Apparently this is bullshit, but if Oliver Stone needs a scriptwriter with local knowledge… accept no substitutes.[…]

DALI MEETS DAHL
No, that would be too fucking glib. But its about time Tom Burton made a good film and even if he arses up this version of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, this day-glo trailer is already a queasy classic.[…]

Two docs in shaky-cam.
1: Mondovino, in cinemas today, arguably the best of this year’s documentary explosion. Like The Corporation it’s an investigation of global capitalism, but rooted in a concrete analysis of one product: wine, openin[…]

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3: BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Who are Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan? What lessons can we learn from their excellent adventure? Perhaps the only lesson is the piece of philosophy which, onc[…]

Politics Can’t Kill The Situationist International. Not really DYS, but this needs attention. Having spent the ’70s making trad-left agit-prop plays, David Edgar now sees the ‘light’: ‘Thirty years later, the miners&#821[…]

A heart-warming and implicitly anti-rockist letter to The Times from an Oxford legend:
Sir, The outcry against David and Victoria Beckham as Joseph and Mary is risible. What character tests were imposed on the persons so portrayed in the churches and[…]

ONE LINE FILM REVIEW:
Aaltra is a Belgian Inside I’m Dancing, but without the dancing inside bit.[…]

Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling? Not as much as rockism itself, and the upcoming NFT ‘Easy Riders, Raging Hormones I [Heart] the ’70s’ Fest provides plenty of that. The programme notes posit an[…]

Napoleon Dynamite as a film is a canvas stretched thinly over its 86 minute running time. Nevertheless as a comedy where nearly all the laughs rely on the deadpan responses of its characters to the other grotesques in the film, it is remarkably succe[…]

“In my box are such delights…”: 1 of 3.
The Box Of Delights DVD does itself no favours by opening with a montage of adverts for other BBC “children’s classics” – The Chronicles Of Narnia, The Borrowers, Five […]