Time Out offered a free pair of film tickets and a free month rental of DVD’s from LoveFilm two months ago. Usually disdainful of such offers I wondered what I had to lose. Nothing, and I had a free cinema ticket to gain. But whilst signed up I[…]

Two films I saw on Saturday both full of the hell of anticipation. Both dripped with potential tragedy, pre-dripped if you will by their trailers. One worked, one didn’t. The films? The Assassination Of Richard Nixon and Bullet Boy.
TAORN has o[…]

A Media Guardian article about slavery in the media industry. I could have written this articlae ten years ago, which was also exactly when I no longer worked in telly. Since I worked on a proto-reality show, a format which couples long hours with ex[…]

Can it be judged as anything else? The first stab at Hitler by a German film, and it’s Hitler at his lowest point*. But this film is not really about Hitler, or even the Nazi’s that surround him. It is about Berlin, about the complete and[…]

Quatermass and the Noughties
It was a very strange thing, the BBC4 live remake of Quatermass. The script was barely updated, and yet it was not a period piece otherwise. Instead it lived in a low budget parallel universe where the Tate Modern was a s[…]

FANS QUEUE FOR RUBBISH FILM WHEN IT IS NOT EVEN PLAYING
At least they won’t not be disappointed…
I see that George Lucas suggests that Revenge Of Taking The Piss is a more mature movie. What, does that mean it will have fart gags in then?[…]

“Eric, YOU’RE FIRED!”, or The Dungeon Master’s Apprentice

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Think about it: a bunch of hapless chancers, likeable to varying and questionable degrees, find themselves trapped in an arcane world, strange and unfamiliar to who[…]

The Case Of The Dark Knight’s Returns
It was actually quite hard to connect the Poptimizer up to a DVD player, so instead we had to float one above it by a few feet (These images will convince no-one).
However to the case at hand. Which Batman […]

I have seen nearly every Ring film in the cinema (the one I am missing is the Korean one, which I believe may be the best as it does not have spooky kid). Anyway, I was interested by The Ring 2 mainly because it was the original Ringu and Ringu 2 dir[…]

Casanova
There’s a song by Peaches called ‘Casanova’ on a bonus disc that came with some copies of her first album. The song is about Peaches and her (female) friend Mignon planning a threesome, in which the (male) third party is cl[…]