This week – A swashbuckling adventure sequel (Pirates of the Caribbean 2 : Dead Man’s Chest), a futuristic crime movie featuring ‘le parkour’ (District 13) and a Beastie Boys concert film with a hilarious title (Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!) First up, Pirates of the …
“BAC seeks out the future with artists who dance around the edge of sound, theatre and music.” From today until 20th May, the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is hosting Burst – an apt title for a short season of performances that is so packed in …
Re-reading this before putting it live, we’re struck by how many very fine gigs and events there are on this week (as well as how bad our spelling is) and that’s just the ones we know about. Promise us you’ll go to at least one …
Just a quick, special edition of the FFN this week as there’s no real cinema releases, so Instead we’re going to take a look at the films we’re really looking forward to in 2006. These aren’t necessarily the ones that we ‘guarantee’ will be great, …
It’s amazing what you can say in just five seconds: “He was a sk8er boi she said see ya later boi.” “Alex is a hairy crotch monster”. “The Evening Standard is a scaremongering piece of crap”. Try it and see. You can say a LOT …
All we wanted from the broadsheet reviews this week was to be told that Flightplan is a great film. To be honest, we’re going to see it over the weekend whatever the critics say, because even though we know the plot will be ludicrous and …
When we read the headline ‘Orgies and battles’ promised at Paul McCarthy’s pirate theme park in today’s G2 we misread the artist’s name as Paul McCartney and immediately re-examined our judgment of the Beatilic one – imagining the ghost of John Lennon made animatronic and …
A handsome bearded blonde fellow is seen coming up from the underground public toilets near Clapham Junction train station. He crosses the road, bumping into and eyeing up a couple of girls on the way, and enters the Arding and Hobbs department store. He walks …
When it comes to our favourite directors who have also been accused of statutory rape and fallen foul of manic death cults then Roman Polanski is probably in the top five. He’s back in non-film related news because of the ongoing libel court case taking …
Tony Scott is something of a poor man’s Ridley, although to be honest both brothers make some strange career choices. Ridley is pretty much untouchable after giving us Blade Runner, Alien and The Duellists. Post Blade Runner things got a little messy until Thelma and …
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