(The Guardian Weekend magazine on a Saturday has a recurring section, where they ask the same questions each week to celebrities and interesting people. I thought I’d apply them to some superheroes only without the stupid question about radiators or air conditioning. Seriously, what are they thinking with that?) The…
Audition Audition is a rather dull film until the last half hour. A man loses his wife to sickness and, after seven years as a widower, he has a friend who fakes an audition for a film in order for him to meet someone. He picks a girl and starts…
Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Killian Plunkett This is a great story concept – What if Superman was a commie? It brings a smile to the face just saying it out loud. It genuinely subverts the basis of the mythos and uses it for something entirely new,…
I really shouldn't see a film after the Oscar nominations are announced; it colours the way I see the film. 'Why does this deserve to be nominated?' my annoying inner voice shouts. There were a lot of women in the cinema I saw the film, for two main reasons: it…
There has been much talk about the death of the studio-based sitcom in the UK of late (there have been two programmes on it in recent weeks), after the success of The Office and The Thick Of It, with their documentary styles. So The IT Crowd hits our television sets…
A Cock and Bull Story is a film about the making of a film adaptation of the reputedly unfilmable novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. Written in 1760, it is considered something of a classic by value of the fact that it is post-modern…
The Oscar nominations are here again. Even though I rarely get it right, I thought I would have a look at the major Oscar categories and make some predictions. Take note that I haven’t seen some of the films, due to the fact that some haven’t come out in the…
Nextwave #1 by Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen and Wade von Grawbadger I thought I should stem the potential tide of negativity that my Trimming the Collection reviews might create by waxing rhapsodic about a comic that will definitely stay in the collection. Nextwave is funny. That is all you need…
Channel Zero by Brian Wood; sorry, 'created, written and illustrated by' The excessive credits for Wood on the front cover should have given me a hint about what to expect. Something where the author (if that isn’t too limiting a description for Mr Wood) believes they know better, is going…
I recently got the Ultimate box set of Back to the Future and was rewatching the sequels again. At the end of BTTF3, I suddenly thought about Doc & Clara’s existence – what happens to them and the kids? Clara was supposed to have died; she is now out of…