December 4th, 2006
Mark Kermode advent calendar
Seeing as Guardian film critic Mark Kermode’s name came up recently in the comments here, I thought I’d post this - BBC Radio Five Live’s Mark Kermode Advent Calendar. For each day of December, you get the bequiffed one reviewing a film a day - today it’s Walk the Line. Thanks to Sore Eyes for this.
It’s odd, but I keep thinking of that Popbitch nugget from a while back about Kermode being a total gossipy granny at press screenings. And in yet another coincidence of cross-posting - according to Wikipedia, it’s good to see he counts Don’t Look Now among his Top 10 films.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
jesus, but walk the line is a rubbish bio.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
As much as I love his writing, I frequently disagree with his film views. I thought Walk the Line was quite a lazy film, as biopics go. It was so damn formulaic and just borrowed the whole template of Ray and swapped blues for country.
I’m holding out to see if Kermode’s famous theory about Alien pops up (ie that the film isn’t about Aliens at all, but about male fear of childbirth!)