Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I’ve never seen a Planet of the Apes movie before, put off by the dodgy rubber masks and by having watched five minutes of the Tim Burton one. Yet Andy […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill
Below is a photo of me opening a Woody Allen boxset which my colleague Alex took for reasons I can only describe as racist. Allen has pretty much directed one […]
On iPlayer: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of French Elle, suffered a major stroke, leaving him completely paralysed apart from a single eyelid. He painstakingly dictated his memoirs to his assistant, Claude […]
Crumb
Often cited as one of the best documentaries ever made, 1994’s Crumb is a portrait of underground cartoonist, artist and musician Robert Crumb and his family. Being something of a philistine, I’d […]
Video Nasty 16: The Driller Killer
In 1983, the British Director of Public Prosecutions produced a list of movies banned on home video – a list which would come to include 72 “video nasties” in total. […]
Garfield or The Things I Do For This Blog…
Due to a combination of insomnia and missing my cats, I’ve recently become a big fan of Garfield and his cartoon non-adventures. So I decided to take it upon myself […]
Blog: 5 Reasons Why Iron Man 3 Sucked
I recently re-watched Iron Man 3 in the hope of discovering its hidden brilliance that everyone seemed to see but me. I didn’t succeed in that, but what I did do is […]
The Brother From Another Planet
This blaxploitation sci fi asks what would happen if an alien arrived who looked like a black man and instead of landing in a blaze of media to speak to […]
BASEketball
Two lowlifes invent a sport which is like basketball but with some elements of baseball to win a bet and impress a girl. When the game goes big they blah […]
ExpendaBelle Watch: 10 Actors We’d Love to See
With the buzz around Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables films it’s unsurprising studio bosses have been eyeing up a female answer to the sausage-heavy meat fest. I’m imagining something like Michael Bay does Sex […]
