Set yr videos. Just a quick reminder (mainly because I know I’ll forget). The BBC is repeating The Power OF Nightmares this week on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday after Newsnight. And handily just before you go to sleep and have actual nigh[…]

Alexander The GayTe. Ho ho ho…
Alexander is a very silly movie, but surprisingly good fun. Surprising considering it is three hours long. It ditches any idea of historical authenticity the moment Tony Hopkins’ Ptolemy rears his head, and […]

PLUS ALSO CHILD-FOSTERING as SHTICK wtf??:
the Txtin Reviewers Collective declare that we require JUDGE JOHN DEED ep in which the entire court-room is made up of his entire family (so that eg the defendent gets to send the head of the jury to bed w/[…]

Rockumentaries = Spnl Tp.
Proof: End Of The Century: The Ramones Story which ticks off in band arguments, amusing tales of childhood, acrimonious splits over women. It is of course not as funny as Rob Reiner’s movie because-
Actually one bit is[…]

REMEMBER REMEMBER THE JUDGE OF, er, January (sorry, that didn’t work). Anyway! I do hope that readers do not forget that the new series of JUDGE JOHN DEED is on tonight at 8pm! Ah, lovely stuff, an ex-Professional becomes a Judge with a serious[…]

Evidence for Scooby Doo as post-modern epic.
It is only funny in self-reference, cf: ‘Scoob and Shaggy you go that way, me and the girls will go this way’ : *roll eyes* ‘Now why don’t I like the sound of that’. There wa[…]

IT’S WHAT WE WATCH TV FOR
since the “GG leaves BB” story even got onto NEWSNIGHT fr god’s sake, I’m not gnna expand on it too tough => so hence some stuff off the top of my head i. interesting that it took an actual rea[…]

The Inheritance is a dour Danish film which was probably paid for by the Swedish Tourist Board. It has at its heart a simple dilemma:
Given the choice do you
a) Stay with you lovely wife and child in Stockholm (which is always sunny) where you run a […]

There is a moment in Vera Drake (it is in the trailer too so you don’t actually have to go and see the film) when the police turn up and ask to see Vera. Previously the family have been having a party, and the police intrude. Imelda Staunton ac[…]

Great Television Listings Of Our Time, pt. 95822:
BBC1, next Monday:
9:15 a.m. – Beat the Burglar
Dominic Littlewood presents a home security series where a family watches every second of their house being burgled so it will never happen to th[…]