One question about LCTR:TCOL. What is the BBC doing as one of the production companies? Sure it is as shoddy as much of their idea of adventure fayre (hello The Lost World or Walking With Bob Hoskins), but is this type of tosh really what the British[…]

Its easy to get angry when reading articles by Nigel Andrews, the all but movie-hating cinema critic of the FT (that FT, not this FT), but he’s really mined a hollow seam this week. Given a two-page spread in the magazine to discuss sequel man[…]

Swimming Pool? Is that title supposed to make us think that it is deep? Why can’t it just be a good, old fashioned mystery thriller without attempting to get all existential on our ass? The plot: English mystery author Charlotte Rampling (playi[…]

I have a feeling that I am the only one who likes the vaguely redemptive ending of Roger Dodger. Most reviews I have seen think it is a cop out that at the end of this admittedly slimy mans day of breakdown that there could be anywhere for him to go.[…]

My television has been banished indefinitely to the spare room, due in no small part to Nissan Micra and their current advertising campaign. It has become clear that I’m not the only one whose teeth and fingernails start screaming in protest ev[…]

COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
Commentators: John Carpenter, Kurt Russell
These two are notorious for, among other things, one of the looniest DVD commentaries ever, namely for their collaborative remake on The Thing, involving direc[…]

There are actual times when I want to shout at the American tv powers that be, such as when I found out (earlier in the Summer) that there were plans to create an American version of Coupling for the masses here. Insanity! Apparently, the fact that o[…]

It was a documentary called “In Search of Atlantis” and it was on Channel 5, and if I say, Yes but look, it featured Alexander Nehamas as a talking head!!, you might still probably insist I was being ironic and a faux populist re my C5 do[…]

Sleepy and tired are two different things, and the former can be quite nice on occasion, when you give your body the chance to just settle. A couple of moments in a day to do nothing, just think yourself a perfect blank, can be wonderful.
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With some pride and not a little enthusiasm, my source at Paramount announced that they were going to the UK Premier of the second Tomb Raider movie on Tuesday (in its entirety: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life – they really must sort[…]