What A Difference An Age Makes: Rewatching Muriel’s Wedding
This weekend I rewatched, for the first time in a decade, two films from my early adolescence. The first was Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), a mockumentary black comedy focused on the world of American teen pageants and starring Kirsten Dunst,…
Father Ted, Son and the Holy Ghost: Comedy with a Surrealist Twist
“Won’t you have some cake, Father?” Mrs Doyle asks. It’s the mid-1990s and Father Ted is being shown on Channel 4. ”It’s got cocaine in it.” A pause. Father Ted looks alarmed. “Oh no, hang on,” she says, ”it’s not cocaine, is it. What do I mean…
Camelot? No thanks.
Camelot. I am allowed to say that it was a disappointment? It seems fate that it would be, of course. There’s not much in the way of Arthurian adaptations that I’ve been impressed with over the last few years (Merlin has…
The King’s Acceptance Speech
So, the Oscars and the BAFTAs of 2011 have been and gone and proved themselves mostly unsurprising. This isn’t a negative. The buzz surrounding The King’s Speech was generated from a combination of script, direction and acting which further proves the credentials…
National Television Awards 2011: Live Blog
I’ll be live blogging ITV’s coverage of the 2011 NTAs throughout the evening. To say I’m excited is an understatement so heinous you would have been executed for it under Henry VIII. COVERAGE STARTS AT 7.30pm. CONCLUSIONS: I think it’s obvious…
Oscars 2011: Nominations
The full list of nominations for this year’s Oscars was announced yesterday and as soon as I read them I could practically hear the entire internet saying the same thing: “sorry, what?” Not about the entire list, of course–there were…
Sherlock + Q&A with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
6th January 2011 Clapham Junction Picturehouse Cinema I am more than a little obsessed with Sherlock. My laptop wallpaper is Sherlock. My phone wallpaper is Sherlock. My ringtone is the Sherlock theme music. By this logic it stands to reason that the screening of Sherlock at the…