It occurs to me that I've been going on about this film for nearly twenty years, ever since it was first commissioned (in its original, shorter form) by the BBC. In that time, I've taped it off the telly, acquired the DVD (which includes the later, added scenes shot by the director in extremis), and had an e-mail correspondence with the composer ( Read more... )

I'll skip my inevitable grumbles about the plot holes in The Adjustment Bureau (because trying to fathom why Emily Blunt's character didn't just bloody well get in touch with Matt Damon during one of the sojourns - he's supposed to be a politician, so how hard could it be? - hurts my massive brain), and dive into the leading cinematic question of ( Read more... )

Robert Fuest's 1973 film adaptation of Michael Moorcock's The Final Programme (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070289/) has been chopped into ten chunks, and uploaded to YouTube by "RetrospectaVideo". (Moorcock hated the film, thought Jon Finch was miscast as Jerry Cornelius, and has ( Read more... )

...wasn't in the Granada Television series, but in the 1976 film adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's The Seven Per Cent Solution. It's a curious, rarely-seen little monstrosity, notable for (among other things) Robert Duvall's credibility-stretching English accent (he actually sounds French at times, but plays Dr. Watson with a nicely Canonical limp), ( Read more... )

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In the case of Resident Evil: Afterlife, it's the return of slack-mouthed overbite victim, and all-round non-actress Ali bloody Larter:

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Count me out.

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Aiming for the Nethead vote, Gordon Brown proves for the umpteenth time that he really doesn't "get" what the Web's about, and threatens to turn Great Britain into a half-arsed steampunk/Terry Gilliam's Brazil-style version of China...or something ( Read more... )

Unlike feeble excuses to keep Billie Piper's "acting" career going, fill vacant post-pub Friday night slots on Channel 4 with badly-researched YouTube fodder, or provide Meryl Streep with opportunities to literally ham it up, there is a place in mainstream media for material derived from Internet phenomena. Whether or not you think the forthcoming ( Read more... )

Director of The Railway Children, and also a more personal favourite film, The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) based on Antonia Barber's brilliant 1969 novel for children, The Ghosts. Here he is acting (and singing) as Grandfather Potts in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, when he was only 42, and younger than the actor playing his son, Dick Van Dyke:

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There'll be a lengthier entry later...probably...on other film-related matters, but I just need to get this out of the way first.

There's an article by Chris M. about Philip K. Dick in the Black Sun Gazette which is guilty of a couple of things, one of 'em being fellating a dead writer. Its other crime is a little more serious - I've underlined ( Read more... )