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Carnal Cinema : Coming Soon

06 November 2025

Dr Arnold Bloomberg: Acting is like a triangle without corners

27 February 2007

Method acting is a technique used by many leading Hollywood actors. Everybody from De Niro to Hoffman uses it. One of the leading teachers of method acting working today is Arnold Bloomberg of the Bloomberg Academy of D…

From the archives - Paul Verherverint

07 November 2006

"You see he didn't start out as a robot. He was a policeman who was gunned down so naturally they transplant his head onto a robot body to keep him alive and turn him into Cybocop. But the thing they forgot was his ball…

Roberto Benito explains the love behind his Oscar winning film Wasn't World War II Fun?

01 November 2006

"Is a very powerful love story. There is man. There is woman. Man falls over. Woman falls in love. Man wears funny hat. Oh no! Is woman dying of disease? Yes. Then man fall over some more. She get better. They get marri…

From the vault... The Reverend Aloysius Tork: The Lord's Critic

01 November 2006

"The Love Bug features a car that comes to life. Is it powered by the love of Jesus Christ? We aren't offered any evidence that this is the case so we must, unfortunately, assume that it is in fact animated purely by th…

The Mucky Duck

This week Michael Whiner pays a visit to The Mucky Duck, the multi-award winning restaurant owned and run by Heston Charltonthal. The menu leans towards the exotic, with snail soup, frog's legs in eggs and dee…

Margaux Shapiro: Growing Old Disgracefully

It has often been said that men age and women mature. However women, like wine, tend to mature in one of two ways. They either ripen into something full-flavoured, with lots of body and a myriad of intriguing flavours o…

Soul Mama Souths Southern Soul Food Shack

Michael Whiner, semi-retired film maker, part-time restaurant critic, full time loud-mouth and the enfant-terrible of the British film industry; chews over the week's events. This week Michael pays a visit t…

Ah Bistro

Michael Whiner, semi-retired film maker, part-time restaurant critic, full time loud-mouth and the enfant-terrible of the British film industry; chews over the week's events. This week Michael pays a visit t…

Hans Von Looz - Film Making the Dogma 3000 Way

The low budget digital film making revolution is sweeping the industry like a big brush. But in this case the brush is made of pixels, ones and zeros as opposed to the usual brush construction of celluloid, photosensiti…

Sir Wilberforce Reddington: A British Acting Legend at 95

Caine, Hopkins, Connery, Finney, Attenborough, Guinness, Mills, Gielguid, Olivier. Names that epitomise the very best in British acting talent. But one name towers above them all; Sir Wilberforce Reddington. He made hi…

Knowledgology: Religion to the Stars

Forget Buddhism, Kabbala, and Scientology - there's only one religion that the Hollywood A-list want to be seen to be worshiping these days - Knowledgology. It began five years ago when the Reverend Doctor-Professor So…

Forget Cowboys. All Movies Are Gay

Following the success of Brokeback Mountain and Capote, 2006 has been called by some, the gayest year in recorded history. But one man has gone further still. Josh Tenttrow is Professor of Gender Studies at the Uni…

Chunder - The Bush Tucker Buffet

Michael Whiner, semi-retired film maker, part-time restaurant critic, full time loud-mouth and the enfant-terrible of the British film industry; chews over the week's events. This week, Michael pays a visit to Chu…

"It's Intenso Time!" - From Off-White Page to Silver Screen

If the 80's were epitomised by the Action film and the 90's were the domain of the more thoughtful independent film, then the early 21st century could easily come to be defined by the dominance of the comic strip adapta…

Lib Dems: The Movie

14 February 2006

This year has seen something of a resurgence of interest in the political movie with 'Good Night. And Good Luck' and 'Syriana' both doing well both critically and financially. In contrast, the British Film Industry hasn…

iEat, a Living Art/Food Spatial Fusion

01 February 2006

Michael Whiner, semi-retired film maker, part-time restaurant critic, full time loud-mouth and the enfant-terrible of the British film industry; chews over the week's events. This week, Michael pays a visit t…