As for tonight, the Germans were intermittently very impressive, while the Dutch were correspondingly dreadful.
But Ira is not simply the young protagonist of the book; he is also its author — an old man very like Roth, intermittently addressing his computer, who is called Ecclesias.
The film is gory, odd (with its scenes of talking animals and severed heads in fridges), horribly uneven but intermittently very funny in its own tasteless, grand-guignol fashion.
I was going to review the first episode of this new comedy last week, but received the wrong DVD, so my panegyric has had to wait: it's beautifully acted (especially by Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani in the lead roles), wonderfully written (by Stefan Golaszewski), and intermittently very funny indeed.
To underscore and legitimise our paint-flinger's genius, we usually have to await the arrival of some big-noise critic, like Jeffrey Tambor's Clem Greenberg in Pollock, to announce, "By god, Pollock, I think you've finally cracked it!" Same thing in Judd Apatow's intermittently very funny but ungainly and overlong Funny People (how many Woody Allen movies run to 146 minutes?).
I was convinced that were I to go to the hospital I would be met with scoffs and told to go home and fart on my own time, so I stayed in the bathroom, trying to poop, taking a bath, stroking the tiles very, very gently, and intermittently howling.
Post-peak infection the parasite is rapidly cleared by the chicken and resurges only intermittently at very low densities.
This wasn't one of George Manahan's best moments, but intermittently, he conducted very well.
It also reminds us that when Massive Dad are good, they're very good – which happens only intermittently here.
