July 2009
60 posts
An official report from Somerset House, London
Alien is a bloody good film. Bloody good.
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This film is on: Blade
You may or may not have noticed that I’ve started writing up films that I’ve seen. No doubt I’ll look back on these posts (currently grouped together under the title This Film Is On – you can never steal enough REM lyrics … ) in the future and be appalled at my opinions, but I’m interested to see how my emotional responses to films shift over time. There was a time, for example, when Peter’s...
The Chipmunks of Endor
Interview with photographer, toy-player and rodent-manipulator Chris McVeigh at Gym Class.
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This film is on: Big
A while back, Dr B and I decided to have a day of eighties family movies. This would involve watching Three Men and a Baby, Big and Ghostbusters in one sitting. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to do it, but I bought them all anyway, so the other night we sat down with a box o’ ginger cookies and watched Big. It’s easy to forget how great Big is, because i) it’s fluffy, ii) throughout the...
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This week, I have mostly been:
watching Moon
watching Moon again
talking to anyone who will listen about Moon
reading the Moon press pack
trying to get hold of a Moon poster
having a brief but informative tweet-chat with the director of Moon
thinking about when I can see Moon again.
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This film is on: Moon
At last I have seen Moon. Ever since seeing John Calvert’s excellent poster concept at All City months and months ago, the weight of expectation I’ve put on this film has been immense. It reached a point where I knew it could only disappoint.
Somehow though, it didn’t. In fact, it was so good that as soon as the end credits started rolling, Dr B suggested we dash out and immediately queue...
Various binks
Just a few bits and bobs I’ve written over the last couple of years that are still open to discuson/derision/legal action:
On the racism of my childhood
On 2007
On the Awesome uselessness of Dr Henry Jones Jnr
On the pre-history of the Best Animated Feature Oscar
On rescuing nerfherders and deluded Jedism
On The Face magazine (1980–2004)
On Harrison Ford’s top five hand-acting...
Gym Class Magazine #3
The third issue of Gym Class Magazine is now available for purchase by you, the human race. I’m conpletely biased in my praise for this small but perfectly formed zine (because I’m in it), so I’ll just shut up and throw the blurb at you from the equally brilliant Gym Class blog:
It’s jam packed full of contributor goodness. There’s an article by designer/blogger Daniel...
“I’m not your mother, Bono. Do your own dirty work. Fuck you.”
– Patti Smith. Sleevage look at the classic Mapplethorpe cover for her album Horses.
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This week I have mostly been thinking that my life...
Alec Baldwin
Jeff Goldblum
Brian Blessed
Christopher Walken
Johhny Ball.
“In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography...”
– Amen to that, brother. More wisdom at Web Typography.
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This week, my desk has mostly been cluttered with:
a small plastic cup half-full of hole-punch holes
promotional gift catalogues
coffee stains
an ewok
cables … oh so many cables …
a pad of Batman and Robin Fold and Mail stationery
paper samples (various weights of 9Lives Offset … I still prefer Cyclus Offset though … which reminds me, Dr B actually made a Cyclus Offset joke the other day. I have successfully infilitrated her mind with...
365
Stormtroopers 365.
“There are really only two kinds of science-fiction films: the kind with Wookies,...”
– AV Club’s Nathan Rabin reappraises Soderbergh’s difficult sci-fi gem.
