Blog posts by year and monthJune 2009
Posts (13)
Doctors at Large
After years of bickering about movies on the radio, Doctor Simon Mayo has agreed to join me for a televisual feast of Wittertainment in the shape of 'The Screening Room'. Recorded for the Culture Show, this mini series will be appearing on your televisions and iPlayers next month. Here's a little behind the scenes preview.
Five Live in Edinburgh: the Best Bits
Over the weekend, Mark joined Simon Mayo and a live audience at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, with guests including Jimi Mistry, Alan Cumming, Ian Hart, Andrew McDonald, Duncan Jones and Bill Forsyth. Go to Mark on Five Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this c...
Edinburgh versus Cannes: No Contest
Great films, great people and moderate weather are all you need for a happy film festival and this year's EIFF scored highly on all of the above counts. I also got to share a stage with Sam Mendes and if you tuned into Five Live last week you'll know we did the Friday Simon Mayo show live too. Here's a little taster before we put up the edited highlights later on...
Terminator Redemption?
In your replies to my review of Terminator Salvation some of you felt my analysis was compromised. You were all wrong. I see everything.
Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Armageddon, The Rock, Pearl Harbor... in a way, this is a review of all of Michael Bay's work.
Kermode Uncut 2.0: Public Service Announcement
The powers that be have had a look at Kermode Uncut and elected to spruce us up a bit. I must say I'm jolly delighted and here is a short introduction to the important changes that will affect you the blogging viewer.
Can movies still cause a moral panic?
Horror movies Child's Play, Severance, the Evil Dead, video games such as Grand Theft Auto, and even old action movies like Die Hard and the Towering Inferno can be identified as potential triggers for properly anti-social behaviour and worse... at least according to your blogs this week they al...
5 Live Review: The Last House On The Left
The Last House On The Left, a remake of the controversial 1972 horror movie of the same name. Also watch previous blog entry The Last House on the Left but one. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Silent Movie Special
With my band The Dodge Brothers I recently got to play along to a live screening of a silent movie. With us was Neil Brand, whose mellifluous skills as a silent movie accompanist have been widely celebrated by Paul Merton among others, and a jolly and rather revelatory time was had by all.
Review: Terminator Salvation
Me and bloody McG. This is not the future your mother told you about. It is so much worse than anything Terminators 1, 2 and even the reviled 3 could possibly have prepared you for. It is a dystopic nightmare of unimaginably bad film making, where Christian Bale loses the will to act, and ever...