In a 2008 essay that I still refer to because I am too lazy to read new things, Rana Dasgupta speaks of the 'brick wall of the imagination' in reference to the unceasing trend for disaster movies. In discussing the two versions of The Time Machine, he notes how the newer version cannot imagine a future for us or a moral order in which things could ( Read more... )

We watched the TV Mapp and Lucia last night, made in the 80s when ITV produced good things and I guess anything 20s/30s was so in vogue even obscure comic novels were snapped up for a TV treatment.

It's weird. I'm suprised to find I love it, and that Geraldine McEwan is amazing, but in a totally different way to the Lucia I had in my head. She's so ( Read more... )

This whole thing could probably be edited. Anyway ( Read more... )