Continuing today’s Johnny Depp festival, I watched The Ninth Gate the other day. Considered at its time as the fading of a once impressive director, Polanski then went on and won an Oscar with his next film. Which may give us pause to re-evalua[…]

As A Tim Burton Event and even as a remake, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory feels a little TOO predictable and ‘robotic’ at times (Hollywood/ILM/Elfman etc. TOO well-oiled a machine now!) – the latter criticism ironic perhaps give[…]

Harry Hill does comedy series for kids. In many ways a no-brainer for Hill, as it was the Sunday afternoon repeat of TV Burp being discovered by kids that suddenly made it popular. And look at that photo on the BBC webpage. Is there any reason why TH[…]

Imagine if films had a money back guarantee. Well, Cinderella Man, the Russell Crowe depressingdepression boxing movie is being re-released with one. But that’s an actorly film, and this is the studio trying to back a film they think should not[…]

The new aI-qa3da on bbc2, whilst “timely” and an interesting counterpoint to the power of nightmares from 6 months ago, is a dreadfully flawed programme on a number of levels:
1. the first programme on “j!had on the interweb” […]

In many ways the anti-Fantastic Four. Tremendous cinema, well thought out characters, bit of a chore to watch. And whilst I will not reveal exactly what the Consequences Of Love are I shall give you a few ideas:
a) Being in a car accident
b) Being ki[…]

As promised here: what is the Fantastic Four like as a film? Judged on its cinematic merits, it is pretty rubbish. It is a real flash back to the hey-day of lousy action movies (1990’s) where special effects ruled the roost and films were judge[…]

There are two films out there which feature invisible characters. One is the Fantastic Four which I have not seen yet:the other is 3-Iron, a Korean oddity from Kim Ki-Duk. An oddity because it starts of as a deadpan silent movie, then turns into a bi[…]

Blue Sky is a Korean anime film. It is set in a dystopian future where climate changes has wrecked the Earth and everyone lives in an intelligent domed city called Ecobahn. This is quite possibly the technological solution to global warming that Geor[…]

I like John Sayles a lot. Lone Star is one of my favourite films. Unfortunately his new one, Silver City, is not. Which is a great pity because it shares a lot of similarities with Lone Star, and has some terrific turns from Chris Cooper and Maria Be[…]