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Where The Wild Things Are - a Christmas cracker…
9th December 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
With the Yuletide season bearing down on us cinemas the world over have turned their attention to the family movie –which on the face of it is not such a bad thing. That said, the highlight of this years seasonal offerings has to be, Where The Wild Things Are. Based on Maurice Sendak’s landmark book of the same name, this cracking turn is directed by Spike Jonze, stars Max Records...
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Oh la la - ‘tres amusant’ indeed
8th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
I’ve always been utterly disdainful of slapstick, pratfalls and silent movie comedies but, will admit, that the Gallic director/star Jacques Tati (France’s main purveyor of such) had me chuckling like good ‘un with, Mon Oncle (1958). As his alter ego, the well meaning, but enormously accident prone, M. Hulot, Tati visits his relatives the Arpels and their incredibly chic friends. Ensconced in Paris, the rather bourgeois family are everything that...
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Christmas is coming, and Disney’s getting fat
6th November 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Christmas is a bit like the flu. You are forced to lie around all day, watch crap TV, consume lots of food you wouldn’t normally eat, and each year both seem to arrive earlier and than the last. This year I had flu fashionably early,setting the trend in July while London’s utterly loathsome and incompetent major, Boris Johnson has been bribed by Disney to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas...
