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| Be Kind Rewind (2008) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2008-07-17 12:15:00 |
Bit of a weird one, this. It's about an old video rental shop in Passaic, New Jersey, where jazz pianist Fats Waller was born (according to legend). Mike (Mos Def) works in the video shop owned by Elroy Fletcher (Danny Glover). Mike's friend, Jerry (Jack Black), gets himself electrocuted during a sabotage attempt on a power station. This doesn't kill him. He is magnetized. When Jerry returns to the video store, he unwittingly erases all the tapes. To make up for the blunder, Mike and Jerry record their own version of Ghostbusters for Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow), one of Elroy Fletcher's best customers. The DIY remake is a success and starts to generate unprecedented interest in the store in the local community. Soon, customers are queuing around the block to place their own requests for "Swe...
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| BMW TV ad contains grammatical error |
| 2008-05-23 10:50:00 |
As "emissions" is a plural noun, shouldn't it be "Fewer emissions"? How embarrassing for BMW and their advertising agency! See an explanation of the difference between "less" and "fewer" on the AskOxford website. I realize that they're going for the "less is more" connection, but I still don't forgive them....
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| Jesus Camp (2006) - ickleReview (TV) |
| 2008-05-07 17:41:00 |
In America there are 30 million evangelical Christians. As Ted Haggard, pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, says: "If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election."Jesus Camp is a 47-minute* documentary about the indoctrination of children at evangelical conferences and summer camps. Children as young as six are told they are sinners; that warlocks are the enemies of God (ergo Harry Potter is evil); are made to pledge they will fight against abortion; are encouraged to worship a cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush; and are, seemingly minutes after their arrival at camp, scared to tears by the fear-mongering preachers. This is a bizarre film, so absurd it's hilarious.Here's that Harry Potter proclamation i...
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| A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2008-04-13 16:48:00 |
Woody Allen light comedy set in the early twentieth century. Three couples meet at a country house the day before two of them are to get married. Andrew (Woody Allen) and Adrian (Mary Steenburgen) are the hosts. They are having marital problems and haven't slept with each other for six months. Andrew is a crackpot amateur inventor. The bride and groom are Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a pompous but likeable ass of a philosophy professor, and Ariel (Mia Farrow), a younger woman whom Andrew once knew. The third couple are Maxwell (Tony Roberts), a doctor who seduces his patients - a real ladies' man - who believes that "marriage is the end of hope", and Dulcy (Julie Hagerty - Jane, the air hostess from Airplane! (1980)), a nubile nurse whom he has invited along for...
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| The Thin Blue Line (1988) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2008-04-13 16:18:00 |
Erroll Morris documentary about the murder of a policeman in Dallas County, Texas in November 1976. Morris interviews two suspects from the case, Randall Adams and David Harris, a number of policemen, eyewitnesses, the judge, and the defence lawyers. It's a gripping film. The story of what happened that night keeps changing as new people offer their perspective. There are numerous reconstructions of the murder, slightly adapted to fit each person's account.Nugget: a grave indictment of the US justice system and a superb documentary....
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| Shadows and Fog (1992) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2008-04-13 16:10:00 |
Woody Allen film shot atmospherically in black and white and set presumably sometime in the late nineteenth century. A strangler is committing a series of murders. Woody Allen's character, Kleinman, is co-opted into a vigilante gang to catch the killer. Meanwhile, at the local circus, Irmy, the sword-swallower (Mia Farrow) has an fight with her boyfriend, the clown (John Malkovich), when she finds him making love to the acrobat (Madonna). Irmy runs away and is welcomed into the brothel for a meal. When a group of students arrive, one of them, Jack (John Cusack), persuades her to sleep with him for $700. The other prostitutes include Kathy Bates and Jodie Foster. All the while the killer is on the loose. Also includes brief appearances by John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Julie Kavner (the v...
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| The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2008-04-13 16:05:00 |
Woody Allen film starring Mia Farrow as Cecilia, a movie-loving waitress in Depression-era smalltown New Jersey. Her husband (Danny Aiello) is an unemployed layabout who treats her badly and sometimes beats her. She escapes her dreary life by going to the movies, sometimes watching the same picture over and over again. One particular film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, catches her imagination. She is so lost day-dreaming about the movie world that she is sacked from her job. When watching the picture for the fifth time, one of the characters, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), steps out of the movie and into the "real" world, having noticed Cecilia in the audience, and runs away with her. This causes an uproar. The cinema manager (Irving...
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| Charlton Heston's hands are cold and dead (at last) |
| 2008-04-06 15:27:00 |
As is generally the case these days, I learnt of Charlton Heston's death through Facebook a few minutes ago (this also happened with my friends' RIP status updates about Heath Ledger). Wouldn't it have been sweet poetic justice if he had been shot dead by one of those dark-skinned immigrant types? You know, the ones he needed a gun to protect himself against, as he claimed in Bowling for Columbine? "From my cold, dead hands," eh?...
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| Carbon Commentary, issue 9 |
| 2008-04-06 14:43:00 |
Chris Goodall has changed the way he writes Carbon Commentary. Instead of publishing six articles together in a newsletter every fortnight, he writes them as irregular blog posts as and when the need arises. This is because he is busy writing another book: Ten Technologies to Save the Planet. The articles are still being collected and sent as a newsletter, and this week I produced the latest issue. It contains pieces on recent trends in UK domestic electricity consumption; the adverse effect that the government's active support for nuclear power is having on the prospects for offshore wind; BT's inaccurate claims about the power consumption of its home phones; the overblown promises of a company raising money to build ethanol-from-wheat refineries; and a r...
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| Alice (1990) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2008-04-04 05:57:00 |
An on-the-whole serious Woody Allen film starring Mia Farrow as Alice, the wife of a rich New Yorker (William Hurt). Her life is luxurious and comfortable. She has servants, a maid to look after her two young children, never has to worry about money, goes shopping on Madison Avenue whenever she likes, and has a personal trainer to keep her fit. However, one day she meets a striking dark-haired man (Joe Mantegna) when picking the kids up from school and can't stop fantasizing about him. She visits Dr Yang, a China Town acupuncturist, to treat her back pain, but he hypnotizes her and she begins to talk about her feelings for Joe, this strange dark-haired man. Over a number of visits, Dr Yang gives her his infamous herbs, which in turn act as an aphrodisiac, make her invisible, summon ghosts ...
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| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2008-03-30 20:14:00 |
Woody Allen period film set in 1940. Allen plays W. C. Briggs, an insurance investigator who feels threatened in the office by the new efficiency expert Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt) who is having an affair with the boss, Chris Magruder (Dan Aykroyd). On an office night out, W. C. and Fitzgerald are both hypnotized under the Curse of the Jade Scorpion. The trigger words "Constantinople" and "Madagascar" remain effective after the evening's entertainment. The hypnotist later calls W. C. [good initials, by the way] and gives him instructions, under hypnosis, to steal a valuable collection of jewels. The next morning he is on the case, investigating himself, but not knowing that he is the thief.Like Radio Days (1987), another of his 1940s nostalgia flicks,...
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| Zoolander (2001) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2008-03-25 08:02:00 |
Silly film about male models and the fashion industry. Ben Stiller is Derrick Zoolander, three-times winner of Male Model of the Year, who is recruited by evil fashion designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) to assissinate the new Malaysian prime minister, who has promised to stop child labour and hence disrupt Mugatu's supply chain of cheap sweat-shop materials. Zoolander is first humiliated, and then assisted, by Time magazine journalist Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor) and upcoming "he's so hot right now" male model Hansel (Owen Wilson). The film includes lots of celebrity cameos, including Victoria Beckham, Natalie Portman, Lenny Kravitz, Gwen Stefani, Paris Hilton, David Bowie, Winona Ryder, Billy Zane, and many others.Nugget: get your popcorn ready. Occasionally hilarious and eminently quo...
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| Radio Days (1987) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2008-03-23 17:09:00 |
Woody Allen film set in the early 1940s when life revolved around the radio. Allen narrates a string of nostalgic, loosely related stories about a Jewish family from Rockaway, New York, which involve the radio in some way. The jazz soundtrack is pretty much non-stop. The cast includes Julie Kavner (the voice of Marge Simpson), Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, and in smaller roles Larry David (as a Communist neighbour), Jeff Daniels, Diane Keaton, and William H. Macy. The period details are pervasive. As there's no real plot, the last third of the film drags a little, even though the running time is only 88 minutes.Nugget: not one of the best or the funniest in Woody Allen's oeuvre, but still good stuff, especially for the soundtrack....
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| Overlord (1975) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2008-03-10 12:12:00 |
An exceptional war film, part documentary, part fiction narrative, about the Allied invasion of France on D-Day, 6 June 1944, which was codenamed "Overlord". The film is directed by Stuart Cooper and photographed by John Alcott, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), the Oscar-winning Barry Lyndon (1975), and The Shining (1980). 30% of the film is archive footage from the extensive Imperial War Museum collection and required 3,000 hours of research to find and select. Overlord won the Silver Bear for Direction at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival.Nugget: one of the best and most original war films I've ever seen.The full DVD review will be published shortly on FilmExposed....
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| How to install an HP ScanJet 2200c scanner on Windows Vista |
| 2008-02-01 19:41:00 |
In its questionable wisdom, HP has decided not to support some of its older scanning hardware for Windows Vista. Here's what is says on its website:"We are sorry to inform you that there will be no Windows Vista support available for your HP product. Therefore your product will not work with Windows Vista. If you are using the Windows Vista operating system on your computer, please consider upgrading to a newer HP product that is supported on Windows Vista. HP has numerous products on the market that support Windows Vista."It's clearly a commercial - rather than an environmental or customer service- decision. I bought my scanne...
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| Carbon Commentary, issue 8 |
| 2008-01-15 17:28:00 |
This week's Carbon Commentary has articles about zero-carbon homes, the new generation of nuclear power stations, cellulosic biofuels, seasonal variations in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, carbon capture at E.ON's Kingsnorth coal-fired power station, and the painful truth-telling of ethical outdoor clothing brand Patagonia.As usual, you can read the excerpted version of the newsletter here; or download the whole thing in printer-friendly PDF....
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| How capitalism works (and sometimes doesn't) |
| 2008-01-14 08:09:00 |
In his recent LRB article, John Lanchester observes that "under Communism children from primary school upwards were taught the principles and practice of the system, and were thoroughly drilled in how it was supposed to work. There is nothing comparable to that in the capitalist world. The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little." What follows is a brilliantly lucid layman's explanation of what banks are doing with other people's money in the capitalist system, which leads up to an account of how Northern Rock is getting what it deserves: a bank run.John Lanchester, "Cityphilia", London Review of Books, 30.1 (3 January 2008), 9-12; http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n01/lanc01_.html [accessed 14 January 2008]....
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| Die Another Day (2002) - ickleReview (TV) |
| 2008-01-05 09:11:00 |
On-the-wane James Bond movie starring Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, and Rosamund Pike. Bond is captured after an assassination attempt in North Korea, then beaten up and tortured for 14 months before he is released. M (Judi Dench) withdraws his 00 status, so he has to continue on an unofficial basis. The plot feels even more cursory than usual. There's a stupid invisible Aston Martin "Vanish" Vanquish, some badly rendered green screen and CGI, and over-used slow-mo/whiplash camera techniques in the vein of The Fast and the Furious and The Matrix. Alongside this attempt to modernize, there are some nostalgic nods to Bond gadgets from earlier movies, and of coursee Halle Berry's Ursula Andress impression coming out of the sea in a bikini.Nugget: it's easy to see why this was Br...
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| The Terminal (2004) - ickleReview (TV) |
| 2007-12-26 18:04:00 |
Tom Hanks plays a citizen from a former Soviet republic which suffers a military coup while he is in the air on his way to New York. The airport immigration authorities do not allow him to leave the terminal building because his country is no longer recognized. He is not allowed to fly home either so he ends up living in the international transit terminal where he finds a way to earn a living and becomes a celebrity amongst the airport staff. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays the air hostess love interest. Steven Spielberg directs.According to IMDb:Inspired by the story of Merhan Nasseri, an Iranian refugee. In 1988, he landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris after being denied entry into England because his passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. French authoritie...
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| Friday Night Lights (2004) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2007-12-25 15:24:00 |
Superlative sports movie about a smalltown high school (American) football team from Odessa, Texas. The Permian Panthers are the focus of the whole town. Alumni and former players follow the team with gurt intensity, expecting them to have a perfect season and win the state championship. 20,000 watch their home games, played on Friday night under the floodlights. The head coach, Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), is paid a $60,000 salary - higher than the school principal. The quarterback Mike Winchell (Lucas Black) is not the star of the team. He learns his playbook with the help of his crazy mother. Football is his best chance of going to college. The team's hopes rest upon running-back Boobie Miles (Derek Luke), destined for greatness, a stellar college ...
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| Carbon Commentary, issue 7 |
| 2007-12-12 14:29:00 |
This week's Carbon Commentary newsletter features articles on obtaining biodiesel from algae, the development of offshore wind farms in the UK, a new type of household battery that can be charged through a USB connection, the Conservative Party's policy local generation of electricity and heat, the report on climate change by the CBI and McKinsey, and smart meters.You can read the newsletter here; or download the full-text, printer-friendly PDF....
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| Sicko (2007) - ickleReview (HD) |
| 2007-12-07 19:07:00 |
Michael Moore documentary about the health care system in the USA. He compares the American system of private health insurance with the socialized health care (free at the point of need) in Canada, the UK, France, and Cuba. He meets a number of US citizens, including 9/11 volunteer rescue workers, who have been denied service by their health insurance companies or cannot afford to pay the hospital and doctors' bills. In the US, health care is not universal and is not free. The health insurance companies want to make profits, even if that means denying their clients access to treatments that could save their lives. It's no wonder such a system lets people down. This system was introduced by the Nixon administration in 1971 and Hillary Clinton failed to deliver the reforms that she promised ...
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| Carbon Commentary, issue 6 |
| 2007-11-27 10:24:00 |
This fortnight's Carbon Commentary has articles on the surprising changes in the IPCC's views since the last synthesis report in 2001, the content of Gordon Brown's first speech on climate change, community-owned wind farms, the new Amazon e-reader, Heathrow expansion plans, and the financial impact of higher standards for the construction of new homes.Read the newsletter here; or download the full-text PDF....
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| The King of Comedy (1983) - ickleReview (TV) |
| 2007-11-26 17:45:00 |
Martin Scorsese film about a delusional and talentless stand-up comedian, Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), who pesters talk-show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) into giving him a spot on his show. Pupkin's obsessive behaviour is unrewarded until he and fellow celebrity-nut, Masha (the hilarious Sandra Bernhard), kidnap Langford.Scorsese takes advantage of the viewer's willingness to believe in the reality of the film to portrayPupkin's delusional fantasies, but it is not always immediately obvious what is imagined and what "really" happened.Nugget: an intriguing study of obsessive behaviour, which is both darkly comic and disturbingly close to the bone. I suspect most of us have the potential for such obsessive behaviour, but not all of us act upon it so readily....
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| Remember the Titans (2000) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2007-11-25 18:24:00 |
Jerry Bruckheimer's take on school desegregation, seen through the helmets of T. C. Williams High School American football team, the Titans, during the 1971 season. Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) is installed as the new (black) head coach, which angers the incumbent (white) Coach Yoast (Will Patton) and some of the white players and parents. The team bonds at their Gettysburg training camp and goes on to complete a perfect season, despite all the controversy and protest about black players and white players playing on the same team and attending the same school. Of course, there is some unexpected capital-A Adversity to deal with along the way.Nugget: a jolly good rallying sports movie, ideal for bus journeys prior to Varsity rugby matches. (My Oxford University Colleges XV went on to bea...
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| England 2 - 3 Croatia |
| 2007-11-21 16:51:00 |
Q: What's the difference between Lewis Hamilton and the England football team?A: Lewis Hamilton will still have a McLaren in the morning.(Source: BBC Radio Five Live)...
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| Carbon Commentary, issue 5 |
| 2007-11-12 15:07:00 |
The fifth Carbon Commentary newsletter has hit the streets of the Information Superhighway. This week features articles on battery-powered cars, Hillary Clinton, public opinion surveys on climate change, the rebound effect, biochar, and the suspicion that Mexico's floods and California's forest fires can't be blamed entirely on global warming. Read the newsletter online here; or download the whole thing as a big, fat PDF....
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| Boston Red Sox win the World Series (and muggins here finally gets some sleep) |
| 2007-10-30 18:28:00 |
On Sunday night, the Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies to win the World Series for the second time in four seasons. I had a bit of an Eastern Standard Time week, staying up to watch five consecutive Bo' Sox victories on Sunday in Game 7 of the ALCS against the Cleveland Indians, on Wednesday and Thursday for Games 1 and 2 of the World Series at Fenway, and on Saturday and Sunday, for Games 3 and 4 in Denver. Highlights included Dice-K's wind-up wiggle on the mound, Pedroia's lead-off homer in Game 1 of the World Series, Papelbon throwing out Holliday at first, Dice-K's two-run single in Game 3 (not bad for an American League pitcher), Jacoby Ellsbury's consistent on-base per...
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| Carbon Commentary, issue 4 |
| 2007-10-29 16:31:00 |
I've finished preparing the new issue of Chris Goodall's Carbon Commentary Newsletter. Articles this week include some surprising news about the impact of food packaging on climate change, and the not-so-innocent plastic drinks bottles used by Innocent.You can read the full newsletter here; or download the full-text PDF version here....
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| What's the best way to react when a camera is pointing at you so that you look real/not like an idiot in the photograph? |
| 2007-10-24 17:13:00 |
To find some answers, go here. Good suggestions include:Clench your butt cheeks.Try not to look at the camera lens, but the eyes of the person behind the camera.Hold your shoulders back, stick your chin out as far as you can, turn your face so it's at a 3/4 angle, tilt your chin down a little - hence, the "MySpace pose" or taking photos from above.In a group portrait (especially an informal one) people have a tendency to lean in toward the person in the center. Don't do that.Think of the most hilarious and/or satisfying thing you can imagine while the picture is being taken.Imagine that the camera is a child you love and smile warmly and sharingly at that child, like you're whispering "You're so cute!"Try looking away from the camera at something else, the...
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| Losing is for wankers |
| 2007-10-24 14:02:00 |
Subscribers of the LRB can enjoy this myth-mulching article about the origins of rugby union. It was not a soccer match that William Web Ellis disrupted at Rugby School in 1823 when he caught a football and ran with it (the Football Association and its rules weren't formed until 1863); as Jeremy Harding reveals:"the 'dribbling game', as football was known in the old days, was not played at Rugby. Webb Ellis should be remembered not for catching a ball - this was standard practice at the school - but for running with it when he ought to have retreated. Had he done so, the opposition would then have advanced to the point at which he'd made the catch and he'd have gone on to take a punt or offer the ball to a teammate for a place kick."The article begins with an account of the pre-match prepa...
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| Inalienable truths, no. 1 |
| 2007-10-16 16:19:00 |
Every photograph of me is a picture of me when I was younger.(Source: adapted from an overheard conversation at dinner in Hertford College this evening.)...
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| Carbon Commentary, issues 2 and 3 |
| 2007-10-15 17:41:00 |
The third edition of the Carbon Commentary Newsletter, which I proof-read, typeset, and upload for Chris Goodall, was published today. You can read it here:"This fortnight's edition covers topics as diverse as Bjørn Lomborg's new book, BT's energy efficient data centres, and the fiercely argued issues of the Severn barrage and biofuels. I look at the government's main environmental proposals in the Pre-Budget review, saying that Air Passenger Duty will probably remain in its current form. In an article on the problems that the Advertising Standards Authority faces in holding back the tide of half-true green advertising, I confess to complaining about Ford advertising of its Flexi-Fuel cars, only to get hopelessly bogged down in science I barely understand...
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| Jeremiah was a bullfrog |
| 2007-10-10 18:28:00 |
Another YouTube gem. This Sky TV advert featuring a cool cartoon cat, along with the Phil Collins Dairy Milk gorilla, is my favourite advert on TV at the moment. (I'm sick of seeing the same old ads repeated during the Rugby World Cup on ITV.) The track is called "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night.While I was scouting around, I found TV Ad Music.co.uk, which is a nifty way to name that choon.Oh, go on then! Here's another. The track from the Saab 9-3 ad is "Through Your Eyes" by Nina Kinert:...
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| Candy Mountain Charlie |
| 2007-10-10 18:23:00 |
This is a slow-burner, but if you watch it a few times, you will find it works its magic on you. It reminds me of those crappy cartoons and voices the makers of South Park produce. "We're on a bridge, Charlie!"...
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| Time and the Art of Living |
| 2007-10-10 17:57:00 |
I read a joyfully thought-provoking and optimistic essay by Roman Krznaric today on "Time and the Art of Living". I posted my comments about it here on Roman's blog, Outrospection. I hope it will change my attitude and behaviour towards time; I am already thinking differently about it. The essay mentions the Long Now Foundation, which I mentioned in my post on "Event Horizon" by Antony Gormley. It was a privilege to be able to speak to the author shortly after I'd read the essay. I have the urge to recommend it to lots of people, but I know we sometimes resent when other people tell us what we should be doing with our time and what we could be reading. So I'll just leave it here, slid slightly towards you, on a table in the middle of the Information Superhighway....
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| Death Proof (2007) - ickleReview (DVD) |
| 2007-10-07 18:10:00 |
Quentin Tarantino film made in the style of 1970s "grindhouse" B-movies. In Austin, Texas a gang of girls drive to a bar, talking. At the bar, they talk some more. A tee-total stranger, Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), appears to be following them. He drives a black stuntman's car that is supposedly death proof. He tests this out on the gang of girls. An insane stunt crash follows, complete with instant replays from multiple camera angles.Fourteen months later, Stuntman Mike tracks another gang of girls in Lebanon, Tennessee. They talk and drive. One of them, Zoe Bell, playing herself (Uma Thurman's stunt double from Kill Bill), wants to test-drive a car. Stuntman Mike chases them. A crazy car chase sequence ensues.Although the dialogue doesn't really go anywh...
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| RFU agree new shirt sponsorship |
| 2007-09-19 16:45:00 |
The England team will be wearing these new shirts when they run out against Samoa on Saturday in the Rugby World Cup. "Not without a fight," eh?Need an explanation? This might help....
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| Carbon Commentary: A critical appraisal of issues in the move to a low-carbon economy |
| 2007-09-17 19:50:00 |
The website I have been setting up, designing, tweaking, proof-reading, and customizing on behalf of Chris Goodall, the Green Party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon (and husband of my Hertford College tutor and current OED research project leader, Dr Charlotte Brewer), officially went live today. It's called Carbon Commentary.Here is how Chris Goodall introduces the first email newsletter (for which the site is built):"[Carbon Commentary] aims to provide an opinionated appraisal of the main themes in the halting moves towards a low-carbon world. It will analyse the main stories from the world of climate change during the previous fortnight, focusing on the implications for the UK. It is written to be read, and enjoyed, by ...
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