Harry's Place Arts

Here is a list of Mike Leigh-directed films which I have watched and, to one degree or another, liked: –High Hopes –Life Is Sweet –Naked –Secrets & Lies –Topsy-Turvy –Vera Drake Here is a Mike Leigh-directed film which I watched for ten minutes on DVD, stuffed into the Netflix envelope and mailed back: –Happy-Go-Lucky Can [...]

Tomorrow night (9pm, Sky One) Battlestar Galactica returns to the UK screens. Apart from the sadly incomplete Firefly series, whose shaky camera space battle footage Galactica copies, this is the best science fiction TV show in the past ten years (Dr Who being the best children’s television of the past ten years). Highly character driven, [...]

The second Nolan Batman film, The Dark Knight, has muscled its way onto the top of the IMDB’s top 250 films: 1. 9.3 The Dark Knight (2008) 2. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 3. 9.1 The Godfather (1972) 4. 9.0 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 5. 8.9 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966) 6. [...]

It’s midnight. I press the button. I wait. Then all hell breaks loose. Megadeth have gone vigilante and are coming in through the roof. Outside, a SWAT team roars to a stop, sirens blaring, and barking orders into a megaphone. I snatch up the remote device and hit skip… skip… skip…. It doesn’t work. The assault [...]