It is overwhelmingly tempting to leave it there. But no! The director whose nightmarishly joyous Americana never fails to confound and entertain has a new music video out and it is definitely something good. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ-aSL0WMEM]
There is an ongoing belief that pop culture is better when it isn’t being ‘political’. Which is a little like saying what the alphabet really needs is less vowels. It’s an epic, biblicly idiotic way of thinking and this week I spent a couple of fun hours watching a movie dedicated to repudiating it. The …
Since shortly after the reign of Charles I, the BBC has had a half hour long film review show called Film XXXX. Admittedly the early years were less a show more an elaborate set of tapestries and plays, it is after all difficult to review a medium that’s still several centuries away from being invented, …
Today’s count is…wow. Look Brave The Dark Knight Rises Battleship Sinister The Possession The Muppets The Bourne Legacy Totalling 9,632 words. From a standing start. I’m CHUFFED:) Also they’re all pretty good. The Muppets one is a little hinky and a couple of the others need an edit pass but I’m pleased. Also…the …
A few years ago I wrote a novel. I like it, quite a lot actually, because it’s exactly the sort of thing I would write if I wrote a novel. The protagonists are a pragmatic female detective, a peppery male journalist and a dutiful, if reluctant and put upon big guy. It’s set in York. …
This is the piece I submitted to the first 48 Hour Magazine, a fascinating project put together by a group of editors who decided to see if they could take a magazine from concept to proof in 48 hours, the concept for the zero issue being the word ‘hustle’. I put this together, on magic, …
Adolescence is skin deep invincibility. You find yourself clamped to the handlebars of a motorcycle with the throttle jammed open, hurtling towards adulthood, sex, money, furniture and everything in between. You can’t turn, you can’t stop and if you slow down the only thing that will happen is every other driver will laugh at you. …
It’s been a busy few weeks, so busy, in fact that ‘Where’s Al?’ needs to be broken up into two entries. First off, let’s take a look at what’s been going on at Hub, Pseudopod and Escape Pod recently.. Podcasting Orrin Grey’s ‘The Worm That Gnaws’ followed Mark Felps’ ‘Raising Eddie’ at Pseudopod. It’s a …
The pantheon of heroic scientists contains some of the greatest names in science fiction; Professor Bernard Quatermass, Professor Henry Jones II, The Doctor and many more. But there’s one in particular who has strode across the world for twenty five years, a man whose genius is matched only by his compassion and musical ability; Doctor …
Happy Anniversary, Doctor Banzai: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
James Cameron is coming home.The director of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens and The Abyss Cameron was, along with Ridley Scott and John Woo, pivotal in creating the grammar of action and genre cinema in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Whilst Scott favoured worlds that were both functional and richly detailed and Woo became …