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What Happened? Sandip Mahal on stereotypes in British TV

10 November 2010

For me television (and the 90’s) really started with Buddha of Suburbia, which had fully developed Indian characters that weren’t stereotypes to cringe at. Yes shopkeepers and arranged marriages were in there but it w…

What Gurinder Chadha Should Do Next

03 October 2010

Gurinder Chadha has had a long career directing very successful films since her breakthrough with 1994’s Bhaji on the Beach. In an industry that is notoriously slanted to male and middle class she has managed to mainta…

Comfortable Stereotypes and an American Work Permit

It seems for British black actors to make their mark artistically and get meaty parts they have to migrate to television and film work in the USA. The roles they play across the pond seem to have more development and ar…

Why The Pacific is not a Patch on Band of Brothers

I watched the pilot episode of HBO’s The Pacific and all my fears of the same run off the mill macho war film were somehow true. As a follow up to Band of Brothers it lacks a lot of characterisation that made the 2002 1…

Maligned Midnight Cult Classic

There was a time up until the late 90’s where late night television cult oddities were shown to fill out the schedules. To most people this was just fodder but for some people this was THE place where b-movie fanatics d…

Does being Final Cut Pro Certified mean anything?

When Avid and Lightworks systems came out in the dawn of the digital editing age there were specialist outlets that provided specific training courses to make the transition seamless. Equipment like that was expensive a…

Who's Idea is it anyway aka pardon me if I didn’t read the smallprint?

22 February 2010

You have a camera, some editing equipment and a great idea and you want to get it out there, you can put it on youtube.com and tell everyone where it is but do you read the smallprint before uploading? You are, in fact…

is there space for another horror film?

06 February 2010

the horror film franchise is still surprisingly resilient and not really showing signs of slowing (some would say that the current incarnation has outstayed it's welcome). The question i ask is if there is space for a r…

Question - Best way to promote Online Comedy?

24 January 2010

i have spent the last 6 months trying to make a small impact on my website with my content that hopefully is something different to what is offered by the established networks (as i have no budget there will be cracks h…