FT TOP 100 FILMS
7: WARGAMES
Would you like to play a game?
WarGames did. It played with the fear that the western military is a self-absorbed doomsday machine whose only job is to drag the world into annihilation. It toyed with a grim technophobia, […]

Received wisdom on Layer Cake was the shock that Matthew Vaughn (erstwhile Guy Ritchie producer) turned out to be a better director than Ritchie himself. LAZY LAZY LAZY! Yes, Layer Cake is a striking effort, but considering where Vaughn is in his car[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
8: REAR WINDOW
Martin Skidmore says:
This film has become oddly topical in recent years, with its pre-echoes of reality TV, since it is about sitting there and watching ordinary people go about their lives. The filming of this is bri[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
9: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Think of films whose lead chararcters have bands named after them. Duran Duran – a character in Barberella – were enormously successful. Travis have been successful despite being piss poor*. And now […]

Post idea 2: Old film mags had a local-paper quality lost among the glossies: a regular lament was the infelicities of NFT programming. So my two cents is: why seemingly every ruddy film ever made by George Cukor and a very incomplete selection of Li[…]

Carrie Fisher
Roy Scheider
Alan Cumming
Spike Lee
Sean Astin
Verne Troyer
Patrick Swayze
The big question is, who will be next. Predictions here (comments box) and we can see who is right when the next new Orange Film Commission ad comes out (the New[…]

‘Good Morning, Night’ is a brilliant film. I saw it over a year ago and my memory of it is too dim to base a review on, but vivid enough for the fact it’s been slept on to get to me. Perhaps it’s one of those ‘You don&#8[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
10: FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF
Matt DC has a Save Ferris 1986 T-Shirt. It is now 2004.
The character of Ferris Bueller is irresistable. Smart, funny, laconic = iconic. A cool kid, but a nice kid, who just wants to take a day off[…]

I know that Biskind’s Down And Dirty Pictures is not supposed to be an academic piece*. But should he really set his stall out quite so clearly in the foreword (not even the Introduction)? In his summary of 90’s independent films he starts of[…]

The Grudge. Not Ju:on. A film which would like us to believe that not only are ghosts nasty buggers (like the Japanese version) but in the even more unbelievable suggestion that there are so many Americans in Tokyo they have their own social services[…]