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…children and animals and…Fuck, did that bit already…too angry to type…keys…cracking…must put on some…aarrgghh!…Bacharach!

I didn't know the man, but punk was a musically irrelevant fashion movement.
No, seriously! I'm not (just) trying to get up the nose of thin-skinned punk rokkas. I'm actually saying this in anticipation of the industrial amounts of total bullshit I'm going to have to endure in the coming weeks about Punk and how it…

So crappy that it reverse-crapolates his previous films, making them, for me, probably unwatchable now. Plus, he's a misogynist.
Sucktasia. This film is truly, deeply, appalling.

I second Washington DC. And don't forget Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits. Sure, it sorta slightly focuses on the sex side of things, maybe a little, but it's unremittingly joyous and celebratory of love. And maybe sex a bit.

Nice work, VA Reader, both on your spot-on assessment of PTA and your response to the poor lad who attempted to rubbish it. Paul Thomas has been giving me the gout since Magnolia, so thank you. As regards young Wes, I think he's maturing. Fabulous Fox Fella was the best thing I've seen in this year, and I really…

I'm with you, paper doll - this was a totally uninvolving film. It was, as Keith says, definitely personal, in that it was about the filmmaking process, but it didn't translate into an interesting story for me. Maybe it's like that thing John Waters says, "never make a film about your mother," ie, you may care deeply…

@Hat Guy, with the snood:

Well done you Yanks, btw. I'm an Irishman living in London and have become very used to the cliche, still occasionally thrown around over here, that the British make the best televised drama. One look at this list and you know that hasn't been true for at least fifteen years. (They're still comedy geniuses though.)…

Pig…in…SPAAAAAACE (Cue music)
Good Christ but that's an unholy mess of a thing. I've never heard any of the maestro's work, bar as much as I could stand of his freako apology, and that cover has not made it any more likely that I will. I think it's actually the space toons' ship, and they haven't noticed there's this…

I'm with you there, mate, but it started going wrong at the start of Season 3 for me. The first two were so great, and then all those completely muddled, arse-backwards Iraq analogies kicked in, and total filler episodes started to appear. I think once that Irish lawyer showed up, we were doomed. The mark of bad…

That's what I was going for.

Plus ca change
Polanski's been wildly overrated for donkey's years, so this review was gratifying for me. Plus, it cheers me to realise how we've moved on over the years - I mean, there's no chance in these enlightened times that critics and movie lovers would fall for an amorphous glob of self-indulgent garbage just…

Short and very sweet
Is how Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry liked them. As well as the Leader of the Pack, she and her husband also wrote Train from Kansas City and Give Us Your Blessings for the Shangs, as well as the mighty Out in the Streets. If I had to pick a favourite, it would be That Boy Is Messin' Up My Mind,…

I only saw half of Futurama the (this is NOT a firstie attempt) first time, because…
I was in a dingy bar next door to the video shop I worked in - aged 29 - in the summer of '99. I was in the bar because the video shop - in which I worked 12 hour shifts - didn't have a toilet, and I only saw the first half of the 1st…