Hilariously dated mucho macho gangster flick remade from a Howard Hughes original. Watch it for the breathtakingly tasteless clothes, hair and interiors. Giorgio Moroder’s music is also horribly recherche like someone sticking hot knitting needles in your ears; it’s worth watching the film just to see the whole “She’s on Fire” disco sequence, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio dancing like a crashed Calvin Klein dummy on coke, and Michelle Pfeiffer burnt out on too many party snorts and violent men. As for Al Pacino: hammy, woeful, ludicrous and cartoonish are some of the words that spring to mind. A caricature rather than a character.

80s Miami disco-excess at it’s best: so bad it’s brilliant.

Miss Kittin seems to be able to mix anything into anything. This is a downbeat trippy electronica mix that lasts just over an hour interspersed with Miss Kittin’s idiosyncratic observations on music, her life, travel and shaking your ass on a dancefloor. Excellent to dance to, excellent to just have on as ambient background music. Yum.

Moody, jazzy, atmospheric wide screen compositions made to sit around late at night smoking a Gitanes and pondering the meaning of life, love and revolution to. Fantastic.

It’s not exactly a rip roaring laugh out loud rib cracker as the packaging seems to suggest. However, it is a bleakly comic film about a man experiencing liver failure and being admitted to hospital where, as the title suggests, he dies.

The Death of Mr Lazarescu explores that uncomfortable zone where institutional care buckles under the weight of its own bureaucracy. Instead of being a place of healing and recovery, the hospital is a warzone riven by petty squabbling over professional status and the stamping and signing of forms to get various parties off the hook should anything go wrong.

Filmed in an almost verite style, it actually feels like you’re going through this in real time. Excellent central performances by Ion Fiscuteanu as Mr Lazarescu and Luminita Gheorghiu as Mioara the nurse paramedic who gets stuck with Mr L during this night from hell.

This really does capture what it’s like to work and interact with various levels of a hospital environment. Worth seeing if only to hope that you never end up in the same place.

Terrible plot, great looking film. Rips off Bladerunner and every noir film cliche in the book. Avoid.

It still sounds like the future even all these years later. An electro masterpiece from one of the bands that kickstarted the engine of 21st century popular music. Essential listening, dudes.

Watch yuppie scum crash and burn their way through huge sums of money launching an internet company back in the curaaaazy 90s. This is like American Psycho in real life (but without the mutilation), two beautiful corporate lizards decide they want to foist their version of reality (think style mag meets neon shopping mall in Singapore) on everyone else, but get so caught up in the concept they forget to make a sound business platform. If this book is to be believed, there really was a time when you could draw out your plans for world domination on the back of an envelope and get a bunch of venture capitalists to fund it until the pips squeaked! Recommended reading.

Big Hair, Soul Music, Female empowerment, showbiz cliches: abandoned starlets, drug addled ego tripping lead singers, misunderstood songwriters, race riots, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, a secret lovechild, svengali managers and astounding performances from Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy.

You want Beyonce in a big hat getting in and out of a stretch limo, or acting the glacial disco queen in a 70s disco complete with neon tubes and gay go-go dancers while trouncing anyone who gets in her way? You want a totally exciting showtune packed piece of musical fluff that entertains and blows you away?

Then this is the one for you.

I loved it.

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Of course, there is no hell Jessie. There is no God either. It’s all made up to get people to do what they’re told and avoid questioning why they are asked to have faith in what is basically a bunch of fairytales. Fine if you want to believe that, but don’t force it on me thankyou.

This book clearly,cooly and rationally explains why religion is so dangerous: it makes people blow themselves (and others) up. It enables people to rationalise their prejudice against those who are different to them by referring to a rewritten set of stories that have no actual historical or scientific evidence to support them.

Again, fine if you want to believe that but when Amnesty International reports that people are having walls pushed on them, or are being stoned to death or beheaded for their beliefs, (just like in the “Good Old Days”) it’s a little more urgent that we subject our need for religion to a little examination.

Dawkins does this using Darwinist theory and frankly, what he reports is a life changing thing. I don’t want to go back to earth in Biblical times, because people like you would rub people like me out in the name of some delusional entity who apparently guides you in your hateful righteousness.

And one last question, how can you state you’ve consumed a book that you have obviously never read?