The BBFC should let The Human Centipede creator wallow in his own filth

08.02.17

(Virtuous in case you thought it was a Disney franchise he’d inherited from someone else). Although the first movie – which featured someone sewing together three kidnap victims to accomplish the creature of the title – was passed by the British Board of Film Classification, its sequel has just been banned by them. Tom Six has reacted furiously (how grotesque that the creator of works like this should harbour such dark emotions), saying that he had already warned that part one would be “My Little Pony compared with part two”.

“My dear people,’ he continues, ‘it is a f****cking Flicks [if he directs as well as he counts asterisks he really is in trouble.] It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief [sic]. It is art.” Leaving aside the last three words – you should always be thorough about dropping the A-bomb, it does tend to make you look a prat – I can’t help agreeing with him. Not because I like him, or his unpleasant films, simply because I

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)

White Collar Season Two DVD Review: once a thief, maybe not always a thief

02.06.11

See that advise fully, ladies? Matt Bomer thinks you’re cute. With his looks, charm, and dapper wardrobe, he embodies a fully-realized female dream in the form of his dashing thief character, Neal Caffrey. After an abbreviated stint in prison, Caffrey is now a adviser for the FBI’s white collar crime division, ostensibly because “to catch a thief, it helps to be one” as proclaimed on the extend over blurb of the new Season Two box set. Sure, it’s increasingly far-fetched that the FBI would continue to sanction the prolonged release of this pursuit criminal, but don’t let a little logic get in the way of the frothy fun on tap each week.

Although he’s a superstar thief, Caffrey has a heart of gold and finds himself increasingly enjoying his physician role as well as his deepening friendship with his straight-laced FBI partner and de facto parole officer, Peter Burke (Tim DeKay). I never in reality got the focus on the Burke character in Season One, with the relatively boring and non-essential Burke basically sharing harmonious screen time with the dazzling Caffrey, but this season the partner dynamic seemed to fully gel and DeKay’s dry wit at long last came through as a nice counterpoint to Bomer’s flashy charms. Season Two also saw the welcome continued involvement of Sex & The Burg alum Willie Garson as comic criminal sidekick Mozzie, another thief with honor who is always available to relieve Caffrey and drink his wine while also maintaining his distrust of and disdain for the FBI “suits”. The only real alteration to the core cast this season is the addition of new full-time cast member Marsha Thomason (Adrift) as a fellow FBI agent, a fairly limited and generic role but a bit of eye candy for the guys. Also returning is Tiffani Thiessen as Burke’s loving wife, a role so minor that Thiessen literally dials it in via very poor green screen in a couple of episodes. I have unexceptionally no idea why they keep her on the show.

Source: TV Geek Army