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Raging Bull reminded me that sometimes, for a great film, you don’t need a great story. You just need great performances, a convincing setting and a story that works well enough maintain interest. This is, after all, a biopic, about one-time middleweight boxing champion of the world Jake La Motta and his self-destructive personal life. Between ( Read more... )

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His Slaves of the Mastery remains my favourite kids’ book written in the last twenty years, so it was with some excitement I started to read William Nicholson’s Seeker. However, it turned out to be quite a disappointment ( Read more... )

Ahahahah! This is funny.

I'll never complain about the English dub of Naruto again (okay, I will, but less), when the poor Germans have to deal with this!

Joseph Heller wasn’t the first to write in a comic fashion about war. From Aristophanes through Voltaire and to the films of Stanley Kubrick, comedy has always been mixed with the tragedy and the glorious exaltations of patriotism’s finest hours - when men are killing pro patria. I was raised on Blackadder goes Forth and later became infatuated by ( Read more... )

Julien Temple’s first documentary about The Sex Pistols, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, often gets criticised for its bias towards Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren’s version of events and for the fact that it didn’t include John Lydon’s input at all. The Filth and the Fury was much better-received, giving all the band members as well as McLaren ( Read more... )

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