**Written in response to Lobster’s article "Richard Dawkins and the Invisible Menace", following the screening of the TV documentary Faith School Menace.** Wow, lobster, where to begin…? You know, under normal circumstances, it’s a little rude to condemn one’s philosophical opponent for views and motivations you’ve largely intuited yourself. “Dawkins *intentionally* sets up a dangerous (…) Continue Reading »

Finally, another treat from Paris Cinéma 2010: Competition entry City of Life and Death with a Q and A with the director. Continue Reading »

Film japonais réalisé par Katsuhide Motoki, avec Inoue Mao, Wentz Eiji, Tanaka Rena, etc. Lire la suite »

In Faith School Menace? Richard Dawkins sets out to ‘explore the balance of rights between a parent’s right to educate a child in their own faith and a child’s rights to determine their own beliefs and approach the world with a genuinely open mind’. This ‘genuinely open mind’ is a cause for concern, if not outright guffawing. Can Richard Dawkins really imagine an approach to the world that (…) Continue Reading »

LAST DAY Mario just said ‘game dynamics, gameplay, character development.’ Mario’s hands are numbering his fingers Mario’s lips are making fs. There is a shape Mario and Andrew are making we can observe from at least 2 angles. They have changed this shape. Mario and Andrew are speaking in a throat croak. Andrew listens to Mario and watches Mario’s hands numbering his fingers. (…) Continue Reading »

Film grec réalisé par Panos H Koutras. L’objet de la rubrique « Cheezy Monsters » ne pouvait passer à côté de cet ovni (c’est le cas de le dire). Lire la suite »

We are nearing the end of the lazy summer season and its heat wave and procrastination before the drudgery of September kicks in is at an all time high, so the more mind-numbing the film the better to ease the pressure. It’s the perfect moment to catch up on all those so-bad-they’re-good cinema classics, from the more obscure to the increasingly popular thanks to the main actor’s ever growing (…) Continue Reading »

The Paris in the title is basically Australia’s version of Royston Vasey in Peter Weir’s uncharacteristically weird ozploitation classic; a small town whose inhabitants cause car accidents to use salvaged valuables and bits of scrap metal as (…) Continue Reading »

J said J would not say, any other thought, but the other thought she thought. You heard, except she said be. Locked in a TV studio you can only be, not watch TV. The bright lighting says, what is watching but there is anyway night vision. This advert is for a car and is v long and they say it is inspired by (an endorsement deal). You can win (an endorsement deal) and (a photoshoot) you can (…) Continue Reading »

ParisCinema Festival 2010 offering number three is Romanian film If I want to whistle I whistle, directed by Florin Serban. Continue Reading »