The film critics connected with Twitch Film have decided to write their lists of Shame. These are lists of great films the writers admit to having not seen, despite their presence on many “best-of” lists. At first I was very dismissive. I mean, how can someone call themselves a film critic having never seen classics [...] Read full article
Prometheus And The Podcast
“There’s a familiar phenomenon of filmmakers hiding their loss of inspiration behind the ostensible social or political significance of their work. Ridley Scott does as much in “Prometheus”—not with politics but with chthonic mumbo-jumbo, pseudo-religious, pseudo-biological, and pseudo-mythological bombast, and a lumbering audiovisual scheme to match.” That’s how Richard Brody opens his “What Not To [...] Read full article
Introducing The Society For Film
I love film. I love watching films. I love talking about films. And, I love podcasts. You can probably see where this is heading. For some time now I’ve been working on a collaborative project with James Marsh, a Hong Kong based freelance film critic. Well, that project has now become a reality. I’d like [...] Read full article
Best Films Of 2011
I love watching films, writing about films and doing the whole geeky/nerdy thing of putting films in lists and trying to rank them. But, I always struggle writing a best films of the year post. Partly it’s because I don’t see anywhere as many films as I used to, or as many as you really [...] Read full article
Dark On The Rock
The title of this blogpost is inspired by a comment in Anthony Lane’s New Yorker review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. “A solemn voice declares, “We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings.” Not, as you might hope, a trailer for the Second Republican Presidential Debate but a prologue to “Transformers: Dark [...] Read full article
Second Time Lapse
[hdplay id=2 ] OK, I’ll admit, this is kind of fun. Quick Tilt-Shift time lapse taken this morning. Read full article
Time Lapse Test
[hdplay id=1 ] For a long time now I’ve been wanting to try and shoot some Time Lapse videos of Hong Kong. Kind of crazy that I waited until my last week here to try. Anyway, here is my very fist attempt. If you are interested in trying this sort of technique, here is the [...] Read full article
Urban Futures
It is often said that the most important part of Science Fiction is not the science, but the fiction. In a way it is true of any genre; great stories are what propel our interest. What draws me back to Science Fiction is certainly not the gadgets or technology, but the scope that imagined and [...] Read full article
Clearing the Reader – Recent Blogposts That Caught My Eye
Today I’m in the midst of unpacking and setting up for the first week of the new year. Part of that involves going through emails and unread blogposts sitting in my RSS reader. Of course, I don’t get around to reading all of the 1200 or so unread contributions sitting there. But, here are a [...] Read full article
My Top Ten Films Of The Year
OK, I’m calling this one early, since I fly out on Christmas holidays at the end of the week. Before anyone posts comments about the films that were originally released before 2009, let me remind you that I live in Hong Kong, which means some films only open here long, long after they opened in [...] Read full article