After Hours (1985)After getting off work, a young protagonist makes the twin mistakes of a) going out for a coffee, and b) phoning a woman he's met. From there it's a screw-turning agony of Sod's law screenwriting, with our would-be-Casanova spending the rest of the night getting tarred, feathered and re-tarred - more-or-less literally, at times ( Read more... )

I was just listening to Nick Cave's rendition of Pulp's "Disco 2000" when it hits me - his voice does just drip murderous intent, doesn't it? He doesn't sound like he's trying to spin the song - in a way, he really just sounds like he's trying his best to keep up with the tempo! But intentionally or not, when he wraps those vocal chords around "you ( Read more... )

Destricted (2006)

In which seven film-makers were commissioned to make short films about what sex and pornography meant to them - the seven pieces then being put back to back to form the work that is Destricted. Not everything gels - one piece is, in short, some guy jerking off in Death Valley - while another finds a gentleman bafflingly ( Read more... )

I don't know how firm a grasp we, as a species, really have on love. Love being, naturally, quite the slippery concept. Where exactly does "I love you" end and "I like you very, very, very much" begin?

Whatever the case, by my reckoning, there have been two girls in my life to fit firmly into the previous category. To make me fall head over heels ( Read more... )

Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)Possibly the single most ho-ho-homosexual film ever to be released by a major studio. It's hard to escape the idea of the PR meeting where Anne Rice pitched the script to the bosses at Warner Bros, enthusedly gushing: "it's Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Sucking on each other!". Surely that ( Read more... )

Mean Streets (1973)

Great Scorcese flick that gives DeNiro a rare chance to be the 'jumping on tables and calling you a jerk off' type that normally goes to Pesci, while Keitel gets to grips with the more typically DeNiro role. Not one of the more essential DeNiro/Scorcese collabs, but a great flick by any other measure.

Ocean's Eleven (2001)Way ( Read more... )

Today being April the 1st - the two year anniversary of my being hit by a freakin' car - I thought I'd write a really fuck-off 'down' entry about life, the universe and everything. Just for the fuck of it ( Read more... )

Revolver (2005)A sea of one-star reviews surround Guy Ritchie's latest, but if you'll allow me to take a quick stand - I fuckin' love it. As a piece of film-making, it's just astounding - a visually glorious work of art. Perhaps epitomised best in the scene where Jason Statham goes through a car window in delicately detailed super slow-motion, ( Read more... )

So, I was scouting out the IMDB to try and see if I had a fancy for anything playing at the local cinema.

I notice Epic Movie has a 2.2/10 and, accordingly, is the 39th worst film ever made. I snoop around a little more, because this isn't enough to sway me away from a film that promises to lampoon the most self-important and over-rated arse-fluff ( Read more... )

Waking Life (2001)

For the second time. Remains a brilliant, awe-inspiring and mind-blowing exploration of life, the universe and everything whipped up with some dazzling animation.

Dr. No (1962)

For the nth time. Action, adventure, sex, spying... great times.

Smokin' Aces (2007)A bit disappointing. Some really juicy big, dumb shoot-'em-up ( Read more... )