i sorta plan to post more on this – or maybe not, sigh – but for the moment all i shall say abt that C4 abi titmuss doc is that when mr rod liddle declared that the AT phenom marked the arrival at sensible maturity of british sex, i i had[…]

In Tomb Raider (the game), Lara Croft’s guns are auto-aiming. Basically if she can see it, she can shoot it. This leads to a particular set of moves when she is fighting anyone or any creature particularly difficult. You make her jump around. A[…]

The more I thought about seeing Tarnation, the more my brain started splitting the words up to become Tar Nation, a film about a country complete tarmacadamed. In such a fictional land our hero Jonathon would be a very poor lawnmower salesman, until […]

This is a real blog entry right here, folks: ace critic Raymond Durgnat takes on Sight and Sound, the BFI, Hoggart, Leavis, the Free Cinema etc etc, forty years ago. (Later he made up with Anderson, a bit.)
Until it was posted, this piece was rare as[…]

Yes, yes, Ong-Bak has repeated sequences of people getting the tops of their head caved in with an elbow, but what is unusual about that? Elbow have been giving people brain damage for years. No, what is interesting about Ong-Bak is the edit job whic[…]

What better ways are there to spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon in May than ensconced in a dark concrete sub-basement watching a silent film from 1926?*
After a rather too large lunch, hoofing it around the renownedly maze-like Barbican Centre tryin[…]

Is it
a) Scarlett Johansson playing this films version of Lady Windemere? She gets to do all the emoting in the film, and being a naive young lass does not get to spout any of the Wildean epigrams which the film otherwise stuff into the gaps like an […]

There have been a few grumbles that this Doctor Who series seemingly refuses to leave Earth. Where are the alien worlds and cultures, fans cry? Good riddance to them, for now at least. I’ll admit I’m curious as to how the new production i[…]

BBC article. This is timed to hit the finale of 24 isn’t it? :-(
Ok, so Btefnet’s down, but isohunt is still going as a torrent search engine.[…]

Predictability and formula in films are often derogatory terms. Cinematic shorthand though allows a film-maker to concentrate much more on other nuances of the film. Equally plotting you can see coming a mile off in a film need not be bad if it feels[…]