Nigel Kneale's The Year of The Sex Olympics is a startlingly prescient scifi film. Filmed in 1968, it portrays a future where the populace is split between Low & High drive individuals, the latter producing reality-tv pornography to help pacify and control the more numerous former. Leonard Rossiter plays a Co-ordinator of one these shows who decides to commission a new programme called The Live Life Show that'll explore some of our darker emotions. Despite it's dated appearance this is still a thoughtful, intelligent satire predicting the rise of those schedule-filling moronic reality tv shows we're currently cursed with.Robin Hood directed by Ridley & starring Crowe is a decent enough thing I suppose - if they'd had the balls to tell Russell to sort his accent out or just hired someone more competent it could've been much better. It does have an interesting slant on the origins of the titular hero and a few decent action scenes but the rest is bog standard Hollywood guff and it's all slanted towards the inevitable sequel(s).
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