[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr7Opycx_yY&fs=1&hl=en_GB] Peter Mullan’s last film, the award-winning The Magdalene Sisters, was about vulnerable young women suffering oppression and brutality at the hands of some over-zealous nuns. In NEDS he presents sarcasm, cynicism and the oft-wielded strap as the chief weapons… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvzyPMa82I&fs=1&hl=en_GB] Poetry can seriously damage your health. That’s the main thing I’ve learned from recent biopics in which Johnny Depp’s pox-ridden John Wilmot (The Libertine), Ben Whishaw’s consumptive Keats (Bright Star) and Gwyneth Paltrow’s depressive Sylvia Plath (Sylvia) have cornered… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMJmJNii4Y&fs=1&hl=en_GB] When digital technology fails you, sometimes it’s good to fall back on the virtues of a 35mm print, a new piano score, and one of London’s finest cinemas. I watched Hitchcock’s The Ring, at the Barbican, after two recent… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeudQ3MQnVw&fs=1&hl=en_GB] He shared a bath with Laurence Olivier (Spartacus), a bed with Janet Leigh (the first of his six wives) and was one half of a flamboyant 70s crime-fighting duo with Roger Moore in The Persuaders. But despite his luxuriant… Continue Reading →
Film School Rejects recently posted a list of the best — and worst — movie collaborations between directors and their spouses. It seems those capricious movie gods have decreed that for every Oscar-winning gem like Fargo (Joel Coen directs Frances… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZ07vU7GjI&fs=1&hl=en_GB] How do you make a football out of an inflated condom, a plastic bag and a piece of string? Pay close attention to the opening scene of this colourful postscript to World Cup 2010 and you might just find… Continue Reading →
“BEN MILLER’S HUGE” shouted the poster ads for a play about a pair of aspiring comedians, which was produced on the Edinburgh Fringe back in 1993. Seventeen years on, Ben Miller – one half of a double act with Alexander… Continue Reading →
David Morrissey, one of my favourite actors, is back on TV this weekend in what Radio Times describes as the “dramatisation of a uniquely disturbing real-life case”. I think it’s fair to say that Morrissey has had his share of… Continue Reading →
“Don’t you see, the complexity is what makes it all so brilliant!” For those who found Inception simply annoying and convoluted, those jokers at CollegeHumor.com have recently produced the instructional video “Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception”. In it, an increasingly… Continue Reading →
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