Pretentious irish film critic on channel 4(?)

[themossman]

A few years ago a northern irish bloke used to introduce films on channel 4 (I think, though it could have been bbc 2) with a load of pretentious twaddle about what it all meant. Has since disappeared. What was his name?

[littleoldme]

Sounds very much like Tom Paulin, actually born in Leeds, but raised in Belfast (hence the accent).

Yes, he was very pretentious!

[littleoldme]

Ah no, cancel that! It was a different pretentious git - Mark something or other I think. You've got me on a mission now!

[Loosehead]

You may be thinking of MovieDrome on BBC2. I think the guy was Alex Cox. Essentially he'd do a few minutes on a "cult" film before the film was played. Some of the films where excellent.

[kev100]

Alex Cox is a Liverpudlian, I dont remember him having an Irish sounding accent although it's a lot of years since I saw him on TV

[puttycake]

It does sound like Tom Paulin, and the 'Mark' prertnetious git must be mark lawson, who hosts Newsnight's Late Review (late chattering classes up themselves bore-fest) is probably too long a title, but more accurate!

Alex Cox hasn't got an Irish accent, I have one of his Moviedrome trailers on a film I taped years ago.

[Zen]

Could the pretentious Mark be Mark Kermode /or as I call him Mark Commode because he is so full of ????

[littleoldme]

The bloke I'm thinking of was quite young, definitely had a kind of sing-song Irish accent, I think his first name was Mark (although I could be wrong), and he...talked...very...slowly...and...deliberately, as if he thought the viewers were stupid. Not Mark Kermode (nor Commode!)

[themossman]

That sounds like the guy. Talked very slowly and patronisingly and talked about really obscure things like they were completely obvious - things like "obviously the preponderance of reds and oranges in this scene displays the communist leanings of the film-maker".

[littleoldme]

YEEEESSSSS!! Got him!

It was Mark COUSINS. Phew. Going for a lie down now.

[themossman]

Aaaah - That's him, nice one! And those little introducing film programmes he was on were called scene by scene, bbc 2 not channel 4. Cheers