This is late, sure, but I've finally just caught up with this film on DVD, having missed it but read all the great reviews.  It's terrible. God, is it awful:  flat, schematic and no different than a thousand similarly themed films that have come before, right back to "Boy's Town" with Spencer Tracy.  But worse.  Key…

I don't want to be one of those "You should have seen it back then", but Misfits was excellent for the first season, okay for the second and then jaw-droppingly, hit-me-in-the-face-with-a-brick awful for the third,with it's casual misogyny (Hey, rape's okay when it's non-penetrative! Or when the girl's asleep it can…

I don't want to be one of those "You should have seen it back then", but Misfits was excellent for the first season, okay for the second and then jaw-droppingly, hit-me-in-the-face-with-a-brick awful for the third,with it's casual misogyny (Hey, rape's okay when it's non-penetrative! Or when the girl's asleep it can…

How about the Inferior Five?  I read their comic book when I was a kid and laughed myself silly.    

How about the Inferior Five?  I read their comic book when I was a kid and laughed myself silly.    

If I remember correctly, the finale of The Fugitive was the most-watched programme of its time - one of those "empty streets" moments — and, yes, I think it was hugely influential as a series, as White Suburban Punk points out.

If I remember correctly, the finale of The Fugitive was the most-watched programme of its time - one of those "empty streets" moments — and, yes, I think it was hugely influential as a series, as White Suburban Punk points out.

Yeah, like I said, in an epic of understatement….odd.

Yeah, like I said, in an epic of understatement….odd.

My mother was a Bluebell Girl (a troupe of show dancers) and worked in Paris a lot in the 50s.  she tells us stories of working with the Nicholas Brothers and how, liberated by working in a country that judged them only as artists and not by the colour of their skin, used to dance with glee down the street and along…

My mother was a Bluebell Girl (a troupe of show dancers) and worked in Paris a lot in the 50s.  she tells us stories of working with the Nicholas Brothers and how, liberated by working in a country that judged them only as artists and not by the colour of their skin, used to dance with glee down the street and along…

The Grauniad has a tendency to suck off any PR person with the biggest fruit basket.  You'll get a lot of embarrassingly pandering articles the presage a film/album that actually turns out to be pants, or you get MOR artists like Rumer getting an inordinate amount of press.  Beth Ditto also contributes the occasional…

The Grauniad has a tendency to suck off any PR person with the biggest fruit basket.  You'll get a lot of embarrassingly pandering articles the presage a film/album that actually turns out to be pants, or you get MOR artists like Rumer getting an inordinate amount of press.  Beth Ditto also contributes the occasional…

I'm assuming this is the Brit music press you mean, and I thoroughly agree — it's what I've always said.  The music press here are desperate, picking up and dropping anything shiny and screaming "This is it!  This is THE NEXT BIG THING!  HONEST!" as if they can only justify their paycheques by hyping up a flavour of…

I'm assuming this is the Brit music press you mean, and I thoroughly agree — it's what I've always said.  The music press here are desperate, picking up and dropping anything shiny and screaming "This is it!  This is THE NEXT BIG THING!  HONEST!" as if they can only justify their paycheques by hyping up a flavour of…

I was a huge fan of Allen in the 70s (even had the thrill of seeing him filming a couple of times in NYC, once even in our building, for a deleted scene in "Manhattan") but….well, I've fallen out of love, that's for sure.  He's like one of those old rock bands with a fervent core base who keep releasing albums and…

I was a huge fan of Allen in the 70s (even had the thrill of seeing him filming a couple of times in NYC, once even in our building, for a deleted scene in "Manhattan") but….well, I've fallen out of love, that's for sure.  He's like one of those old rock bands with a fervent core base who keep releasing albums and…

I don't know if anyone's dared mention the totally uncool gateway to Eno (for me) that was….Genesis.  Phil Collins, who'd worked with him, got him into do some "Enossification" on The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.  I was about 16 or 17 and I then found his first two albums in the cut-out bins of my local record store…

I don't know if anyone's dared mention the totally uncool gateway to Eno (for me) that was….Genesis.  Phil Collins, who'd worked with him, got him into do some "Enossification" on The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.  I was about 16 or 17 and I then found his first two albums in the cut-out bins of my local record store…

I've treasured this since I was a teenager, but recently got 801 Live in Manchester, a later gig they did without Eno, and it's pretty feeble, lacking in the spirit and gusto of the original.