FT TOP 100 FILMS
17: TRADING PLACES
Swopping is funny. The cinema proves it. The fish out of water scenario is great, all the more so when you get two for the price of one. Trading Places, for all its borderline offensive set-up manages to handle one[…]

MY BRAIN IS NOT AMUSED
Some TV companies put a lot of their budget and effort into making quality programmes that are informative, intelligent and pleasing to look at. Channel 5 make Brainteaser, nuzzled in there between Family Affairs and The Farm. […]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
18: THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Martin Skidmore says:
Someone started a thread some time ago on ILE trying to cast considerable suspicion on people who ‘claim’ this is their favourite movie. It is my favourite movie.
It’s not[…]

End this face-changing madness! I cry over at Proven By Science. There is no question that CGI techniques have totally changed how documentaries are presented, though. I saw Panorama for the first time in ages on Sunday night, a documentary in which […]

Do You See Derrida?
There is little to add to the excellent eulogy to Derrida over on the Brown Wedge here, except to note what a chump Ivan Massow is. Yesterdays G2 had a “What does Derrida mean to you article” to the not that great and […]

Life in the Resident Evil games is mediated through two screens. The obvious one is the inventory, which lets you pick between carryng around plot items (key cards etc), health stuff to keep you alive, and shiny weapons. The other, no less important,[…]

ROLF does REMBRANDT
I’ve always approved of how-it’s-done programmes (cookery, gardening, that funny little ten-minute “tips for” series), even for disciplines i’m not much interested in —> and there’s plain[…]

DARE YOU SEE SAW
I’d like one ticket to see Saw please
I saw Saw last night.
The film is as sophisticated as the gleeful half jokes made out of talking about it. Ie not very, but wonderfully direct. I do not think that I have seen a more narrat[…]

LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY
dir. Miyazaki Hayao
Then again the film should be more accurately called Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta in at least one transliteration, but anyway: Miyazaki is turning into one of those pleasureable ‘catch-up’ experien[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
19: SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT
Anthony Easton says:
Everyone liked this, they liked the crudity and mistook it for sharpness; they liked the absurdity and mistook it for political acumen, they liked the casual inclusion of […]