Volver, an’ that

With canny timing, just before the release of his new film Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar’s Volver was on FilmFour t’other night. It tells the story of a crisis in the main character Raimunda’s life which disturbs the memory of traumas she thought she’d buried long ago – memories which become physically embodied in the form [...]

Who would win?

Klingons vs Nazis? IRA vs Taliban? I wanted to find a clip from The League of Gentlemen, too, where the two video nerds are debating Alien vs Species and other implausible deathmatches – for no other reason than the fact that it was filmed in the late, lamented Palace Cinema, which would have made it [...]