Yes, looking at that now.

Goblin were supposed to play a live performance of the score to Suspiria last month in Belfast but a week or two before the gig ticket holders were informed that we'd instead be getting Goblin member Claudio Simonetti with his own band. I didn't ask but just assumed that Goblin had broken up again. I seem to recall…

The word you're looking for is stealing. Nolan's situation is eerily similar to Max's at that point - both have had their respective vehicles and worldy goods stolen and are facing expulsion from post-apocalyptic cities.  Of course when Thunderdome's Frank Thring delivers the line "the brothel's full!" the writing is…

It's not heather. They're saying "Haver" - it's a Scots term which means just to ramble on saying meaningless nonsense.

Pillars was adapted by the UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 and not the BBC.   I'm assuming you're one of those Americans who believes that all British telly is made by the Beeb.    Imagine being stuck in a conversation with a Briton who keeps talking about NBC's The Simpsons and you'll get some idea idea of how…

Pillars was adapted by the UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 and not the BBC.   I'm assuming you're one of those Americans who believes that all British telly is made by the Beeb.    Imagine being stuck in a conversation with a Briton who keeps talking about NBC's The Simpsons and you'll get some idea idea of how…

I think Rabin's being more than a little harsh here.   I saw this when it opened in the UK a few years ago and I found it a really moody and effective horror film.   I can understand that Rabin wishes it had the meta references and sly wit of Dante's other films but this one is darker by design and any winking at the…

I think Rabin's being more than a little harsh here.   I saw this when it opened in the UK a few years ago and I found it a really moody and effective horror film.   I can understand that Rabin wishes it had the meta references and sly wit of Dante's other films but this one is darker by design and any winking at the…

Garland's Script
Alex Garland's screenplay for this has been kicking around the Net for months now. It's dreary in the extreme, marooning Dredd inside a single Mega City Housing Block for most of the action. Effectively it's Die Hard with Sci-Fi trimmings and a side order Eastwood's The Gauntlet. It also…

Er Lux, there's an Avis Car rental outlet in Belfast. They rent cars to tourists all the time. Said tourists drive around Belfast in them.

Mollymauk, the industry term for that technique is Speed-ramping, and it certainly pre-dates Channel 4's Green Wing, Avant Garde sorts had been doing similarly trickery since the birth of cinema and it's been more and more common in Hollywood films over the last 20 years. You'll find ramping in things Fearless and…

I actually saw a one-off screening of this last week in a local cinema and it still holds up remarkably well. Aside from the presence of lots of old fashioned 4:3 shaped TV sets and a strange lack of laptops and cellular phones there's very little to date it visually.

Scott, whilst Lussier's commitment to stereoscopic female nudity is commendably gratuitous I think this one is misconceived on technical level and would have been better in two dimensions. The filmic techniques a smarter film-maker might use to liven up a car chase seem to be off the table when dealing with 3D…

TCM:TNG is an odd duck indeed but sorely under-rated. Annoyingly when it finally got released scissor-happy studio editors had lobbed ten minutes off its running time, fucked up the sound mix, and removed a sub-plot without which Renee's character arc doesn't really make any sense. In the original cut a scene at…

Urban does make for a very bad-ass CIA operative in Red. He's physical imposing without being absurdly pumped up and he'[s a gifted actor so yes, I can see him working out okay as the Dark Knight. I'd imagine that's unlikely to happen though as he's already pulling the granite-chinned comic-book ass-kicker thing as…

Dead & Buried
She was also in the fantastic Dan O'Bannon scripted horror oddity Dead & Buried and is almost certainly the only reason I haven't junked my VHS copy of Radioactive Dreams.

Glaring omissions
Sgt Rock by XTC and O, Superman by Laurie Anderson would be front and centre in my theoretical DC comics themed mixtape. And yes, the lack of Puffy AmiYumi's Teen Titan's song is unforgivable.

Harley Cokeliss
Prior to this Cokeliss made a very odd British kids movie called Glitterball which plays like ET several years before the fact but with a tiny silver pinball shapped alien, depicted on screen via cunning use of pinballs.

Yeah, but fuck it. It's already full of other stuff like commentaries and documentaries. It's already needlessly informative. So I can live without Wright telling me that the shot of the man in a nappy is a reference to Ted Post's The Baby or what not.

Not to be a smug hipster but…
The whole Theatrical cut of Grindhouse along with the standalone versions of the film has been available as a Japanese box-set for quite sometime. I've had it for ages. I've not had a life for a while though.