04 November 2019
31 December 2019
New Year Resolutions For Movie Characters
2020 is upon us..and, by extension, also on all of those movie characters whose company we sometimes share..so here are some tips for their New Year! What a year! What a decade! Marvel owned the day / month/year/decade. DC lagged behind but caught up in the end. James...
11 December 2019
Boris Johnson and the Kingdom of the Crystal Fridge: UK faces an election tomorrow. So we are facing Indiana Jones..
When is a Fridge More than Just a Fridge? When a figure of cultural interest hides /escapes within said Chamber of Cold. ‘Nuke the Fridge‘ has displaced / replaced ‘jump the shark’ as the synonym for the point at which a brand / hero / series shifts from...
Happy Halloween! But a very Unspectacular Dracula?
So, BBC Dracula trailer: Live, Launched..or rather..Living Dead? I have some Reservations.. DRACULA. I get it. There is an unending need to reinvent him for each generation. Because he is the definitive villain. As Christopher Lee put it; ‘Dracula is aristocratic; hypnotic; he is demonic; he is erotic‘....
Official Secrets! Keira Knightley does some top level super secret spy shit in ultra SERIOUS Film for SERIOUS viewers and Guardian Readers!
OFFICIAL SECRETS: A film SO officially secret..that you MIGHT just Forget to see it..or worse still..actually GO and see it and REMEMBER it? nb: I am not ‘reviewing’ this. Not seen it. All I will say is.. Official Secrets features KEIRA KNIGHTLEY. Keira, lovely Keira. That one wot...
13 October 2019
Martin Scorsese to Make a MARVEL movie!
STOP THE PRESS! THIS JUST IN! MARTY MEETS MARVEL? It was only a matter of time. The greatest custodian of cinematic culture marries the source of popular popcorn product, in an actual comic book movie?! Yep. Turns out all that trash talking was a big wind up....
