“Why do people go on Wife Swap???”: this is my despairing cry every week. It’s despairing because I know the answer. It’s not just because they want to be famous, really – that’s a harmless enough ambition for all […]

What has been nice about the recent Japanese horror wave is that it has generally resisted excessive exposition. Whilst the body of the film of The Ring was trying to find out why people were dying after watching the video, this took a resolute back […]

OH. MY. GOD. CSI totally proves my Grand Theory of Media (which is viz = that if you omit engagement with [whatever] from the appropriate forum, then it simply re-merges, return-of-the-repressed styleee, elsewhere, in some unpoliced or disconsidered[…]

FT Top 100 Films
64: MY FAIR LADY
Mo’ puns. Very few people get the “My Fair Lady” / “Mayfair Lady” joke implied by the title as Eliza Doolittle would pronounce it. Perhaps they shouldn’t, since the adaptation from[…]

I watched four films in the course of a sickie yesterday, so I’m not about to hand in my cinephile badge and gun, but the six-bleedin’-hour-long ‘Best of Youth’ has defeated my scheduling. I just can’t find two evenings […]

The Story Of The Weeping Camel: well the certificate was correct. There was indeed a scene of an animal giving birth. Which was, and I don’t think I am spoiling this for anyone, a camel. However the weeping is a bit of a misnomer, as with the s[…]

101 Things Removed From The Human Body (because someone had to post it). Really once you have got past the 24 inch steak knife, the five nails and the kid who literally had half of his brain blown out, there was not far for the program to go. Except […]

Just a quick note to vent my spleen.
THERE ARE NO KIDS IN THUNDERBIRDS.
You see there were so many things wrong with doing a Thurderbirds movie that it is physically impossible for it to be good. After all the source material is tedious supermarionat[…]

‘If…’ man in ‘Scottish’ claims. No doubt the Bern film festival claims Jean-Luc Godard as Switzerland’s own, but jeez…[…]

political commentators = rubbish reviewers of films #3485
Monbiot’s concluding sentence: “When a scruffy comedian from Michigan can bring us closer to the truth than the BBC, it’s time for a serious examination of why news has beco[…]