Shawshank redemption. It's an OK sort of fillum but I can't believe anyone would or could crawl through 500 yards of shit? And how come when he cracked the shit pipe a bit of it spurted upwards but when he climbed in it was only half full?

Poor research in my opinion..

How did he get the poster back on the wall after crawling through the hole behind it

Great fillum though. I saw it a few years ago and forgot just how good it is. And of course with the extras attached to the digitally versatile disc you can watch the making of, the interviews, the research (or lack of it regarding shit pipes), and much, much, much more..

Morgan freeman is my face actor...watch Lucky Number Slevin

I'm a big fan of Freedman. Apart from those daft fillums where he plays God of course. He was also very good alongside Brad Pitt in Seven which sounds like slevin but isn't lucky..

It's from a Stephen King short story. One of Mrs DB's favourite films. She likes prison films so is also keen on The Green Mile. Which is also from the pen of Mr King.

That's right Devs. The short story was called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption. I googled that..

I used to devour everything that came from the SK word processor. Up until Misery when he went a bit shit, that is..

I still read them all (the only one I couldn't finish was Gerald's Game) but most are not as vital as his earlier works. His scifi western Dark Tower series is excellent apart from the end which is the biggest cop out ever.

I'm still really enjoying his son's book.

If you like Stephen King and his horror writing peers, may I recommend the TV Series 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace', which rips the piss royally out of those authors (along with shite 80s TV series like Twin Peaks)

That programme is quality

I skyplussed the whole series and burnt into on DVD. Had a lovely little ebay racket going until the swines officially released it on dual layered.

I've just (well, it was last night, actually) watched another absolute nugget from the Coen brother's repertoire, Raising Arizona. Surely Nicholas Cage's finest moment? I wonder why he never appeared in another of Joel or Ethan's fillums because they like to use the same actors usually. Great fillum though, Holly Hunter is exceptional as the 'barren' cop ("H.I.'s seed could find no purchase on the rocky shores of Ed's insides", How great is that line?) She convinces Cage, a seasonal crook and new husband to Hunter, to kidnap a baby from a couple who have just had quintuplets. Surely they wouldn't miss one having being blessed with so many?

If you haven't already seen it, watch it. It's a suitor..

Didn't know whether to post this in the foreign fillums section but decided not to as I couldn't be arsed to find but I've just watched the brilliantly, critically, and italically acclaimed All about my Mother by the genius that is Pedro Almodovar.


It's not action packed and it's not a thriller but the fillum is dedicated to all female actresses of the world and the actresses chosen for it do the world's finest justice. I have four more of Pedro's (we're on first name terms) fillums in a box. I would recommend highly that you go to your nearest interwebbery purchasery store and buy said box, making sure of course that there are discs in it..

Went to the pictures tonight with my lad (15 years old, difficult to please, daren't pick a fillum myself, left it to him) and he decided that tonight's entertainment was to be 'Hancock'. I was overjoyed for the first ten minutes because I thought we were watching a trailer for the latest Will Smith movie in which he plays a drunken reluctant superhero, and I was just wondering to myself how proud I was that a son of mine would be thoughtful enough to sit through a fillum about the life of the late, great comedian, Tony Hancock. But no, apparently Hancock is not about Tony and his sad, depressing but brilliant life but about a drunken yet reluctant superhero played by Will Smith! What the feck?

It wasn't the most pleasurable of experiences. In fact giving blood was easier. Not a pint though mind you, just an armful..

Last night I watched the last and final (the one after the penultimate) epiode of Blackpool, the BBC series starring David Morrissey (no relation) and the fella out of Dr Who. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this series. A comedic murder mystery with singing sounds so wrong but it worked a treat here. Kudos must go to the afore never heard of writer Peter Bowker, and the whole of the cast which for me was superb.
Did anyone else manage to catch any of this while it was on terrestrial? I strongly recommend the versatile discage if you can get it for under a tenner. Six episodes of quality for me..

Well, I haven't just watched it, it was last night actually, but I watched the 'Sally returns' episode. I nearly spat my Beef stir fry with oyster sauce medium to hot with boiled rice out whn Bret and Jemaine started singing When I'm wearing my socks it's business time.

DK, I now get your sig. Brilliant..

are you michael bentine in disguise...panja you are truely potty!

Sorry, Mikey, I should have explained better, was watching an episode of Flight of the Conchords. Tis very funny indeed..

It get's better with repeat views as well, it's ruddy marvellous.

I love the character who plays the manager, Murray. I've watched an episode a week rather than cram them in to savour the comedy which has been very good so, thus, ergo far, and the songs are excellent, generally..

Murray steals every scene he's in.

There's a second season in the offing now.

© Scooby

I also enjoy Murray the most, he is blummin marvellous.

I'm about to watch it again, will be my third viewing of the series which is quite odd for me, i never normally watch stuff more than once.

Murray. Before he was famous. Or funny.

The very last joke is worthy of 3 minutes of your time. Possibly.

I say no to this stuff of him doing mediocre stand up comedy.---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112a_Xh0fTo Don't watch it Panjy it may ruin magical moments.

I didn't like this song that much at first, i think it's one of the best ones now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8jaGs7xJ0...feature=related

Did anyone catch Uma Thurman and Jonathan Pryce last night in David Hare's drama My zinc bed? Only the three actors in it with Paddy Considine joining the aforementioned other two. Twas gripping stuff acted beautifully, especially by Thurman and Considine who portrayed two alcoholics struggling with their addictions in differing ways. Considine being a poet with writer's block as he can only be creative with a drink or eight in his hand, Thurman being encouraged by her husband Pryce to confront her demons by having a drink.

Sounds simplistic but with the hypnotic Thurman acting and Considine improvising it made for bloody good TV.

Did anybody see Pierpoint the other night ?,recorded it and watched it last night quite thought provoking it didn't drag its feet and it was well constructed as it showed the changing attitude to capital punishment,Timothy Spall was solid in the lead role with able support from Juliet Stephenson who played his wife.
K.R.O.

Saw and enjoyed both the above - Zinc Bed was a bit frustrating, because of the ease with which the addicts got bent by Pryce (but that's their addiction problem, like) plus,depsite my lurve of Ms Thurman, I felt she was acting the role rather than her usual becoming the character covincingly - but twas worthy all the same.

Pierrepoint I wasn't expecting to think much of at all, but it was gripping stuff.

Shakespeare in love.

"The Rose, smell thusly rank by any name"..

"Too flattering, too sweet, to be substantial"..

Brilliant screenplay by Stoppard and the other bloke..

Its funny you should mention that Panj as myself and Philip have discussed it only this week, I cant think why now but he said we had seen it and I said I hadnt, he said we watched it with you at Miss Dubonnets house in Jersey [you know the one] now I remember the evening quite well, The wine, the food etc but not the fillum, he says I thought it was miles better than I thought it would be? with me not likeing anything before 1960 as a rule. Can you clear it up for me

I just mentioned it to him again, and he just looked at me, you know that knowing look..

Burn after reading. What a welcome return to form from the Coen brothers with quite possibly their funniest script since Fargo. Regular stars to the Coen bros cast list George Clooney and Frances McDormand, who are both again outstanding, are joined by ineptly brilliant John Malkovic and Brad Pitt in a movie about extortion, blackmail, CIA agents who aren’t very good, and grounds for divorce. If you’re looking for a roll in the aisles funny movie then don’t bother going to see BAR. The clever inconsequential dialogue is what holds your attention here, not one-liners. I went to see it on Saturday with five others and we’re all still raving about it now.

I vent to see Ghost Town t'other night. Was quite amusing, worth watching, if you like Ricky Gervais.

Me and the crusty one had a meander down to the arty-farty little cinema at the Gala Theatre in Durham to watch this last night. Absolutely brilliant, Coen brothers back to their very best, we loved it. Highly recommended it you can still catch it on somewhere.

I'm giving No country for old men another going through this weekend as a friend of mine has been to the deeveedee purchasery store and bought said fillum. I've since watched Javier bardem in a couple of Almodovar Spanish-speaking fillums and I'd watch it again just for his performance, which was as polished as a thing that's been polished a lot..

That wasn't too bad...couple of flaws in the plot but it moves along at a fair pace and I've seen worse..
K.R.O.

Sid, it's a shame you've waited so long before you offered such glittering praise, I'm sure the film distributors would've liked to have put that line on the front cover of the DVD loike?

Burn After Reading is absolutely superb, just as the rainy blue one said it would be? John Malkovic stole the show for me, he was hilarious as a sort of cool, expletive-ridden Victor Meldrew? And Clooneys paranoic sex-addicted character is highly amusing. I reckon that when the two CIA bosses are meeting and discussing the turn of events, it is actually meant to be the Coen brothers discussing how the fillum is progressing and how it ends? I dunno, perhaps I'm being too analytical?

The dialogue at the end between the two agents is the kind of thing that ensures the patron walks out of the cinema with a grin as wide as the mouth allows. Joel and Ethan at their very best.

Last night I watched what was probably the worst fillum I've seen in a while, in fact i can't recall ever seeing a worse fillum than this since back in the days when the Beafort and the Capital used to show b-movies before the main event, and they were pretty rank I can tell thee.

The offending piece of celluloid was a fillum called Mongol, the apparent life story of ruthless ealry-form-of-hyphenated-Dictator type bloke Ghengis Khan. Only he's not a ruthless dictator in the fillum, he's a nice father of two married type who keeps having injustices piled on top of him as he makes his way through life. Fillumed on location in inner Mongolia (I think the No.8 goes round it) the Russian director who's name now escapes me chose to do the movie in the original Mongolian dialect with subtitles, which doesn't help the cause none but it does give the viewer something to read during the slow bits, of which there's about two hours worth.

I only watched it because a mate of mine recommended it. I'm now racking my brains to see if it was the first of April when he did so.

I'll get him back, mind. That Jaws 4 was a bloody good watch, apparently..

Oof That's a punch in my salty old face is that Panj? I was only saying to Rainy yesterday that we should purchase said fillum as I recall seeing the trailer at the flicks one day and liked what I saw?

There is a fillum out called Warlords starring Jet-Li which those wonderful flickies over at Empire magazine gave a whopping 4 stars to.

I was amazed, nay shocked to the very core, to see that someone without an apparent drink problem or drug habit had given the fillum an amazonian five star rating, which is the WDA equivalent of a nine dart finish I should think. I thought it was pish, I really did..

Sure I gave a more comprehensive appraisal of the film when I first watched it a few months back..
K.R.O.

I watched a couple of episodes of Extras last night by the genius that is Ricky Gervais. The ones with Kate Winslett and Les Dennis in are top class comedy at it's very best. Kate's admission that she was only doing a fillum about the holocaust because fillums like that are guaranteed Oscars was brilliant. "Schindler's list;Oscars, The bloody Pianist; Oscars. I've had four nominations and won nothing, this should do it."

Notebook. A present from my daughter to her step-mama and last night's viewage after Taylor had dispensed with the Dutch courage. It's a weepy that's for sure and the storyline doesn't have the viewer on the edge of his or her seat but it's a well put together piece of cellutoid all the same. I thought the ending was a little too perfect to be quite frank and ernest but that's just because I'm old and cynical and turning more and more into Victor Meldrew on a daily basis

Series one of Life on Mars, the boxed set of which was one of my Yuletide gifts and the discs contained therein were consumed over the past four nights. I didn't see the program when it first came out and as I haven't got a DVD recording device i was going to wait until it launched itself upon one of BBC's outer circle channels, but that never happened and so the deeveedee was requested via email to Santa.

What a delight this series has been. Tyler and Hunt at times were as entertaining as Morecambe and Wise, as enthralling as Bodie and Doyle, and as scary as something scary.

I've got series two in my possession too, the viewage of which starts tonight.

Brilliant! hurrah?

Wow!

Finally finished series two of the brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, brilliantly directed Life on Mars. Why wasn't I made aware of this program when it was first out I ask myself and several other people within earshot who'll bother to listen?

I'm now back to my staple diet of The Wire, series three commences this evening after the Blues' result..

Think the third series is due out in a couple of months,I enjoyed the first two ..roll on the third..
K.R.O.

The third series was the much-maligned and not as good 'Ashes to ashes' wasn't it? i diddlee watch that either first time round but Bobby said it wasn't as good as Life on Mars so I took his word for what it's worth - which is Gospel in Chez Panja - and diddley bother..

Ah..!..my mistake its the fourth series due out later this year not the third,there was two on Life on Mars and one on Ashes to Ashes,Bobby was probably right the 'Ashes to Ashes' lacked a bit of the sharpness of the first two but apart from a couple of pretty corny episodes it was watchable, and it was allocated another series though this one might be the end of the line,but we will see..?
K.R.O.