Its official: Great Britain is to blame for everything: bad teeth, football violence, Simon Cowell and now the zombie apocalypse. Yep, good old fashioned mad cow disease triggers America’s latest...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. The gangster travelogue continues its global tour by touching down in the mean streets of Jaffa with “Ajami.”...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Ken Wardrop’s first...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Ever wished you’d never picked up the phone? Just let it ring off and go back to bed none the wiser and let the...
The current media blow-up over the Roman Polanski case has exposed our culture's disturbing whitewashing of the personal characters of creative people, as well as served up an entirely bizarre idea...
Roman Polanski’s recent arrest at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland has ignited a firestorm of reactions. No one denies that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl in 1977, or that he has...
I was reading Above The Law a while back, and Duke (an obscure Southern school I briefly attended) was on the verge of being crowned the nation's douchiest law school. Further investigation revealed...
There has been one successful remake of an Alan Clarke film, Gus Van Sant’s 2003 film “Elephant.” Transporting the sectarian killings of Northern Ireland to high-school slayings in America was...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Lolita." After “Eyes Wide Shut” there would never be another Stanley Kubrick film. There would be no more...
Life at the pram-face is tough for 15-year-old Mia. She’s no Wallace and certainly no Farrow but another damaged Essex girl living in the shadow of the A13. Kicked out of school, isolated from her...
