Movies

Press for Time (1966) Norman Wisdom gets job with small town newspaper, creates chaos. It's clear that he is just past his prime here - maybe it's the color that makes the archaic schtick seem so unfunny. The one superior sequence involves getting his bicycle hooked on a chandelier - the rest is inconsequential chasing around and pointless destruction. I have now seen all the major Norman Wisdom films readily available, and can recommend On the Beat and A Stitch In Time as the best of the lot. This I have to give a weak 5.5/10

The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) Bizarre and blasphemous amateur film by Timothy Carey, a genuine weirdo. Salesman quits job, slacks off; creates new religious cult and antimusic band, runs for president, challenges God. The SubGenius movie has already been made. 5/10

I made two earnest attempts to get through Doomsday (2008) a dreadful British video-game of a movie. Action Chick with robot eye has 48 hours to go into walled-off Scotland and steal the Virus Cure from the Road Warrior psychos. Couldn't get half way through it. After the total collapse of society I think people will have other things to do besides work on their purple mohawks and design scary looking weapons. The kind of movie where a guy with a stick sees a guy with a machine gun and runs toward him screaming, but it's supposed to be serious. 0/10