Month: December 2002
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Set up for a War with Saddam
Robert Fish argues in The Independent, that we’re being suckered into going to war. Very persuasive arguement too – look out for the “drubbing” of UN inspectors to determine when we’re likely to see the war.
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Building the Impossible
Two science programmes on the same channel in the same week, and we end up with this? Now I’ll admit to having a soft spot for programmes which build things, like Secrets of the Ancients and it’s ilk. Yes they have some slightly contrived tensions amongst the participants as they decide how to deal with…
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Politics in Films
David Thomson has written an interesting piece in today’s Guardian about the lack of politics in today’s films, with producers scared to introduce it, or maybe not even knowing how.
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The Quiet American
The Quiet American seems to have gone through something of a long gestation between being made and arriving on our screens. According to this article from the Washington Post, the film has been ready to screen for over a year, having previewed on Sept 10 2001. But things are not that easy for a film…