Sometimes I do year end lists, sometimes I don’t. I saw 124 films in the cinema last year. Of those, I am pretty sure I missed some really good ones (personal circumstances limited ability to see stuff near the end – some I have yet to se[…]

I know very little about anime and manga. I know that an awful lot of what I have seen (Appleseed etc) is fusty over-complex ropey second hand sci-fi. Possibly as befits cartoons made of fiendishly complex on-going narrative storylines. That said one[…]

aka t.A.T.u II: What ever happened to t.A.T.u: The Movie?
A few years ago, I blogged about the t.A.T.u Anime movie in production in Japan. t.A.T.u: PARAGATE apparently was to show our plucky lipstick (not) lesbians gamely saving the world from some s[…]

When a tabloid journalist wants to find out the dirt about a celebrity what do they do? Well these days they probably talk to their publicist and between them they concoct a story between them which gets the sleb some column inches and the journo the[…]

OK, from the FUTURESPORTS desk on last nights FT & The Lollards Of Pop we first take a look at Keirin which chief engineer Carsmile Steve cited as the closest we get to Rollerball in actual sport. OK, there is a scooter involved SOMETIMES, but as[…]

I am sure a fuller discussion of the virtues and vices of The Golden Compass: The Movie will be forthcoming on FT soon, but a quick mention must be made of the Golden Compass QUIZZER which we saw afterwards. Fast work from IND:E games and lavish pr[…]

There is a moment when critics unleash their wrath on a particular film which is akin to bear baiting. Except often the film is not the cinematic equivalent of a bear, and the lashing is completely justified. Two films have been savaged by critics th[…]

The idea behind Steve Niles comic and the subsequent film is so delicious (vampires in an Alaskan town where the sun doesn’t come up for a month) that it sort of writes itself. The problem is you should never let films write themselves, as cell[…]

Unlike the current trailer for the Iron Man film, which could not resist using the Black Sabbath track, Ratatouille avoids the use of “Rat In The Kitchen” throughout. Indeed like most Pixar films it eschews the sentimental song in favour of a sur[…]

what film is most often shown on UK TV? i vote tremors — and i know bcz i watch it EVERY TIME (and so does my dad)[…]