Chelsea 4 – 0 Watford.
The reason why holding the big team to a draw at your home ground can never be seen to anything but a slightly delayed result to the big club. Still you make a bob or two. But just don’t even think about calling it[…]

“It was all going well and then you mucked it up. Trust a geologist!” Excerpt from the new series of Rough Science in which our host Kate Humble shows consternation at the new boy geologist getting the wrong kind of rocks to make Plaster […]

Load “” Screen$
Waiting the three long minutes for a 16K Spectrum to load from tape was relieved by the loading screen. For the longer games (there is no real ZX Spectrum worthy of the name larger than 48K) there had better be an interest[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 5
Premise no.1: Battles are chaotic places
Premise no.2: Chaos is by its very nature unstructured
Conclusion: As long as you jerk the camera, constantly change the p.ov., put lots of gruesome special effects on t[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 4
I know villains are suppose to twirl their moustaches, but surely it is too much of a signal to the audience to have a villain whose moustache comes pre-twirled?[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 3
Fans of Liquid Swords by the GZA/Genius will thrill at the moment when the Emporor sends his ninja spies to the Samurai village to kill everybody. Unfortunately fans of decent martial arts movies will note th[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 2
The totality of Tom Cruise’s characters involvement in the politics of the Japanese situation seems to be, these people seem quite nice and are a bit like the savage Indians wot I killed lotsin the States[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 1
How much fun is it to watch Tom Cruise get tthe snot beat out of him with a stick. In the rain.
Answer: Lots and lots. Unfortunately it only happens once.[…]