As I settled down to watch the Incredibles I thought, “Hmm, I would really quite like a French poster of this film”. Why? Well the French world for Incredible, Incroyable, is probably my favourite Gallic word. It sounds like the English v[…]

(Obviously compiling this list a few weeks before December means that true Christmas spirit had not settled in amongst the electorate. However one must imagine this is exactly the same problem that the TV schedulers have when programming Supergirl on[…]

In ensemble films, the credits often come up in alphabetical order. This can create a few problems with nominal star billing, but promotes the idea that all the actors are equal and were just part of a big gang in filming. Nevertheless the big stars […]

The revisionist logic of the ‘New Cold War’ is worked through in the ideological forging-house of Amazon.com customer reviews:
‘As you might expect, a 70 year old communist propoganda film is not gripping entertainment.
The first &#[…]

Crocodile Dundee is a truly wretched film. In short it is merely an extended version of Paul Hogan’s Fosters commercials, stretched out to an hour and a half. And what a tedious, prospect that is. “Can you tell me the way to Cockfosters?&[…]

I expected badness from the new version of The Manchurian Candidate. I expected the ground to shift to corporations, attempts at satirising US politics and a watering down of the po-faced conspiracy side to accommodate a modern thriller plot. I was r[…]

OUR CHIP’S BIGGER THAN YOURS! Blah blah Playstation 3 chip announced, blah blah 16 trillion floating point operations per second, blah blah bells and whistles blah blah….
I won’t care until they start talking in TERAFLOPS! Computer […]

It’s probably not number one, it’s…
So the axe sort of falls on TOTP, shifting it sideways and down a bit to Sunday eventide on BBC2, and doing a bodge-job merging of it with Top Of The Pops 2 which got axed itself a few months ago […]

A handy, if dubious, piece of advice I once received (slightly too late to be useful, alas) was this: when encountering a subject for the first time, have no shame about the triviality of the source. Brief, simple sources are less likely to be opinio[…]

SPECIAL ZELDA EDITION GAMEBOY ADVANCE SP in gold with the Triforce EMBLAZONED on the top bundled with The Minish Cap!!
My palms are quite frankly ITCHING with desire. Must resist urge to check my bank balance…[…]