The Fight movie review: a woman’s struggle is real…
Actor Jessica Hynes makes an astonishing directorial debut with this disconcerting little movie about women’s everyday anger and resentment, and the absolute battle just to get through the day.
Spaced
Early Man movie review: primordial goop
A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.
question of the day: Why do we continue to be George Lucas’s bitch?
Just try to ignore the pull of Star Wars 3D. How do we escape George Lucas’s Svengali-like domination?
cinematic roots of: ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’
In *Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,* Michael Cera is forced to battle, videogame style, his new girlfriend’s (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) ex-boyfriends in order to win her hand. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Bill Bailey’s ode to the wonderfulness of the Doctor
Hilarious. It’s in French (which is part of the joke; Bailey is British) but you’ll still understand almost every single word of it…
watch it: American ‘Spaced’ pilot clips
No. No no no. No. Oh, this is painful. Spaced so does not need to be remade. Certainly not this badly. Why? Why would they do this? This is so wrong. Simon Pegg thinks so too. Fortunately, it appears to have been trashed. Score one for common sense and basic human decency.
a little bit of David Tennant: ‘Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)’
Ah, well, now, when I get to David Tennant’s startling performance in Takin’ Over the Asylum, I’ll get to, as well, a little bit of a discussion about stories about so-called crazy people as the only sane ones among us. But here, in the very first episode of the existential comedy detective series Randall and … more…
Spaced: The Complete Series (review)
I always knew that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and I were soulmates.
