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An amazingly funny and yet biting account of how American capitalist television works (or doesn't). Using slightly exaggerated scenarios, it explores what happens to the "professionalism" and "integrity" of a TV company when boardroom shenanigans prioritise profits over service, and entertainment over truth. The monologues by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty, in the UBS boardroom to Howard Beale), and by Howard Beale (Peter Finch, to his audience) are two of the most penetrating analyses of American business and broadcasting in the movie world. Although it's usually the director who gets most credit in the movies (in this case Sidney Lumet), Paddy Chayefsky wrote an amazing script and deserves his plaudits for the movie. Finch also does an amazing job. Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish.

One of the most down-to-earth and truthful descriptions of life in Britain at the time. The tragedy is that Britain doesn't seem to have learned the political lessons which led to these circumstances occurring, and they seem destined to be repeated over and over again, mainly under avaricious and soulless Tory governments. The drama series itself is outstanding, with the highlight being 'Yosser's Story', a depiction of a man's life descending into mental illness and delusion, brought about by social pressures from every side. At the time this series was written and broadcast, there was still a stigma surrounding mental health problems, and a massive reluctance to talk about the subject in the public arena. I'd like to think that this series (and especially Bernard Hill's depiction of Yosser) helped to reduce that stigma, and encourage people to talk about these important issues to help make Britain more civilised.

No Man's Sky is, on the surface, a great game. A procedurally-generated galaxy effectively gives you an infinite number of star systems to explore. There are lots of activities to undertake, some of them are essential to the storyline, others are optional and purely for players to gain wealth and/or territory and/or bragging rights. There are many ways to play the game, and players can adjust various difficulty levels so they can play the game either as a survival challenge, or simply as a relaxed exploration/base-building game, or somewhere in-between. The problem is that the networking backbone of the game has problems. It's clear that Hello Games and/or Sony are trying to run the game as cheaply as possible, and they simply don't give players a reliable network infrastructure on which to play the game. Every time an update patch is issued, every time a new community expedition is released, every time there's an influx of new players, there are massive problems with network connections and reliability. Someone somewhere is penny-pinching, and prioritising profit over good customer service. For that reason I can only give the game two stars.

No imagination. No talent. No respect for the work of others. No class. An ideal film for 335 million Americans.

"If that's what comes out the front, I don't even wanna KNOW about the back!" Classic line from Wanda! The whole movie is great, but that line always cracks me up completely, especially when you look at her face when she's delivering it!