Or rather, a couple of them, and a rather good one.

First up, the good one - R-Point is a Korean film that essentially mashes up the not-so-well-known story of the Korean army in Vietnam with the by-now very familiar tropes of Far Eastern horror films. It uses a lot of classic, possibly slightly over-familiar imagery - blood pouring from radios, a ( Read more... )

I just tried to post a Facebook update apologising to anyone awaiting an email response from me, as all my webmail accounts are currently fucked...

...only to find I'm currently unable to update Facebook either.

Seeing as I've managed to visit quite an impressive array of art shows in the last week or so, I thought I'd gather them all together into one update...

First of all, Damien Hirst's No Love Lost, which wasn't offensively bad, just entirely inconsequential. The repeated motifs of skulls, lemons, and so forth, with accompanying perspective lines ( Read more... )

Okay, admittedly I'm just nicking things from the Disinfo feed, and would have probably emailed people these if my email had been working, but it isn't so here are some cool things...

The Frightening Beauty of Bunkers is one man's thoughts and photos of bunkers along the French coastline just after the war. The pictures are evocative enough, but ( Read more... )

I've recently been watching rather a lot of Fringe, by the chaps who brought us Lost, partly because it's only available on VOD until 18th Oct (thanks for the relaxed viewing window Warner Channel!), and partly because it's rather entertaining ( Read more... )

I think there is quite a good indictment of the rather half-hearted switch to the metric system in this country, and subsequent teaching of measurements, in that when ordering my graduation gown I kept having to switch between metric and imperial, as I know my height and chest size in inches, but I only know my hat size in centimetres ( Read more... )

It's depressing to realise, having listened to the radio all morning, that party politics has now reached this level ( Read more... )

As the list of films I haven't got round to writing up yet is getting longer and longer, here's a quick run-through of those I have seen recently, in no particular order...

The Hurt Locker is a truly tremendous film, one of my favourites of the year so far, following a team of US army bomb disposal technicians in Iraq, particularly the ( Read more... )

I think it is both odd and rather amusing that in between directing Pusher, Bleeder, etc and directing the more recent Bronson, Nicholas Winding Refn found the time to direct a Miss Marple TV movie in the US.

Here's something I didn't know about - if you're planning on selling any CDs, books, graphic novels, vinyl, magazines, film & TV memorabilia, etc on eBay, do it before 19th October, because after that time, you'll be forced to offer free postage and packing on any of these items you auctionSo unless you're a retailer who can get preferential ( Read more... )