It must be a book about Saturday night telly, then… Furthermore, not many boast about the fact with a starburst on the front cover. Yet reading Beadles brief introduction to this fascinating book, its hard not to be taken by his words. He lavishes compliments on Jack Kibble-White and Steve Williams, praising the authors for their understanding and insight. And hes right to. Ad content continues below Whats also pleasing is the distinct lack of rose-tinted spectacles....

Cards on the table: Im a huge Leslie Phillips fan. It was thus with some apprehension that I approached him for interview. Its a remarkable cross-section. They go round the world, being repeated and repeated. And Ive been an actor for a considerable length of time 70 years! Do you still feel very much in that frame of mind? Yes It hink its the frame of mind that every actor has all the time....

It threads all areas of his popularity together into a web of delight and exploration. Incredibly, Peter Parker has been with us over 40 years and hes hardly aged in that time. Hes always been rooted in a reality we can identify with. For someone who was orphaned at an early age. And despite a life of highs and lows, he remains as popular as ever. It achieves this goal admirably....

Shrooms director Paddy Breathnach talks about drug-addled horror… Tuesday 20th November. Bar San Valentino, Soho, London. Theres tremendous potential in the notion of psychedelic horror and theres been wide admiration for the concept behind Shrooms. Do you better have taken mushrooms to follow the narrative of it? Im not the biggest mushroom-head in the world by any means. I was more interested that the film straddled that kind of mix between American teen-slasher and an Asian horror....

Rob checks it out… The new series ofThe Mighty Booshgot into its stride this week with a return to form. Down to business, then. This is once more a Vince-centric episode, however Howards contribution to matters should not be overlooked. It is then up to Howard and his jazz companion Lester Corncrake (a Mr Miagi of Jazz!) to be shrunk down by Naboo and injected to destroy the beast. Ad content continues below...

For those of you who have never seen the show,The Mighty Booshdefies description. But sod it, lets have a go. The series kicks off with a slight change of premise from last season. And once again, you bite into an overtly sugary tartrazine-based sweetie and all the memories come flooding back. Rating: 3 out of 5

The lower profile part of Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, finally gets its UK cinematic bow. But how does it shape up? So thats what it isnt what is it? At its heart is supposedly the release of a bio-weapon, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures. Quite strangely, though, the film skips most of the conventional narrative of zombies taking over. Or what exactly the zombies do. Or where they are, or why....

Craig went and saw Beowulf at the IMAX last night. With the huge, goofy glasses and everything… I just got back from the Waterloo IMAX where I had the pleasure of attending a special screening ofBeowulf. I meanBEOWULF!The capital letters and the exclamation point are both required. It actually kind of works. The visual style of the film is fairly striking and the CGI for a change looks good. Because yes, Beowulf fights Grendel in the nude....

It’s definitely that time of year again - the cinemas are full of horror movies. And this one’s about vampires! Really think about them. What comes to mind? These vampires are not pretty. They are not seductive. Needless to say, I loved it. Thats not to say30 Days of Nightis going to break any new ground. No, its a fairly standard horror movie. People trapped in places, monsters everywhere, lots of screaming and shooting, people gushing blood....

Hasn’t the world had enough of computer game movies? Hasn’t the world had enough of zombie movies? Sarah says: HELL NO! Theyre not like anything else. Theyre also, it has to be said, pretty self-indulgent. Game movies assume that their audiences have played the games and will recognise the characters names and locations. But then, if youve watched the first two, you wouldnt expect anything else. The indestructible Alice is back, and in fine ass-kicking mode....

Everyone loves Bioshock, right? Well, erm, sort of. Maybe not everyone, after all. Chris is in rant mode.. Im going to start this off on a positive note.BioshockIS a good game. It looks fantastic, has a decent storyline, an imaginative environment and some excellent set pieces. Its a damn good FPS. Thats the problem though. Its a good FPS… in a market crammed to the tits with good FPS games....

Aren’t we all bored of bashing Uwe Boll now? Well, stop it. Because apparently his new movie is actually quite good… First things first. My track record with Bolls movies up to this point was relatively clean. I was more than aware, though, of how Boll-bashing had become a standard when judging his films. It involves two members of the Taliban flying an aeroplane, while discussing their impending martyrdom. Similarly to Matt Stone and Trey ParkersTeam America, it doesnt just stop there....

Another review from the frontlines of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. And yes, we’re sure we spelled the title correctly. It sounded weirdly intresting, to say the least. Needless to say, lying to a woman whose memory has betrayed her doesnt inspire a lot of faith. For a first direction, Martine Doyen does a brilliant job. With all of that said,Kommais a little flawed. Still, it is a fairly good movie....