Buck Theorem's Hide-out

I went to see The Grunts play at The Good Ship (Kilburn, 3/10/08). A friend of mine said that they sounded too much like their influences. ...

Christopher Nolan, 2008 1: So much has been written about this flick that my words are purely redundant, but here I go anyhow. A note on my...

It occurs to me that all the films I have watched in this period were horror films to some degree or other. “Night of the Sunflowers” isn’t ...

On the story "The Mist" Stephen King adaptations are a sub-genre unto themselves, and contribute some of the very best and the ver...

Coleman Francis, 1961, USA To the "bad film" aficionado, there is nothing quite like the consummate incompetence of an old B-mons...

JAMES BOND... and me. Growing up in the seventies and eighties, it's inevitable that I grew up with Bond in some way. Bond sign-posted s...

CASINO ROYALE Ian Fleming, 1953 ~ What is most alarming about Fleming's novel and Bond, and what causes reservations about the romp, is...

CASINO ROYALE Ian Fleming, 1953 The novel - What is most alarming about Fleming's novel and Bond, and what causes reservations about the...

300 Zack Snyder, 2006, USA Finally, I get to see " 300 ", a film so fuelled by testosterone, it made me want to oil myself...

JAMES MORRIS MUSIC http://www.myspace.com/jamesthemorris More spaced-out than spacey, James Morris is making some great bedroom ambience. Li...

Martin Campbell, 2006 Ah, the new Bond. Some critic said that it has the best opening sequence... since when, compared to what, I don...

END OF YEAR FILM ROUND-UP I was kick-started on my end-of-year retrospecive by seeing that "Sight and Sound" critics voted ...

RICHARD LAYMON: “BITE” When I was about, oh, fourteen, I made a shift from science-fiction to horror literature. I was on holiday somewhere...

Growing up with ... JAMES BOND Growing up in the seventies and eighties, it's inevitable that I grew up with Bond in some way. Bond sign...