There is a rule in the FT Top 100 which means that Tom won’t write about a number one: clearly he is going to write about all of them in Popular. And he is not a million miles away from reaching Carl Douglas’s Kung Fu Fighting: and what&#[…]

There are some lovely spaces in London institutions. The Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern has rarely been filled, but feels majestic in its own right – almost as if to cleanse your art palate before hitting the galleries. Big opening halls in cl[…]

Idiocracy is Mike Judge’s follow up to the under-marketed and thus cult DVD hit Office Space. In many ways Idiocracy shares Office Space’s occasional flashes of brilliance padded around a dullish romantic central point, and is never quite[…]

No. Its not. No more than the society that spawns it. Which would actually make it homophobic, so less so than the society which spawned it. Indeed the fundamental idea behind the film is only funny in a homophobic society. A society which allows a s[…]

(Il Caimano) The Caiman* is Nanni Morretti’s scathing satire about Silvio Berlusconi, released like a stealth bomb in Italian cinemas just before their last election. The Caiman is a relationship comedy about a marriage breaking down. The Caiman is[…]

Last year, no film annoyed me more than All The Kings Men, deathly dull remake of the Robert Penn Warren book, which had already been filmed serviceably. What was wrong with it was an absence of life, and a collection of heritage performances (Sean P[…]

The human being isn’t very good at comprehending quantity (its why there are people with special jobs to survey them). That‘s not just the drunk stating he’s had twenty pints instead of four, or even the same drunk estimating the number of inch[…]

Just in case you haven’t already seen, Alanis Morisette is not only still alive, but she’s covered the Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps!! Her little jagg’d pills perhaps?? Aiee!
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The film Sleeping Dogs (intelligently but less catchily titled Stay in the US, also known as the equally clever and Sleeping Dogs Lie) has one of the best opening lines I can remember hearing in the cinema. Now opening lines are hard to get right, an[…]

It is coming up to the time for the London Palestine Film Festival, which is run by the Palestine Society at SOAS, and has been a rip-roaring success over the past few years. Having gone from a small University only festival, to now having half their[…]