Netflix need to lose the star ratings and embrace the chaos
I’ve just about tuckered myself out going on and on and on in praise of Netflix. Safe to say, I think it’s a brilliant service. Nonetheless, there are a few niggling oddities in the system — mostly...
View ArticleBizarre fact for a Tuesday morning
It’s a little-known fact that Ron Reagan, son of 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan, had a small role in the film Soul Man (in which C. Thomas Howell blacks up in order to qualify for a...
View ArticleHere are this year’s BAFTA nominations, beneath five paragraphs of arbitrary...
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View ArticleThe mysterious case of Blood Glacier, a.k.a. The Station
At the beginning of the year, I took over the Guardian Guide’s home entertainment column. After half a decade of covering only theatrical titles, my letterbox is now laden on the regs with forthcoming...
View ArticleTHERE IS NO GOD
I’m going to Los Angeles next month. I’ll be there for a week. I return home on February 15th. The following announcement was made this morning: “On February 20th, Arclight Hollywood will play host to...
View ArticleRoger Ebert deemed too grumpy for ‘Life Itself’ movie poster
Here’s an archive photograph of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, taken to promote their long-running TV show At The Movies. And here’s the new poster for Life Itself, a documentary about Ebert from Hoop...
View ArticleHas it really been 20 years since the release of Forrest Gump?
In his 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, Albert Einstein posited the theory of special relativity, which sought to explain the relationship between space and time. Three years...
View ArticleHere’s a clip from Charlie the Abusive Teddy Bear, the alleged inspiration...
Can you imagine suing Seth MacFarlane for stealing one of your ideas? That’s like punching someone in the face for copping to your murder charge. Well, that’s exactly what Bengal Mangle Productions...
View ArticleDistributors hate him! Learn these 10 weird tricks to self-releasing a film...
You may have noticed I haven’t been around ‘these parts’ much lately. That’s because for the past few months I’ve been working with a small team to self-distribute Beyond Clueless — an essay film about...
View ArticleSo, what was Ultra Culture?
Hello! My name’s Charlie Lyne and from 2008 to 2014, I was the sole author — despite my use of an affected editorial ‘we’ for much of that time — of Ultra Culture, a moderately popular British film...
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