This film is about time. Specifically, what if time went backwards, or rather, what if one person got continuously younger while the rest of the world aged? One of the first things I learnt working in the film industry was that it takes a long, long time to make a movie, a fact entirely borne [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Save Zimbabwe from Mugabe: Avaaz.org
Posted in Thinking, tagged avaaz, mugabe, save zimbabwe on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The situation in Zimbabwe is desperate. It’s easy to feel nothing but helplessness. My instinct is to get angry at the slowness of the international community to do anything concrete in support of the Zimbabwean people, but is that justified? Post-Iraq, the thorny issue of intervention – and at what point it becomes acceptable – [...]
Trailer of the Week: The Wackness
Posted in Watching, tagged ben kingsley, josh peck, luke shapiro, the wackness, trailer of the week on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Winner of this year’s Sundance Audience Prize, The Wackness is set in 1994, the year its writer-director Jonathan Levine graduated from high school and the debut albums of Nas, Method Man, Notorious B.I.G. and Outkast got into his head. “1994 found New York at a crossroads,” says Levine in his Director’s Statement. “And it found [...]
Sad but true: Brown’s not up to the job
Posted in Reading, tagged david davis, gordon brown, Jonathan Freedland, labour on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gordon Brown’s a liability. Jonathan Freedland sums up Labour’s malaise all too well in today’s Comment is Free: “I find myself in sympathy with those who admired Brown through his 10 long years as chancellor and who keenly awaited his premiership, and yet now conclude that they got Brown wrong – that, on the current [...]
Viva la Vida
Posted in Listening, tagged coldplay, the dirt is temporary, viva la vida on June 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It’s no false modesty to say I’m not very good at writing about music and therefore usually leave the job to my friend Matt (who, btw, has just been nominated for Press Gazette’s student feature writer of the year, yay!) Anyway I’m not going to try to describe why I love the new Coldplay album, [...]
Sushi wraps on Fleet Street
Posted in Going Out, tagged abokado, fleet street, sushi wrap on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dashing from work to an evening film screening, I knew I had to eat something sustaining to prevent serious tummy rumblings. But I didn’t have time for a sit-down meal. What to do? Another sandwich? The health/taste showdown is now of course far less common than in the glory days of Ronald Macdonald and Greggs [...]
Trailer of the Week: Wall-E
Posted in Watching, tagged disney, pixar, wall-e on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The eponymous star of Pixar’s new film looks like a supercute amalgam of E.T. and R2D2. I’ve got a soft spot for sci-fi and dystopian narratives in particular, plus an enduring fascination with robots (which I blame on Isaac Asimov’s series of amazing short stories, I Robot). Thus the romantic misadventures of a little machine [...]
Re: Gone Baby Gone
Posted in Watching, tagged casey affleck, gone baby gone, trailer of the week on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since I started this whole Trailer-of-the-Week thing, I haven’t actually seen any of the films I’ve touted through their trailers. I know, kind of embarrassing. But, in my defense, it’s because none of them have been released yet! Until now. Tonight I saw Gone Baby Gone and I’m happy to say it lived up to [...]
Little People
Posted in Reading, tagged little people, slinkachu on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just come across a brilliant blog – Little People-A Tiny Street Art Project – and you have to check it out. The artist, Slinkachu, creates Borrower-sized people and puts them in various poses in cities across the world. Supercool.
Trailer of the week – Burn After Reading
Posted in Watching, tagged brad pitt, burn after reading trailer, coen brothers, george clooney, john malkovich, tilda swinton, venice film festival on June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s about time we, the public, got another Coen brothers film. And here it is. Dream line-up: Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Clooney, Pitt, John Malkovich. Burn After Reading is headlining the Venice Film Festival in August and is scheduled to open in the UK on October 17th. The Coens reprise the formula they do so [...]
The Scoop
Posted in Going Out, Watching, tagged hitchcock, laurence olivier, morelondon, rebecca, the scoop on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since Grease I’ve wanted to go to a drive-thru cinema. The next best thing – actually better as it’s zero carbon – is The Scoop‘s outdoor film screenings, held in a mini Roman amphitheatre on the banks of the Thames (just in front of City Hall). “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley [...]
Britain’s Modern History Boy, Andrew Marr
Posted in Watching, tagged andrew marr, andrew marr's history of modern britain, bbc, bbc i-player on June 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just watched another episode of Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain on the BBC i-player. Until now I didn’t know the difference between Harold Wilson and Harold Macmillan, nor what exactly led to the three day week. This is frankly appalling considering the years I have spent 1) in education and 2) living in [...]
Trailer of the Week – Gone Baby Gone
Posted in Watching, tagged amy ryan, ben affleck, casey affleck, gone baby gone, good will hunting on June 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ben Affleck’s directorial debut – starring his younger brother Casey – was set for UK release in December 07. Then Madeleine McCann went missing, and suddenly Gone Baby Gone, a story that begins with a blonde-haired tot being stolen from her bedroom, seemed to play too close to the bone. The release was pushed back [...]
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