Donald Clarke

• Moaning
• May 29, 2012, 22:11

Good grief. Marketing men are irritating. Are they not? I’m sure I’m not the only person to get all angry about the release of Guinness’s new “mid-strength” line. I have no enormous objections to the concept itself. We all must …

• Moaning
• January 14, 2012, 20:16

You’d think the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry would have better things to do with his time than talk down Bond villains. Shouldn’t he be off discovering new elements and making blue steam emerge from retorts? The current …

• Moaning Rock 'n' pop.
• September 28, 2011, 22:02

Oh Lord, is there anything quite so irritating as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame? This outburst is prompted by the news that poodle-barband Guns N’ Roses and pop-goths The Cure have been nominated for — such a pompous …

• Moaning
• September 23, 2011, 21:27

Some report by the Thorax, organ of the British Thoracic Society, has suggested that all films depicting smoking should be given an 18 cert. What a load of garbage. At the risk of sounding like Richard Littlejohn, this is the …

• Moaning
• September 13, 2011, 22:14

As you may have gathered from various remarks made here and in various features (read Clarke on John Hurt in tomorrow’s soaraway Irish Times!) I was not disappointed by Tomas Alfredson’s take on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I won’t preempt …

• Moaning
• August 23, 2011, 21:11

At the beginning of the summer — when the blockbusters were still emerging from hibernation — I attended a London press screening of The Tolerable Thor! As the mighty warrior stowed his hammer and the initial credits rolled, I gathered …

• Moaning
• July 28, 2011, 14:25

Last week, despite being on holiday, I filed a Screenwriter column concerning the naughty way film distributors present quotes out of context for their promotional material. Regular readers will be aware that I have touched on this subject at least …

• Moaning
• June 14, 2011, 23:04

Well, some are two-hours long. Others are three-hours long. Films featuring Adam Sandler last about two and a half days (or so it seems). That’s a pretty stupid question, buddy. You want to pull yourself together. Let’s start again. How …