I never managed to see Mel Gibson's movie at the cinema around Easter this year. All I heard were the debates and controversies. It was described as anti-semitic, as being a 2 hour gore-fest and was hated by the media and some churchmen. Gibson was called an idiot for thinking he could make money out of a film where the dialogue was mainly in Aramaic, then he was accused of selling out when he previewed the movie to American clergymen who recommended it to their flock. The worst comment was from the arts editor of Vanity Fair who regretted there wasn't a Hell where he could send Gibson for making this film.

'The Hamburg Cell' is a docu-drama taking an impassionate look at the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre. It depicts the development of relationships between the group of Arab Muslims who were studying in Hamburg, Germany in the early 90s - right through to the events of 11th September  2001.

I want to start this review with an apology. Kim Glass's exhibition at the Brighton Fishing Museum closes two days after I am writing this, so you won't be able to see it unless you read this early in the morning on Saturday 21st August and decide to see it over the weekend.

However, this show is an absolute delight – one of those "Crumbs! If I had walked past I would have missed it!" shows. Kim describes herself as an illustrator, but that title does not really do her work justice. (I've always thought of 'illustrators' as occupying the total anorak wing of the art world). Kim is a painter and print maker.

It's always satisfying to see a great exhibition. It's even better when you come across it by happenstance.

On the way back from a meeting in Folkestone, RAG artist Debbie Zoutewelle and I made an unscheduled ice-cream stop in Rye. Halfway up a cobbled hill, the Rye Society of Artists Summer Exhibition was taking place.

I just thought I'd say “Hi, it's great to be the Editor of Reviews on Artists and Makers!” So let's hear what you have to say, or send me something you want reviewed. In particular I'm interested in small press comix or artist's books. The weirder the better.

This is the perfect antidote to Disney. A story for all the family which will spellbind you, have you playing back highlights and recommending it to all your friends.

A DVD well worth renting is Tim Burton's 'Big Fish' It stars 3 British actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney and Helena Bonham-Carter, all putting on almost convincing Alabama accents, and is a thinking- man's feel-good movie.

I know it's not new, but I recently borrowed a DVD of 'From Hell' with Johnny Depp, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. The case of Jack the Ripper is reopened and the world of Freemasonry and corruption, reaching into the highest eschelons of Victorian society, are convincingly exposed. It is quite simply brilliant, a perfect adaptation of Moore's dark psychadelic vision.

On our way to the Bristol Comic Convention on Saturday 29th May, Dan Thompson and myself stopped at a service station on the M4. There we found ourselves trapped between the two armies of Crystal Palace and, even more terrifying, West Ham supporters on the way to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Now that Charles Saatchi has started collecting paintings by The Stuckists, he might like to pay a visit to the Northbrook College end-of-year exhibition.

An epic work by William Lamb is one of the most impressive works in the Fine Art Degree Show. Filling a wall with voodoo women, dark cartoon characters and broken stereos, it's one of the works that stands out in this mixed bag of a show: just for the sheer scale of vision behind the painting as much as for the technical ability. And it's a picture The Stuckists, with their belief in painting, would happily hang in a group show.

Another work which stands out is far more subtle. Debbie Zoutewelle, already established as a landscape artist, has created a hushed, museum-like calm in an installation in a smaller downstairs gallery. Sluice gates, church panels and battered boards are painted with clay and soils from the West Sussex landscape. The atmosphere in the space is fantastic: it even smells raw and earthy.

The rough, honest and uncomplicated beauty of the ancient, found objects, and the ephemeral nature of the painting on them, make this one of the most mature and accomplished exhibits in the show.