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I've set to record BBC4's Storyville tonight. The Queen of Versaille. It was only on at the cinema late last year for a week here or there and i missed it. It concerns this lavish and cartoonish former billionaire couple who've had a financial collapse and had to reposition themselves somewhere...

Of my this week tapings i have a toss-up tonight between Ip Man 2, Croupier, The Neon Bible or a rewatch of the very lightly amusing mumblecore detective tale in Cold Weather.

I recorded it from sky arts2 the other evening. Watched it yesterday and the film standard was intensely cheap, but it was a decent enough piece, unsettling and uncomfortably gripping.

Anyone with a tv recorder could i suggest taping Cold Weather on Tuesday night on Filmfour. I watched it a few months ago and rather enjoyed it. Part of the mumblecore sort of scene at first where people rather blankly babble, like a feelingless you or I would day by day, but it develops into a...

If anyone hasn't seen it or has and wants a second or third glance, then Blue Valentine is on Filmfour in about an hour. I've got it set to record. Epicly romantic and heartbreaking in one. Ukulele fans may be pleased too.

I watched a couple of films earlier today (Together, the rather good Swedish 70s commune part-comedy, and Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, a Hark Tsui film with some kung fu and ace detective work), but i have room for another. So, i am just at the start of The Keeper on ITV4...

I have The Man With a Movie Camera planned to be recorded on Sky Arts 1 just gone midnight. 1929. Moscow. Supposed to be a beauty. And i can't bring myself to watch the Iron Lady. T'would be the same as watching a celebration of the later life and politics of Robert Mugabe.

About to watch Evil Dead 2. Following that record is set for Young Frankenstein. I was thinking of taping Catfish too. Thought it was reasonable in the cinema, but i can't be sure i'd sit through it again so soonly with so much else to get through on the bulging TiVo.

I see two classics on tonight. Rosemary's Baby at 1.05 on C4 and, insanely, Bonnie and Clyde at 3am on ITV. I'll tape Bonnie and Clyde for a tomorrow morning crime doublebill after the Big Steal. Ah the joys of being too ill to go to work.

I tend to assess the acting of all involved in relativity to the time it was made. I don't watch a film from the 1940s with the heartfelt belief there'll be any gritty realism to it, as i half-expect even from action films of the very recent past. Cinema hadn't become that yet and was no cheaper...

It's the same as despairing over poor production qualities of music not made last week, isn't it? As in, you recognise the era in which it was made and take into account the likely limitations of the machinery available at the time and the fact that the time itself was politically and socially...

And tomorrow night late on on BBC2 is The Big Steal. Another to record for me and watch soon after. Probably be on iPlayer too. Directed by Dirty Harry legend Don Siegel and starring the ever-smirking Robert Mitchum. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041178/

I watched Chocolate today. Recorded it from last night on filmfour late on. It's by the director of Ong Bak, which i haven't seen, and concerns an autistic girl looking to reclaim the debts owed to her mother in order to fund her medical treatment. She kicks a lot of people in. It were alright...