When the whistle blows on this rather unlikely Ken Loach film, they’ll be plenty of cheers at the result – but also a sense that it’s been a bit of an inconsistent game, with play getting distracted at times. Loach - more famous for his gritty social realism – infuses this (not really about soccer) […]
American Vogue Magazine’s September Issue launches the fashion year (“September is January,” says one office minion), and in it, Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour sets trends for the coming season. You don’t need to be a fashionista to adore R J Cutler’s The September Issue. Granted unprecedented access to the editorial staff as they pull together the […]
The latest film offering from Japan’s Studio Ghibli remains true to the ethos of animator Hayao Miyazaki, whose films, including Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle, have fans numbering in their millions. With a screenplay based loosely on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, Ponyo is a simple, beautiful film full of invention and love.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a genre that has met with some success must be in want of parody. However thin or scant the subject of the parody, the conventions of this formula are so well fixed that a filmmaker has to barely try for such a film to find an audience, and […]
One of my favourite Gary Larson Far Side cartoons was entitled ‘Hopeful Parents’ and featured two parents watching their video-game-addicted son, joystick in hand, while thought bubbles overhead showed their daydream, of a newspaper’s Help Wanted section burgeoning with ads like ‘Super Mario Brothers Expert Needed. $95,000 P.A., 4 day week + Ferrari’.
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