I have just seen the new short film that Nick Livesy has produced for well-groomed cycling barons, Rapha. The film is an evocative but gritty take on the personal sacrifices of Johan Museeuw, twists, turns and history of one of the cycling calendar’s toughest races, the Paris Roubaix. Ridley Scott Associates have clearly had a [...]

I’m not really in the habit of applauding TV spots. I find that television can be so disposable these days and through a general disconnection with it, I have seemed to develop an unreasonable and ungrounded distrust of TV spots – Most of which are often highly imaginative and incredibly well polished. But a couple [...]

“The music is different here.  The vibrations are different, not like planet Earth”. This little snippet has had me flummoxed for years. I’ve heard the distinctive stoned-out, deep-South drawl uttering these words on countless music tracks as a sample and although I had a rough idea who it was that said it, i didn’t know [...]

Nothing is more satisfying than snubbing the gold-plated visage of Hollywood and occasionally cashing in your film morals to watch something along the lines of Astro Zombies – The movie equivalent of writing your name in your own shit… on your neighbours lawn. Hollywood drives us to watch these films as an antidote. It is, [...]

Every now and again I come back to the classic Manga films of my youth… Akira, Fist of the North Star, Metropolis, AD Tank Police, and the wonderful Ninja Scroll. The more I think about it, the more I realise what a significant effect they had on my mind and my perspective of science fiction. [...]

Sorry for the delay in the posts recently – work has been turning the screws horridly. But seen as it is All Hallow’s Eve, I thought I would drop a post worthy of such a night. I recently bought a copy of Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by the author of fear himself, M.R [...]

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but I recently watched it again and thought it was worth a revisit. Not content with producing lavish blockbuster rehashes of fairy tales and building fibre-glass pink castles in California; Disney commissioned animator and director Ward Kimball to produce a cartoon called ‘Magic Highway USA‘ as [...]

As a hopeless nostalgic, I have found no other website more capable of filling the gaps in my vintage memoirs than TV Ark. I’ve made references to this site in a previous post where I found some rare content on the BBC Schools program, Watch. But by Jove! There is so much more to be [...]