Monthly Archives: July 2006
Time Trumpet
Theres an armando Ianucci show coming on thursday, bbc2 at 10pm. Obviously its armando iannucci so i dont need to speculate on how brilliant its gonna be. Its something like a spoof of clips shows, doing a clip show … Continue reading
Seinfeld
Seinfeld was created by the great larry david, whose excellent improvised sitcom, "curb your enthusiasm" is basically very very good….and funny.So i wanted to check out his previous effort to see if it was any good. It was also the … Continue reading
Bedazzled, Dir:Stanley Donen, 1967, Score: 6
The original version of that liz Hurley film you may have heard of. The original film stars peter cook and dudley moore and, i dont know this but would guess that, its considerably more intelligent (perhaps a little too smug … Continue reading
Ten, Dir: Abbas Kiarostami, 2002, Score:7
An iranian film that basically consists of a series of conversations that a woman had in her car whilst giving people lifts around Tehran. Generally very interesting, and gave a good insight into the way life is in Tehran, primarily for … Continue reading
The Conversation, Dir: Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, Score: 9
About a surveillance expert who becomes entangled in a murder plot. Francis ford coppolas best films arent exactly easy watching but they are generally masterpieces and chilling and profound in their own way. This is just as good as … Continue reading
Trust by Elvis Costello, 1981, Score: 8.5
This came after Get happy (was the first commercially unsuccessful album of his career) and just before imperial bedroom. In terms of the arrangements and the instruments used, this doesnt bare a very strong relation to imperial bedroom and really … Continue reading
Infernal Affairs, Dir: Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak, 2002, Score: 8.5
This was actually the second time i saw this film. First time i gave it 7.5 but i think i enjoyed it more this time. Its a hong kong film so obviously the music was appalling, easily the worst … Continue reading
SubZero, Dir: Boyd Kirkland, 1998, Score: 6
This is a tv movie of the cool but rather flat batman cartoon series, thats the original series that was dark and atmospheric and subtle, not like the fruity futuristic, CITV bullshit batman cartoons they churn out these days. Was a … Continue reading
13 conversations about one thing, Dir: Jill Sprecher, 2001, Score:6.5
Dah, this film was pretty dull. Just some goddamn existentialist NY paperback writing woman telling us how goddamn bleak life is. Several characters, 1 car crash, 1 redundancy, pffffffffffffffffffffffffffff… I cant even be bothered. I like Alan Arkin and … Continue reading
Shorter reviews
Yeh, i waffle way too much when i write reviews anyway. Shorter reviews from now on. Was thinking of doing 3 sentence reviews as a kind of gimick but im too lazy to have to count the number of full … Continue reading
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