This weeks’ film represents a ‘Pound Shop Flick’ in its purest form. I’ve never heard of it, it looks dreadful, and I’m sure come Sunday I will be slotting it in with the one and two star entries on the rankings list.

The film in question stars Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda and uses stop motion animation to bring a major plot point/ character to life. It came out in 2001 but clearly has some hangovers from the 90’s in both its’ presentation and, judging by promises of ‘racy’ humour (almost certainly actually meaning bawdy and/or sexist horseplay), its attitudes.

Interestingly it was also adapted from a graphic novel called Dark Town. The film whoever seems to share little of the same tone as the GN, and the writer of Dark TOwn has more or less disowned this film.

Any of this ring a bell? Comment if so. For now though, here’s a pictorial tease:

What does BrenFra look so perturbed about? Tune in Sunday to find out…

Until then though, some stuff I think is interesting:

-So I wouldn’t normally recommend single songs or performances, but I stumbled upon this the other day and it’s really something. It’s late soul singer Charles Bradley doing Black Sabbath’s ‘Changes’ live and it’s extraordinary. Be prepared to FEEL though, as Bradley sings in memory of his late mother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaOf70M4xs

-Any of you even a little familiar with millennial rap culture will likely have come across the story of Tekashi 6ix9ine, the Brooklyn rapper who recently testified in court as a witness against alleged members of the ‘Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods’ gang. The rapper had featured them in his videos and sought to be linked with them, although was apparently never an actual ‘initiated’ member. It’s an interesting case, but more interesting is the part it plays in a broader story of rap lyrics and videos being used as admissible evidence of the musician’s character. This is arguably a pretty slippery slope to start upon. 6ix9ine doesn’t strike me as entirely without sin, but musicians and artists of all types play characters in their work all the time; no-one tried to lock Alice Cooper up for being a serial killer, and while Johnny Cash did do time, it wasn’t for shooting a man in Reno. Anyway the New Yorker talks about it quite eloquently here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-controversial-use-of-rap-lyrics-as-evidence

-Finally, this nonsense: https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/pig/67598/nicolas-cage-truffle-hunter-film-pig-news

Until Sunday folks,

-Tom