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I had a cool classics-week in film at the cinema and at home last week. Monday night had Citizen Kane, the first time i'd seen it on big-screen since VIth form college (Varndean) media studies teacher hired a bus and drove us to Hastings for a special screening in about 1991. Most enjoyable...

Just come back from a viewing of the Eurostar advert Somers Town. Not entirely unpleasant to watch, but the funding was clear and the ill-written script, much emptier than the arty mumblecore emitted by Canadian film-college students on screen, left it typically uni-layered for a Meadows piece...

I keep going each Sunday to my local cinema's doublebill for £8. Last week it was Son Of Rambow, which i found a little annoying as the characters were less than fully likeable and neither given a more than flippant background to their mental state, and In Bruges, which i quite enjoyed. Nice to...

I saw Lonesome Jim the other night. Directed by Steve Buscemi. So deliberately "alternative" in its mildly comedic view of dreariness in mid-America that it failed its intention. Over-unprepared camerawork jostling into the space of under-written characters left an audience-member, me...

Not sure if i mentioned it, but i sat through Death Proof the other week. What a pile of ill-constructed elephant turd. I am aware it was supposed to be a homage to poorly-made, druggy, sexed-up adventure films of the 70s, but why put your own ludicrous, oft-heard, self-agrandised dialogue in...

Predator was on ITV4 the other night. Arnie looks quite buff in that. No side-parting. The rest of the cast is top drawer too. I like to imagine Jesse Ventura's political career always looked upon in reference to his wrestling and Schwarz partnerships, his brutality unrivalled in council...

Every genres has it's pluses and minuses eh. 12 Angry Men is one of my favourite films easily. Just to have stagework and the incredible acting of 12 unglamourous men unfurl on screen was amazing. The crime itself is pretty uninteresting. Just Henry Ford engaging us all with his doubt and...

I was offended by the shithouse description you made of Nibble's, Les' and my individual opinion in the first place (even if i agreed with some of it :)). I am not the speaker for Nibble's mind by any means, but it seems a wild retaliation to your commentary and look to undermine our statements...

I went to my new local cinema this afternoon. An artsy one that has doublebills for £8 on a Sunday. I'd seen and walked out from Silent Light already, so just watched El Violin. What a beauty. It won something at Cannes a couple of years ago, and it is quite brilliant. I had utter shivers at the...

I had a toss-up yesterday, and when that was finished i had to decide on which film to watch in the afternoon. The choice was a simple one: go to the cinema for something as plain as Bucket List, or stay in with an enormous cup of tea for The Fall of the Roman Empire. The latter had me, and i...

It is quite brilliant. But check out the mostly voiceless role of Ulrich Muhe, so understated, so eerily honest and humane in it's shadow-cast, dutybound solitude. Quite moving. Then you can fully decide whether it's better or worse. :) or whether the roles are different, but perhaps demand...

You should see something before slating it. :) Downfall is better, i think. But it's a bloody good film nonetheless, The Lives Of Others. A simply moving drama mostly, dizzied by politics and time and humanity and the seeming inability for the three to ever safely match.

I'm going to have to hit 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days tomorrow. I should have seen it already and am tired of my idleness and choosings to go elsewhere to watch such fly-away gash as Cloverfield. I went to the cinema in Tuesday though. I play football at 9.15pm, so have 4 hours to kill between...

I also like Most Valuable Primate and the Police Academy series. It just depends what you want from film doesn't it. If you want to be wowed by battling cars and their exploding, heartless chassiseseses, then go for it. If you want to have yourself questioned or forced to consider why...

Yeah i got an eyeful of There Will Be Blood last night. Good stuff. The performances obscenely grandiose and vastly theatrical, but the story and it's sometimes tender slowness makes it all most watchable. Had a bit of a Heaven's Gate feel to the look, fields of opportunity swaying in the...

The scene where Linney's being worthlessly pumped by her married, balding lover, her genial, heartful expression toward the cheater's eyebrow-raised canine and reaching for the friendliness and loyalty in it's paws will provoke a chilling smile in me for many months.

I saw a double-bill on Saturday at my local Odeon. Cloverfield was the first one, and of course that was a somewhat feeble attempt at terror. The main monster a Godukiless Godzilla, his miniature spawn all scuttling Alien offspring without the wit and will to implant or directly poison, and the...

I saw Before the Devil Knows You're Dead the other evening. Mayb ei am a bit older than i still like to imagine, but the film was dominated by two things: Philip Seymour Hoffman's almost impeccable performance as per usual, and Marisa Tomei's naked self in display. Hummana f***ing hummana. She's...

And Duel is better than Jaws. Although both are very good.

I like Meadows' adoration for film and, as you say Les, the openings of his snappings are generally pleasing, but his Midlandsising reworkings of favourites tends to annoy me a bit, cheapens them, De Palmas them a bit, which is no compliment. Dead Man's Shoes is the cream of his crop. Partly...