I’ve just realised the point of the theme song from Alfie*. It is not just a question: “What’s it all about Alfie?” Rather it is a question which contains its own answer: “What’s it all about? (Its all about) Alfie.&#8[…]

GUESS MY THEORY #3

(the top one wz in conversation at the nft tonight: he is of course v.funny and charming even tho he only ever made one good film) (clue: not by kubrick)[…]

Bad film alert!!! – heartwarming story of rockers fighting the forces of ageism. I’d be more sympathetic if The Alarm had thumbed its nose at the record industry by releasing a – gasp! – good record.[…]

Grabtastic
One can’t really add much to the information on the screen…

Okay, my conscience won’t allow this to go without a little context.
The breaking news strap actually applied to the Palestinian/French denial that Yasser Araf[…]

‘The applause of the French in Cannes for Michael Moore’s 9/11 was the sound of the cement drying over the corpse of Kerry’s chances of carrying the Midwest.’ — Counterpunch.
But Counterpunch also says that the dread sce[…]

What if? There are not enough “what if’s” in modern cinema. Sure there are plenty of “what if we put Kate Hudson in a rom com” questions being asked but the answers are so obvious they do not need to be tested*. Rather I[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
3: David Dimbleby Has The Attention Span Of A Gnat
This is all very BBC-centric I know, but after spending quite some time watching ITV calling it for Kerry against mounting evidence[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
2: “Apparently they’re still voting in Ohio”
Anothe BBC favourite this, when things got a bit quiet they flashed over the the journo with the lime green jacket on i[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
1: In Lieu Of Anything Happening The BBC Became Convinced It Would Be A Draw
About three am GMT, when no new results had come in for about an hour and the various TV panels were clut[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
13: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“It doesn’t feel like three hours”, my companion said as I left the cinema. Perhaps they were not as nuanced at reading their bodies signals. My arse felt the th[…]