Our resident film critic Eddie Harrison has thoughts on the wonderful world of cinema and its utterly depressing plethora of absolute wrong-ins.

This is a topic that I feel that I've spent half my life thinking about.

You know, I file a daily blog, a film review every day, and that might be something fresh I've written, it might be something that I've written before, but every time you do it, you have to think, okay, what do I think of these people that I am talking about? And it makes a difference if they have recently fallen from grace.

So, for example, somebody like Mel Gibson.

When I was a kid, I was a big fan of Mel Gibson's like Mad Max films, Lethal Weapon films.

Recently, not so much.

You know, things I've heard Mel Gibson say or get involved in publicly have kind of dimmed my enthusiasm for him.

So what are we supposed to do with that conflict of conscience?

[instrumental music]Time now for a visitation from our resident film critic, Eddie Harrison, who has thoughts on some of the hopes, dreams, and spectacularly inaccurate predictions we've been fed by cinema over the years.

We were in a generation whereby we always knew that we were gonna live through the year 2000 as coined by Pulp in their, uh, song.

Um, and we, we kind of knew that this was like, wasn't just like the end of a decade, which lots of people lived through, but the end of a century, which a lot of people...

And actually, you know, more than that, this was actually gonna be the end of, you know, a whole period of time, the millennium, and we were gonna live through it.

And you could, you know, forgive us for getting into what they call these kind of visionary fin de siecle, you know, the kind of the end of the century, these kind of visionary things.

So you might look back and think of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or you might look back on, uh, H.G. Wells and see these things that are round about the cusp of, of, of the changing century.

Um, and so, you know, we were part of that generation, so we liked sci-fi, and we were kind of forward-looking and into the future.

I think I'm gonna like it here.