A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…..
Star Wars would still be the perenial list topper for populist film charts.
It is not the case anymore I would wager. The document of the Top 100 list puts this down as Star Wars: A New Hope. Bolloc[…]

As the football season (sort of) draws to a close, the days grow longer and my hayfever kicks in, it can only mean one thing, time to spend all day reading big brother updates on digital spy. Look here is the last hour of last year’s show, han[…]

In Bon Voyage we see a return of that most ropey of plot conventions. The plain girl who does not believe the hero could ever fancy her actually more attractive than the girl everyone says is pretty. I thought the Truth About Cats And Dogs had killed[…]

See. That’s how different this list is. Perhaps the nominee thought we were doing the list in a different order. Perhaps, as first picker they had not realised exactly how different this list could be. Maybe they were dazzled by the canon. What[…]

Introduction: Methodology
Last year Sight & Sound returned to a perennial subject, the top ten films of all time. At the same time Channel Four happily filled six hours with a very similar (in theory) list show, which soon got devolved into the […]

It is too early to say what the loss of Jeff on Coupling will mean to the dynamic of the show. It is impossible to think though that a show like Friends – which Coupling is so based on – ever losing one of their cast.
On the pro-Jeff fro[…]

It seems that my new favourite genre of films is work proceedurals. Shattered Glass does it for highbrow journalism, and painstakingly spends much of its time telling you how rigourous the editing and fact-checking process is. It then spends the rest[…]

Alterno versions of films we have already seen. Implicit in the mid film two gang meet-up in Shaun Of The Dead is that there is an equally viable film starring Jessica Stephenson where one assumes less people die called Yvonne Of The Dead. This is pr[…]

So does Saturday’s result mean that Mark will have to re-write the noise piece to work in the carpathian pop Xena?
While we are here, are there any suggestions for solving the “political” voting quandry, beyond reanimating Tito to r[…]

Everyone is getting excited about all the up coming summer movies. Alright, not everyone, but the marketing machinery is there to suck us in despite years of knowledge that the strike rate on good/bad wanders in at about 20% worthwhile. Anyway, not f[…]