…]

A bit on TMFD on The Miracle Of Bern,  and why films seem to insiste on getting football wrong.Sometimes films should try and be more like television, is the conclusion. WHich does not necessarily mean remakes of The Flintstones.[…]

The Horror Channel recently stole into the Sky schedules in the dead of night. Programming output is based on a mixture of Hammer Horror, b-movie trash and little known classics such as Hard Rock Zombies – When a rock band are brutally murdered[…]

FT Top 100 Films
60: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
 
Martin Skidmore says:

A film that is 85 years old is pretty hard to watch the way it would have been viewed at the time. Silent of course, and the acting, particularly Conrad Veidt’s hypn[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER NEEDS YOU: attention!!! This Friday, your Humble Author will be attending the Big Brother live eviction!! Your Humble Author intends to take a banner and get their ugly mug on the goggle box.  But readers!! I have no imagination a[…]

Spiderman 2..

is really New York 2 feat. Spiderman (also feat. the return of New York public spirit)
suggests that Spidersman 1-3 will all feature villains with voices in their heads. Which may make it easier to attract the stars, in fairness.
twic[…]

Le Jour Se Leve
Hmm. I went to see this 1939 French noir at the NFT the other day. They give you a two-page review-article on the film, it being a serious arts cinema, on your way in. It’s all about director Marcel Carne and the film’s ex[…]

FT Top 100 Films
61: THE DARK CRYSTAL
 
Its like The Muppet Movie without the laffs. Well it is The Muppet Movie without the laffs – at least it would be if The Great Muppet Caper had not already been The Mupp[…]

Why No-one Want Make Hulk 2?
 
This op/ed piece from The Onion makes a fair few good points, but the key point is, would you argue with its writer?[…]