Blog posts by year and monthJune 2010
Posts (9)
The movie songs that could almost have been real
As Russell Brand's new movie Get Him to the Greek parties onto our cinema screens the muse of fake movie songs offers up a pantheon of parallel pop classics such as "Furry Walls." But who else has made the greatest fake pop songs of all time and what are they? Well, The Rutles, obviously...
World Cup Special
In the world of movies the World Cup in South Africa is a good thing, but perhaps not for the reasons you imagine... and if you are not football crazy, football mad, how else might you gratify that cinephile urge?
Did someone actually make a good case for 3d?
There's a new movie out in 3D. Toy Story 3D. I liked it. A lot. Almost made me forget Avatar, Alice in Wonderland in 3D and all the rest of that point-in-the-eye trickery that passes for cinematic entertainment these days. But before you all get too excited at this apparent volte-face I have two...
Horrors of the Past
Aliens, Jaws, Poltergeist... of course these and all those other inappropriate videos and DVDs scared you half to death when you were kids, but what about some of your other nightmare movies: The Neverending Story anyone?!
5 live review: Brooklyn's Finest
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Brooklyn's Finest. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Hay, Hay Let's Go
After a weekend of relentless celebrity-oriented activity at the Hay literary festival and the BAFTAs I am now more comfortably back among my own people, i.e. you lot. Still, lot's to tell... and by the way, check out News 24 this weekend and you might get a glimpse of the pilot for a new movie ...
Herzog, Cage and You
Herzog won't cop to any Ferrara influences on his particular species of Bad Lieutenant, but some of you are not so sure: just one observation of many from those among you who felt my review did not treat der meister's latest opus with due respect...
The Movies Inside Jim Thompson
A few brutal moments in Michael Winterbottom's movie adaptation of Jim Thompson's searing portrait of a sociopath, The Killer Inside Me, has kindled the inevitable debate about violence on film. I know where I stand.
French Lesson
Ah Cannes, so long ago now and yet a gaggle of Godardians were most distrait following my review of Jean Luc's latest addition to his oeuvre, the unmitigated disaster that is Film Socialisme, but with due respect for your views, allow me to explain myself.
