Posted in Politics, Rant, Stage on Nov 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I am probably the most politically-correct person I know.
For example, I once spent hours agonising over a brief synopsis for The Singing Ringing Tree to ensure that I correctly distinguished between dwarfs and dwarves.
(for your information, the former are small humans; the latter, fantasy creatures. When we speak of being ‘plagued by evil dwarves’ we […]
Posted in Rant on Nov 6th, 2007 8 Comments »
It was horrible.
Steve Coogan’s giant, lopsided face loomed above me, leering hideously.
But no - this wasn’t some drug-addled night-time catastrophe!
I was sat in my local cinema, watching the opening scenes from Hot Fuzz, and the projectionist had failed to attach the anamorphic lens to the projector.
After, oooh, ten minutes or so (and after several members […]
Posted in Blockbusters, Rant, Sequels on Oct 16th, 2007 10 Comments »
In the innocent days of my youth, I had little time for intangibles such as artistic quality.
For me, the worth of a film was directly related to how long it was. Any film that tipped over the two hour mark gained merit simply by virtue of the attention span it demanded of me to sit […]
Posted in New releases, Rant, World Cinema on Oct 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
As those who know me will attest, I am normally quite a calm person, but certain things make me fly into an uncontrollable rage.
The first of these is lupins. The other is the use of transliterated English words in the titles of Japanese films.
Let me explain what I mean.
A few days ago, I was adding […]