of the ones i've seen...

'dead man's shoes' - it's okay, but completely let down by a really crap ending that has made me all but discard any affection i had developed for the film. 'this is england' is a better film, but still nowhere near as good as 'a room for romeo brass'. the latter being meadow's finest hour.

'all about lily chou chou' - well, it is one of my all time favourite films, by one of my favourite directors, so i approve.

'audition' - pretty good fun.

'sympathy for mr vengeance' - a fucking cracking film, still my favourite of the three, followed by 'lady'...

'requiem for a piece of shit'

Yay! Some dandan approval. Sort of.

Fair comments all though. I'm not sold on Requiem For A Dream either, but it did put me through the ringer, whether in a good way or bad way. Lily Chou-Chou all the way though. It's probably my favourite out of the ten.

I kind of like The Butterfly Effect even though it is awful. If anything just for CRIPPLE!ASHTON.

Good list, well written... thoughts.



Brilliant, completely not exploitative and with a really important message. I loved it.




Definitely my favourite Meadows film.




Well... it's upsettingly boring.



Upsetting because the father and son are so nice, but still a killer blow for feminist horror.



I liked it, I bought it, I have never and probably will never watch it again. I bought 'Click' this afternoon and watched it immediately. That probably says more about me than the film.



Hilariously bleak - where are my arms?!

I remember very little about that film other than the discussion about the Black Panthers letting white people join and changing their names to The Zebras was one of the funniest moments from any film I saw that year. It really didn't fit with the film at all.

I suddenly imagine a click of a pen, followed by clipboard scribbling.



That is easily the best scene but understandably incongruous. I dunno, I haven't seen it since it's release, but I'm still reminded of it frequently.

Time is money!

The new season of 'The Guild' is on MSN Video from today!

And, two words will describe why it's even more awesome.

Wil

&

Wheaton!

I'm really happy she's a bitch, it makes me want her as an evil best friend all the more...

Everyone hates Megan Fox

"Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch."

Michael Bay is a diplomat



See ya, biatch

mwah!

Mega Squee! Cannot wait to watch it.

Then you'll love THIS.

Seth Rogen should be glad.

She seems like a dumb, classless bitch anyway so it's not that surprising. She is an attractive movie star though so I suppose she doesn't need brains or class.

Check out these photographs.

They're amazing.

Wait, they are paintings, no?

Photo-realistic ones. Like what Alex Ross does.

I thought so, it does say that on there I see now. Just Jimmay said photographs so I got confused.

I am jealous of her talent

Wow. She is seriously good.

Incredible.

They are very good.

I get ImagineFX each month, which is a digital science fiction and fantasy art magazine, and that has photo-realistic pictures on occasion, but these are a cut above those.

Wow, those are amazing!

She is. Especially the portraits behind the wet glass.

Astrid is trained as a photo realist painter too.

"This is the coolest thing I have ever seen." [/Butthead]


I could watch that over and over and not get bored.




Bloody outstanding. Nice find, Jimbob. Keep the good links a-comin', squire!

Awesome paintings. She gets the water beautifully.

A best 100 films of the 00s

Only looked at the top 10 but it seems pretty retarded.

Yeah, they've included Jackass: The Movie and Super Troopers in the Top 100. That's wearing special trousers retarded.

Though it does also include The Devil and Daniel Johnson, which is a fairly interesting choice.

I don't get the point of photo-realistic painting. When it comes to the water, I prefer Hockney.

Personally, I like it because people are able to put realistic looking subjects in surreal or out of the ordinary situations - Alex Ross is a good example of this, because he can make superheroes into 'real' people, and therfore highlight their vulnerablities, if that makes sense.

But I realise that might be just me who thinks this.

SMG & hubby welcome new baby girl
With a nice sensible name, to boot.

A nice change. I was expecting baby to be something like October Gulliver McMauve or something. Which of course is the name I'd pick.

Congrats to Prinze-Gellars.

I went through the whole list and agree with your statement.

There is a school of thought which doesn't class photo-realism as 'proper art', finding it shallow and show-offy. I can see their points in a way but I disagree. When you see some of these kinds of paintings close up they are even more amazing. Their fantastic technical ability and skill is astounding, challenging boundaries of reality and as long as the artist is using their own photographic work and trying to convey something to the viewer, I don't see why it deserves any less praise than other styles.

Happy Birthday, Ceefax!

*plays Shakatak in the background to celebrate*

It's been rubbish for a few years now. It used to be brilliant, with loads of interesting pages of film, music, sport, all with their own letters pages, but the Beeb has been scaling it back . Now it's almost a mercy killing.

I'm gutted about ITV teletext though. I'm at a loss to know what I'll read over breakfast once that goes in January.

Top 50 debut films

A very strong list, as far as these things go.

This is spectacular:

Primary School kids singing Changes by David Bowie

^ Brill.

Awesome school.

They look happy now.

Wait till they find out that 99.9% of the world is shit.

From the people behind Kung-Fu Cult Cinema, comes FILM SMASH

http://www.filmsmash.com/

Asian Cinema and International Film Blog
News, reviews, features, interviews and forum!



woo, hark at my spamming and my use of capital letters... i do hope it's okay to promote the site that i'm now attached to...

The world is turning upon itself like some kind of Ouroboros.

Haiku time:


dandan, caps 'n' spam
rhyme and reason on the lam
green rabbits in jam

*applause*

Why, thank you.



Meet The A-Team

I tentatively approve.

More photos here.

B.A. looks particularly well cast.

Mmmmm. Niiiice.

Apparently, Matt Berry and Peter Serafinowicz are both apprearing live on Absolute Radio tonight from 10pm (GMT), kids! That's less than 30 minutes away!

I assume this link should suffice.