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I could talk about all the good things about Good Night & Good Luck, a film which an acquaintance thought was completely worthless because it told her nothing new. And true, it is preaching to the converted, and there are few (certainly almost n[…]

There are two really interesting things about Pavee Lackeen (The Traveller Girl) and neither of them really have that much to do with the director. Well okay, one does, since he chose the theme and actors. It is merely a thought: to what extent is Wi[…]

Lady Vengeance (or Sympathy For Lady Vengeance as it is still semi-officially called) is the third film in Chan-Wook Park’s vengeance trilogy. The films have little to do with each other, except the theme, and by the time I got to the end of th[…]

Which is a plausible argument anyway. But Dwayne McDuffie – comic and TV writer -proves it. Elsewhere the horrible spectre of continuity has been discussed with regards to comics – where the occasional anal fan community pick nits which s[…]

Grizzly Man is the best serious film I have seen for two years (maybe longer). Why? Because it works on so many levels:
1) A nature film. There is something about Timothy Treadwell’s hours and hours of wildlife footage which is beguiling. When […]

Worth watching to see how we were scared off of ever going near roads, not to mention ever crossing them. Jon Pertwee and his incomprehensible mnemonic SPLINK!
What is nice is the talk back at the bottom of the article where someone suggests the cree[…]

I was in a ‘Discount Media Store’ recently. The kind of place where books are heaped everywhere and yet, incredibly, they’re all rubbish. And the shop smells like a big wet dog. Outdated travel guides, calendars, remaindered fiction[…]

Is it Johnny Cash’s fault that his life fulfills all the rock star cliches? He helped write half the cliches, so no. (I mean clearly it is his fault for taking the drugs and being on the whole a bit of a bastard for so long, but that is not the[…]

Brokeback Mountain, as illustrated by the Brokeback to The Future parody, has something that so many recent films have lacked. A solidly recognisable soundtrack. The Gustavo Santaolalla soundtrack is sonambulisticly wistful, to the point that you mig[…]