Thursday, 3 January 2008
2008 is here...
posted @1:42 p.m. by Richard Kelly
... and only two more breathless years to wait until we learn whether the events depicted in Peter Hyams' workmanlike sequel to 2001 will turn out to have been eerily prescient. You remember - Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren with a shortish perm and a Russian accent, Keir Dullea as a very decrepit Dave Bowman. But what was the plot about...?
Friday, 21 December 2007
Lynch Winners: "More stuff I gotta do..."
posted @1:34 p.m. by Richard Kelly
The winning entries pulled from my Magic Lynchian Hat of Movies & Mystery were TBD readers Ian Yates, Charlie Lyne, and Mick Millard. Well done, gentleman, books and DVDs on the way to you. And there will be copies of Mulholland Drive going to a few runners-up too. Reading all the entries together was neat, as Lynch might say. I was surprised more people didn't plump for one of the many shafts of wit deployed by Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe) in Wild at Heart. My personal favourite, also unrepresented in this poll, happens to be Harry Dean Stanton's grousing trailer park attendant in Fire Walk With Me, only happy when he's got his 'cup of Good Morning America.' But above all one finds oneself thinking - where does Lynch get this stuff from?
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Competition News
posted @3:20 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Just to say, the David Lynch competition closed at the weekend, the draw has now taken place, and winners will be announced v. shortly... And then coming up in the next day or so, as it's the season etc, there'll be another poll/giveaway devoted to the seasonal figure of Agent 007. So start thinking now about your all-time favourite moments of mayhem and mystery courtesy of Her Majesty's foremost Secret Serviceman...
Sunday, 2 December 2007
Sunday Times: Ten Bad Dates is 'Showbiz Book of the Year'!
posted @12:41 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Possibly our sweetest accolade to date comes via Catherine Shoard in the Sunday Times annual round-up of film/entertainment books, wherein TBD places top with the following citation: "In an age where the top 10 list is the time-pressed journo’s best friend, Richard T Kelly has turned its flippancy into a virtue. Ten Bad Dates with De Niro is a compendium, by some of Britain’s snarkiest critics, of alternative movie countdowns – and the more absurdly specific the better. Highlights include Anne Billson’s Ten Places You Wouldn’t Expect to Find a Severed Head and Tim Robey’s Ten Mighty Apoplexies of Pacino – a rundown of the best “Shouty Al” scenes (number one: the antiGod rant from The Devil’s Advocate). The most popular films mentioned, for the real list-heads among you, seem to be The Godfather, followed, less predictably, by The Fly, which turns up in Best Mad Movie Scientist, Most Memorable Meal, Best Remake That Improves Upon the Original and Ten Wince-Making Instances of Finger/Toe Abuse."
