Julia Davis in Nighty Night is probably the furthest we can go with nasty a protagonist in a comedy. It causes quite a massive dichotomy really. How can Jill, the really unpleasant Beauty Shop propriator be so well formed as a character and yet be so[…]

On the whole I watch TV as anti-stimulation – same reason as I DON’T listen to music (music generates way too much whirly stuff in my head, so unless I’m actually writing about it or researching something I avoid it). Anyway, I don&[…]

I did not see The Sweetest Thing when it came out summer 2002 (I might have been on holiday that week, sorry). Warned off by poor reviews I assumed it was a sub Farrelly Brothers gross out comedy. Whilst I would not go as far as the film-makers in th[…]

To counter my own bonkers work on film, it is good to see that mates in the pub can come up with equally out there theses. Last night in pub number two I was presented with the Alien / Pubic Hair debate. Said friend of mine had watched the Alien Quad[…]

Your talk show? Has been taken off the air? For gratuitous racism in the Sunday Express?
So no Kilroy next week, and we all get an extra half hour in bed before Trisha. His crime was to claim that Arab countries have given the world nothing. Yet, acc[…]

Sarah is right. I have seen Virus. I took a couple hours off of work to see this godforesaken Alien rip-off (starring Jamie Leigh Curtis as Sigourney Weaver). Most notable for Donald Sutherland being the ripest, most mature, smoked old ham you will e[…]

[Ananova link expired] Hot off the press with breaking posts today, aint I readers? This news is possibly the best thing I’ve heard since it turned lunchtime. I’m off to the publog.[…]

Independence Day. Isn’t it marvellous? Hurrah hurrah let’s kill the stripper and those hippies! That’s the kind of morals I WANT from my films! Until the aliens bugger up by deciding just to kill EVERYBODY. Where’s the subtlet[…]

I have a brand new impression. I am not what you would call a mimic, yet it struck me that along with my screwed up Old Man Steptoe face, I could also do a fair to passable caricature of Renne Zellweger in Cold Mountain. It is rather simple, blow you[…]

‘Ordinary life can be pretty complex stuff’. So runs the tagline for Sundance audience winner American Splendour. No shit. You’ll be teelling me the pope wear a silly hat next.
What is remarkable about American Splendour is not that i[…]