Blade III should be rubbish. Frankly that Blade or Blade II were any good beggared much belief and was basically due to rather flashy direction and surprising conviction in the casts. You can dress up the vampire mythos in as much flashy clothing as […]

Riding Giants proves more than many of last years cinema documentaries that as long as you get your structure right, you can make anything interesting. I am not someone who is vaguely interested in extreme sports, and surfings only boon in my life ha[…]

There are a number of sequences in Enduring Love which were filmed right outside my office. They are some of the better parts of the film (my office gives it that extra gravitas I think). Its not a bad film on the whole, but does suffer from the enti[…]

PRESENTERATOR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Jimmy Carr
List TV died about two years ago, having been saturated to the level of absurdity. Nevertheless it does have a place in the schedules as an undemanding extra person in the room prompting you to remember, arg[…]

Lemony Snicket’s Series Of Unfortunate Events leaves its credits to the end. Which is probably a good thing considering they consist of some wonderfully evocative silhouette based animation which is both much more in keeping with the tone of th[…]

It is good to see that despite a blip with Tigerland, Joel Schumacher has returned to stake his claim as the worst director in Hollywood. Whilst I did not expect The Phantom Of The Opera to be any good, I did not in my wildest dreams expect it to be […]

Finally, and apologies for lateness which was caused by a fire at my workplace. (I did not start the fire. It was always burning since the world was turning.)

FT TOP 100 FILMS
1: SPY KIDS
Martin Skidmore says:
This list was put together in the last […]

Being back home means being back in front of the telly again for the first time in a little while. Also, because it’s Christmas it also means looking at the listings in the Radio Times, which throws up a few depressing tidbits, such as the fact[…]

Miike again – surprisingly, Izo doesn’t seem to have made much of an impact since its UK premiere a few months ago. Unsurprisingly, it made quite the impact on me. Difficult, though not for the reasons one would have expected. The almost […]

Who is Jonathan Creek
During the recent FT server move, a massive and improbable system error generated this oddity on our new “essays” blog. Somehow it also managed to be published BACK IN TIME.[…]