FT Top 100 Films
65: THREE MEN AND A BABY
Okay. I fail to see exactly what is so funny about the set-up. They are men. They have to look after a baby. Maybe the humour is devised from their differing fathering styles. One is over-protective, the othe[…]

A look at Fahrenheit 9/11 which I decided to post on the Wedge because it turned out I was talking more about Fahrenheit 451 than Michael Moore’s emotive, entertaining but ephemeral docu.[…]

This week’s tale of abject incompetence by the UGC Shaftesbury Avenue comes courtesy of their 2:15 showing of Tupac: Resurrection on Saturday the 8th July. They got three of the reels in the wrong order. No-one else in the cinema seemed to noti[…]

BBFC CERTIFICATE WATCH
The Story Of The Weeping Camel

U: Contains A Scene Of An Animal Being Born[…]

I am going to say a bit more about Mean Girls later (actually I am going to say a LOT more about Mean Girls later) but first an observation. There is a character called Janis Ian in Mean Girls. That’s it. It is completely apropos to nothing. Oh[…]

In The Beginning…: in this month’s Edge magazine Stephen Poole says some interesting things about how games begin. He contrasts them with other cultural forms, where the intro or opening scenes or first paragraphs often try to make as muc[…]

Thanks to NTK for this preview:
‘… watch out for http://tv.cream.org/ staffers largely escaping the blame in WHO KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT TV? (9.50pm, Sat, C4), a clearly rhetorical inquiry considering that very evening’s entertainment[…]

I’m not a driver, but op-ed writers shifting into film critic mode — as happens a lot around films like ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ — seem to me to emit that bad-gear-change ‘crunk’ sound so familiar from my few disast[…]

FT Top 100 Films
66: CARRY ON NURSE
During the drunken session that created this list, there was some suggestion that Carry On Nurse did not even exist as a film. This idea was very attractive to us, what better to represent the nebulous, huge canon […]

There’s an effect in Shrek 2 that I don’t remember seeing elsewhere, though it doesn’t even need a completely animated universe: It switches scenes by keeping the lead character in close up, and simply fading one background out and […]