LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR

There’s only two kinds of really great films. There’s the stimulating films like Persona or Chien Andalou, fascinatingly inscrutable parable...

PLOT SPOILERS occur here (if not of the size of the beast that besets Manhattan about twenty minutes in… oh bugger, that’s a spoiler in itse...

In case you haven’t heard this sad news already, comics writer Steve Gerber died in Las Vegas last Sunday. Though Gerber had lately retur...

I haven't bothered watching it.

PLOT SPOILERS happen big time in what follows… Before you ask, no this will not be another snobby burial of a Hollywood action film. Fo...

"This is my review of the film of the The Golden Compass. It tells the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by your...

I love it when someone smart-sounding turns out to have come quite separately to the same conclusions as me. However, while it gives a nice ...

1. An Antidote to Biopics Only recently I was bemoaning the paradox that while technology has made it so much easier for us to re-watch fil...

GIGS OF 2007 Seeing as I seem to have given up writing about gigs all year (with one solitary exception), I’m just going to anally list the...

Nothing so neat or arbitrary as a Top Ten here, I’m just going to list things that feel worth listing until I run out. The list goes on awhi...