I think I've gotten to know you well enough to share with you. Hope I'm not being too forward. As a man, it is a biological imperative that I not cry as a result of watching a film. I do not know why this is so; perhaps it is because…
As someone who enjoys watching films perhaps more than average, I enjoy films that love films. This can be a film that has nods/homages/steals from other films, little Easter eggs dotted throughout, to films that are about films and film-making. Some people think it far too incestuous, a cinematic navel-gazing…
Incoming Inventory – 13 July To make up for last week’s barren list, this week the publishers of the ninth art provide me with periodicals: 100 Bullets #74 I’ve been reading this for too long to switch to the trades now, so I look forward to my monthly hit of…
(What follows is an article I wrote about comic book movies that I was considering sending out to publications. I never felt very happy about it, so it never saw the light of day. However, I thought I should put it on my blog, as an indicator of my writing…
Well, I may have wished to see the show live, but it doesn’t appear I missed anything, based on the always-funny minute-by-minute blogging by Tom, the lovely folks at Empire magazine and dear old BBC. It also meant I didn’t stay up late fruitlessly, which would’ve fucked me up for…
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…
I need to read the small print but it appears that my employers require me to work for my salary. Outrageous. In lieu of a post containing my unfettered ramblings, I thought I’d rely on the link-apalooza post to keep me regular, as it were … Is this the new…
A bit all over the place, which might mean I'm coming down with whatever illness is beating my girlfriend's immune system at the moment. Still, might be fun, eh? First all, don't mention St Patrick's Day. I'm half Irish and I get annoyed by the way the festival has been…
Marty missed out again, making it the third time an actor-director has beaten him to the director Oscar, after Robert Redford with the boring Ordinary People, and Kevin Costner, who went on to make The Postman. The other two times he lost to Barry Levinson, who directed Toys and Sphere,…
Blog notice: I've added a bunch of blogs to the links list, most importantly adding Tom the Dog to the list after all this time, which is incredibly embarrassing as he is not only one of the guys I enjoy reading the most but he was the first guy to…