Looper: Stop Hitting Yourself 9 Oct 2012 | 07:36 pm

"Looper" is Rian Johnson's long-awaited (by me) leap into mainstream cinema. After the intricate, gritty high-school noir-fantasy of "Brick" and the intricate, kooky, slightly disappointing con-artist...

Dredd: Now with 100% Less Rob Schneider 13 Sep 2012 | 02:25 am

Of all the remakes, reboots, reimaginings, reworkings, refits and refurbishings of old films which hollywood is puking at us, here's one I don't begrudge them. For fans of Judge Dredd to only have th...

In Praise of The Black Widow 28 Aug 2012 | 04:00 pm

So, "The Avengers" came out earlier this year, and everyone pretty much agrees it was infinitely better than it had any right to be. It should've been a massive train-wreck of egos and screentime squa...

Ted: Bear With Me 27 Aug 2012 | 04:00 pm

Seth MacFarlane is a dick. A rich, smug dick. "Family Guy" used to be funny before he got complacent and started churning out half-arsed re-hashes of jokes and even entire shows. I saw the trailer for...

The Imposter: The Truth is Pretty Out There 26 Aug 2012 | 05:35 pm

So there's this kid, right? And he goes missing, right? And then a few years later he shows up in another country, yeah? And then he goes back to his family, okay? Only summat's not right... Sounds l...

Brave: Queen of Scots 26 Aug 2012 | 06:31 am

Pixar's latest tells the tale of a fiery Scots Princess attempting to escape the oppression of her royal duties and strike a blow for feminism and free will in the ancient highlands. A cadre of Scots ...

Defection 26 Oct 2011 | 04:49 am

I have decided to defect to tumblr. If you have the means, why not come along and follow me there? It just seems a bit more suited to a less focused form of blogging. I'll be posting lyrics and short ...

Goodbye to a Dying Art 16 Jun 2011 | 04:26 am

Signing off 10 Jun 2011 | 09:37 am

Tomorrow is my last day as a projectionist. If there's anyone still out there, you may have noticed a dearth of updates in the past month or two. I think I've told my projection story to the best of ...

BlogalongaBond #5: You Only Live Twice 2 Jun 2011 | 10:30 am

Apologies for the lack of prose lately. Here's another musical effort in association with The Incredible Suit's BlogalongaBond excercise: If you like it, why not subscribe to my youtube channel here?