COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
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Commentators: Bey Logan, Cheng Pei Pei, Marsha Yuen
Now here’s an example where there’s a brilliant commentary going on but jeez, the technical aspects! Logan’s a UK born Hong Kong film freak w[…]

I saw Insomnia recently on DVD, and it’s a well-made film that manages to quieten both Robin Williams and Al Pacino. The Christopher Nolan connection becomes obvious after you’re told about it: To Pacino’s insomniac detective, awake[…]

The majority of the reviews for Bright Young Things have spent an inordinate amount of column inches telling us that Stephen Fry’s version is much sweeter and more generous than Evelyn Waugh’s source novel. Well duh. One is called Bright […]

Blink and you miss it commentary on Blaine from the back of yesterday’s Guardian, by Jerry Sadowitz. Sounds like a convincing debunk to me — but what do I know? — I think all magicians are paid to lie to us, like politicians. Which […]

6.15 I hang up.[…]

On NTL, no, I don’t see.
5.53pm. I am on the phone. I’ve been on the phone for 40 minutes. You see, I’ve started on the loooooong road to getting NTL to install loads and loads of telly in my flat. Now I knew that both NTL and Telew[…]

Derren Brown plays Russian Roulette was a little overblown. Unsurprisingly really, considering the act of playing Russian Roulette is a pretty quick one. Instead we got an hour of Mr Brown trying to find the the weakest willed man in the country. If […]

Not to be a contrarian or anything, but when they make this big thing about how lame the youthful Hitler’s paintings were (HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL starring Robert Carlyle, but in fact also everything else about Hitler ever), what’s the p[…]

Watching Jackass with two friends (he just loves it, she’s alternately amused and appalled), the Iron Law of the Playground comes to mind: if a small boy pulls a girl’s pigtails or punches her in the face, it’s sometimes because he […]

DO YOU SEE MOMENTS IN FILMS THAT SPOIL THE WHOLE FILM
1: Rosemary’s Baby
It is easy to forget that Rosemary’s Baby pre-dates The Omen and plenty of other films with the idea of the devil being made flesh incarnate*. And it is surprising w[…]