Having just read about Pilot season, I now realise we are actually in pilot season, when the test shows are actually being made. And so sniffing around the web I came across the lacklustre suggestions of new shows. Lacklustre with the exception of
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Can’t you see
Harper Lee
Is better than thee?[…]

Talking to other people about seeing the original Japanese Godzilla* I mentioned how dark the film was. The looked back incredulously saying that it is a film about a giant monster destroying Tokyo, of course it is dark. Perhaps my friends don’[…]

Thanks to the miracle of Interweb stealery I was able to watch The Changes last week, the ten-part kids’ TV adaptation of Peter Dickinson’s novels from the 1970s. This was always a touchstone of Mr R Carmody’s thinking, so I was eag[…]

Taking sides:
Lars Von Trier’s new film Manderlay is
a) A piece of sub-Brechtian theatricality masquerading as a sophisticated political film whose sophistication seems undercut by the fact that somewhere along the line Lars has got Gone With T[…]

It is great to see a new Tsui Hark film at the cinema. Seven Swords is nowhere near Hark at his best, but since I have only ever seen him on a TV, I relished seeing this in a cinema. Bigger budgets, digital effects and relentless editing though remov[…]

Because YOUNG PEOPLE ARE NOT WATCHING THE TELEVISION ANY MORE.
Fear not, this could be for any of the following reasons
a) There are less young people. Remember, this is why the South Will Win in the end.
b) They are downloading television directly i[…]

i had thought that w.PPG and cow’n’chicken IR Weasel and dexter’s lab in the autumnae of their respective senescentia, the amazin NON-adult cartoon bonanza of a decade ago had fizzled a bit but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The Fairly OddParent[…]

So it has come to this. Final Destination 3. A film whose relation to the original pair is merely a concept, and the amount of fun said concept (killing people in far fetched accidents) can provide. When a film gets to this point in a franchise howev[…]

Watching the only Spielberg film wot I have never seen at the weekend, got me thinking about form and content. I have spent a lot of time over the last few weeks thinking about television. What it can, and cannot do well. And watching The Terminal it[…]