Posted in cinema on Mar 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
I didn’t notice this on Slugger O’Toole yesterday but it seems that Ian Paisley has commissioned a biopic of his life.
Writing in Comment is Free, Malachi O’Doherty suggests that
“commissioning a film makes as much sense as Tony Blair digging out his old CND badge. And Tony was at least a leftie once; Paisley has […]
Posted in cinema on Mar 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
I often get uptight about the amount of time my daughter spends in front of the TV. She actually doesn’t watch that much but the anxiety is still there. I must have unconsciously accepted the current myth that if your children watch too much TV they’ll have acute ADHD by the time they’re seven and […]
Posted in cinema, Sci-Fi on Feb 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
We all have in the back of our heads, a nagging list of movies that we really have to see before we can call ourselves cinematically snobbish, albums we must hear before we can call ourselves musically smug, and places we must visit before we can leave our passports lying around for people to see. […]