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The best thing about The Thing's The Thing prequel is the moment during the closing credits when a husky escapes the premises and is chased across the tundra and shot at by the tired and desperate surviving Norwegians. The original's music, a thudding, thumping electronic heartbeat, kicks in...

PS in Dream House, the main potentially murderous character is called Peter Ward. Another blasphemous reason to ignore it.

Why oh why oh why oh why oh why were they marching down Haymarket last evening, these strikers, and stopping me getting into the Cineworld there for Deep Blue Sea? Thanks to their wish for fighting a cut to their pensions and perhaps wanting the city that caused our world dismay to be charged...

It feels an age since i've gone on about cinema and stuck my nose up at the drivel i've sat through, so here i am again. But this time it's to mildly laud a new release. Take Shelter. A small and forgettable town in Ohio with a religious influence to its habits keeps Michael Shannon within it, a...

PS - Miss Bala, which i saw last night, was quality too. A story of a beauty queen contestant unavoidably forced to go into the drugs and corruption of Mexico. There is action in the film, but the camera refuses to dart about and follow it. It just slowly moves in and through it. Bullets fly and...

I saw We Need To Talk About Kevin last week and it was one of the standout features thus far seen at the film festival for me. Anyone who has read the novel will know it's not a happy-go-lucky subject matter, but it entails Tilda Swinton as the mother of Kevin, a horribly psychopathic boy with...

Well it's been a pair of films for the Meade this weekend thus far. Yesterday was Madamoiselle Chambon, a modernise Frech version of Brief Encounter, in many ways. It's a married man starting to have either lustful and then likely loving feelings for a teacher at his son's school. Of course she...

Advice to all: don't to Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy with a sleepiness inside you. I did, and sometimes felt a little lost. I don't blame the film though. I blame my droopy eyes and the fact i ran in the morning before a hardish day of work. Pah to me. The look of it was good and the acting...

OK so Jane Eyre is a plain-faced northerner, as the majority like to tell her, and that doesn't sound like something all that attractive to look at for close to two hours, but it's a story of heart and bravery, as we all know, having been to school at least a few times, and makes for...

I saw Fright Night tonight and reasonably enjoyed it. Yes, the 3D element was pointless, but it had a half-decent cast, which is rare for a cheap-thrill horror, and one of the writers, i believe, was an old writer from Buffy, so had some experience. Farrell was an uncommonly macho charmer and of...

Not long back from Kill List now. I quite enjoyed the deadpan neo-realism of Ben Wheatley's last film, the Brighton-based gangster chronicle Down Terrace, and i'd read this has the same sort of tone to it. And it does. No mafia this time, but the ordinary life of a former soldier struggling to...

heh I won't bother editing. I love Marmite, so i can see the unconscious reasoning for my slip-up. Haneke, then, is more like black pudding. :)

Quite right about the original of Funny Bones. Strange and usually failing when a director decides to remake their own work for an American audience. Haneke is one of the directors who you either admire or love, the Marmite of the filmmaking world. He always wants an uncomfortable audience and...

Cineworld, i read last week, have lowered their profits in the last 6 months. Not by an enormous amount, but down from £14m to £10m, or something. They say much of that was down to the expense of digitalising the majority of their screens. Perhaps to counter this loss, they seem to have opened...

While some of you were probably enjoying us ease to victory in sailortown, i had finished up my Saturday's overtime and headed of to be afraid of an adolescent monkey. No, it's not a Teenwolf follow-up gone mad, but Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Now, partly thanks to technology, it's rather...

yeah yeah it's me again. Had the day off to recover from weekend overtime. Chose today, in fact, to specifically see the film Bal (Honey) on in Mayfair. Typically, they changed the day. Or i misread it. Instead, i went to Cell 211, a Spanish prison-riot drama, a genre i don't remember...

I was in the flicks last night watching The Big Picture. A French film taken from an American novel about a lawyer having to fake his identity after events change his life irreparably. Romain Duris in the lead was excellent. Much of the film is spent watching his face and the fears expressed of...

I had a dream last night in which i wsa being hunted down by Kazenga LuaLua. It as Terminatoresque, he the robotic mercenary determined to have me annihilated. Quite chilling. That is beside the point though. It was Friday evening in slovenly Stepney Green, my first and perhaps last visit, that...

I was at Harry Potter last night all soggily. Not with excitement, but because the skies pissingly opened and slashed all over me as i pedalled to Chelsea. I didn't expect much of the film, but i was surprised by the liveliness of it and me not groaning more than perhaps twice (once because of...

I have my eye on an Incendies and Akira doublebill on Thursday evening in Stratford (London and not upon-Avon) if you're in the vicinity. :)