Overdue Movie Review: FAQ About Time Travel

Saturday April 18th 2009

This film is so bad that it’s actually the worst thing on Anna Faris’ IMDb entry, which is saying something for a list that includes four Scary Movie films, Waiting… and a Rob Schneider movie.

This film is so bad that it doesn’t even deserve to have a quote from Front on its poster.

This film is so bad that it gives even British Cinema a bad name.

This film is so bad that I wish I could travel through time so that I could go back to the night I saw it, ‘accidentally’ catch the wrong bus to the screening, come home and watch Eurotrip instead.

This film is so bad that it’s worse than this*:

CASE CLOSED.

(*That’s literally the worst thing I could think of.)

Sci-fi-London

Friday April 17th 2009

I got an e-mail last night about something which I didn’t know was happening.

You may or may not live in London but if you don’t you could always ‘take a trip’ if this is the sort of thing you might be interested in.

Personally, I’m only really excited about one event:

STAR TREK ALL NIGHTER

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  (Dir. Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  (Dir. Leonard Nimoy, 1984)
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  (Dir. Leonard Nimoy,1986)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
  (Dir. Nicholas Meyer, 1991)

You can read some of the details here but basically it’s free, it’s amazing and you get a goodie bag and lots of Red Bull.

Unfortunately, I can’t go. But you can apply for tickets here.

Live long and prosper.

A couple of things I got in the post today

Thursday April 16th 2009

Make of that what you will.

Unsurprising quote from an unnamed film critic

Thursday April 16th 2009

I’m not one for comedies to be honest.

State of Play in 10 easy steps

Thursday April 16th 2009

1. I watched the original BBC series when it first went out but I can’t remember it. I think it was pretty good.
2. The trailer made the whole thing look so disastrous that I arrived at the screening expecting 2 hours of tip top rubs.
3. There was another blogger at the screening for once (under 20 + headphones round neck = blogger). If you’re reading this, get in touch. We can hang out and talk about Animal Collective.
4. Ian Hislop was at the screening.
5. The beginning bit of the film is all about traditional print media vs. blogs so we were all very excited about that. Especially me and my blog friend.
6. You might describe the cast as…
7. It’s got that guy from the still-fucking-terrible Orange Wednesday adverts in it. I kept expecting scenes to fade to black and then have a hilarious little comment from him.
8. At some point, someone will describe this as a British movie. It’s not.
9. You can tell because it’s good.
10. Very good. 8/10 good.