Cruel Summer or Shut Up Sunshine!
It’s probably best not to look forward to things, but I do, and I’m often disappointed. I’d waited quite a few weeks to see Pirates of the Caribbean. I mean the trailer was great; skeletons, Rob Zom[…]

But Tom, what of the PIRATE ZOMBIE MONKEY? I neither am at a grate barbequeue as I am being a goth and avoiding crowds and going outside in the heat. Instead I am here to comment that the LADIES from 24 are completely interchangable with the GURLS fr[…]

YARRRRRRRRRR! Everyone else is at a great barbeque and I am sat at home nursing a hurt foot so it falls to me to mention Pirates Of The Caribbean, which we saw on Friday night. I am not the best person to review films, I rarely see any so my cinemati[…]

It was the best documentary series but it ruined factual TV: each ep of World at War ended with a cliff-hanger from Sir Larry – “Retribution would come… from THE SEA” – and then the picture faded to b&w benday dots […]

VERONICA GUERIN (by way of The General and When The Sky Falls)
In Veronica Guerin Cate Blanchett plays Joan Allen playing Sinead Hamilton in When The Sky Falls who is actually Veronica Guerin. Its okay, if that looks confusing there is a precedent fo[…]

Last night on Bad Girls, Christopher Biggins (playing himself) and his partner adopted Buki’s six year old disabled son and invited her to live with them on her release in 4 months time. Also, we discovered that new screw Selena has joined the[…]

We never discover who All The Real Girls are in David Gordon Green’s film. Like much of the film even the title has a dislocated, incidental feel to it. The film initially is equally slap-dash about its chronology – starting with the key […]

Introducing — Commentary Conundra
*camera pulls in closely on tuxedoed figure* Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in mass media, for that is what you and I are going to be observing for the rest of our lives! And remember, my friends,[…]

The Japanese are great smokers (both in number and quality). I think I have found the iconic Japanese smoker though, Machiko Kyo – in her role as slightly long in the tooth actress in Ozu’s Floating Weeds. The film looks oddly anachronist[…]

HOW CAN I NOT HAVE SEEN THIS ACTOR AGAIN?
In Howard Hawks’s mostly unoriginal (it’s almost a remix of Rio Bravo) but very fine 1967 western El Dorado, a teenaged girl shoots John Wayne early on, because she believes he is a hired gun who […]