Scarlett Johanssen looks as much like the Girl With A Pearl Earring as Nicole Kidman looks like Virginia Woolf. Which is not a huge problem, as the film is much more about her mooning around the house feeling a bit hard done by. Luckily, since she ra[…]

A revealing New Yorker article on Larry David the, by the sound of it, interminably grumpy, co-creator of Seinfeld. Thanks to ILX’s maura for the link. I was particularly tickled to read that George’s “See, this should be a show. Th[…]

Rewatching the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmeses on BBC2 (Sat) has been fun for many reasons:
Such as Brett’s fabulous-absurd performances – his Holmes-method seems to have been, rather than play it small for the cameras, to take Victorian […]

I think I understand all the reasons why people don’t like Lost in Translation, but ironically for the film I think much of these criticisms are due to interpretation. Unsurprisingly, middle class single me, positioned socially somewhere betwee[…]

Load “” Screen$
Waiting the three long minutes for a 16K Spectrum to load from tape was relieved by the loading screen. For the longer games (there is no real ZX Spectrum worthy of the name larger than 48K) there had better be an interest[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 5
Premise no.1: Battles are chaotic places
Premise no.2: Chaos is by its very nature unstructured
Conclusion: As long as you jerk the camera, constantly change the p.ov., put lots of gruesome special effects on t[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 4
I know villains are suppose to twirl their moustaches, but surely it is too much of a signal to the audience to have a villain whose moustache comes pre-twirled?[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 3
Fans of Liquid Swords by the GZA/Genius will thrill at the moment when the Emporor sends his ninja spies to the Samurai village to kill everybody. Unfortunately fans of decent martial arts movies will note th[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 2
The totality of Tom Cruise’s characters involvement in the politics of the Japanese situation seems to be, these people seem quite nice and are a bit like the savage Indians wot I killed lotsin the States[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 1
How much fun is it to watch Tom Cruise get tthe snot beat out of him with a stick. In the rain.
Answer: Lots and lots. Unfortunately it only happens once.[…]