QT has directed TV before, most notably a superbly blood-splattered episode of ER. One does not expect his direction of an episode of CSI to be anything less than “icky”. But now he is toying with a whole TV series.
Well he would not be t[…]

There was a moment when I thought I would not actually get to see this heartwarming tale of a ladies stuffing her belly with 62 pellets of cocaine and her adventures in that there Noo Yoick.Part of me thought the whole thing would be all too depressi[…]

Goes to FAQ U. I shall not add to the literal acres, and acres of print which will appear by the end of this week in explaining how this comedy replacement for Channel 4’s 11 O’Clock Show* is the biggest insult ever committed on the Briti[…]

I’ve mostly been avoiding reviews of the new Dr Who series. Not because I think critical discussion of it is pointless, or because many disagree with me, but because I think they’re problematic. Is the problem in TV reviewing, or is it a […]

Not how he got away with the questionable zombie stunt (see below), but he does explain many other tricks on the Channel 4 micro-site. I’d like even MORE explanations – but it’s a good start. I think some of the highlights of the pa[…]

1: The name of John Cusack’s character in Grosse Point Blank.
I believe it was Lee and Herring’s Fist Of Fun (though it might be the Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopaedia) that made a long list of potential sitcoms with realistically b[…]

Regular readers here will know that no one loves soul music more than I do, so I was looking forward to this new BBC documentary series. It has lots of great footage, much of it new to me, and interviews (mostly a bit obvious 90-second bites, but it&[…]

Javier Bardem was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Before Night Falls, another of those films that slipped by me in the cinema. Why did it slip by? Well it was a film about a writer, and they tend to be pretty unengaging. Writers, on the whole,[…]

Also known as The Edukators. A German film about youthful political activism which skirts many of its issues without ever really grasping them. Beyond a anti-capitalist rhetoric it is difficult to work out the ideology of the leads, and their situati[…]

Take one Mystic River and replace its cast with that of Stand By Me. Make them watch Deliverance, but not Without A Paddle. Add a surprising shake of Swallows & Amazons, and top it off with a dash of My Two Dads.
That’s how you make a Mean[…]