I am not sure why I was looking forward to Rich Hall’s Election Special. After all, I though Rich Hall’s Fishing Show, his previous effort for BBC4, was not any good. But having enjoyed another spin of his Otis Lee Crenshaw character at E[…]

On the subject of resurrecting the dead (see return of YS below) Only Fools and Horses spin-off series
God damn you all to hell![…]

A spectrum from the Past
Go out now and get your copy of Retro Gamer 9. (Available at CEX last time I looked, and on that first link). And for why? Because it comes with a free 32-page extra magazine: Issue 94 of Your Sinclair (nee Spectrum). Reviewe[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS 14: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
“You could just like it becaue its a good movie,” my flatmate said when I mentioned the next film on the list that had taken me well over a week to get back to was 10 Things I Hate About You[…]

London Film Festival: the hot news is, fuck the London Film Festival. It’s a kind of test case for reception theory: I used to think, sponsors be damned, here is an opportunity to watch lots of skill films. But such is the intensity of branding[…]

It won stuff at Cannes, is tremendously over the top and violent and yet the film that Oldboy reminded me of the most was Amélie. Not just because it employs a visual toolbox which encompasses state of the art digital trickery along with some wonder[…]

Channel 4: Not Rubbish
04:35 Honda F4-Stroke Powerboat Race Series
Navigational errors cause race upsets in the penultimate rounds of the 2004 Honda Formula 4-Stroke 150hp championship at the Honda British Grand Prix in Plymouth.
Perhaps I should […]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
A sadly lacking game. Six or so out of ten. Come back Driv3r, all is forgiven.
Oh alright, bigger review coming.[…]

The problem with short films is that you nearly always see them in collections. I remember at the Dublin Film Festival seeing a whole day of shorts, mainly local ones, that the only ones that really stuck out were the really ropey ones. A good short […]

Stay behind after class
So, the fourth series of teachers has started on C4 with very little fanfare. I guess everyone else round here has given up on it, but I saw the beginning of the first ep on Tuesday. Since Andrew Lincoln (or Egg, as he&#8217[…]