Funny rain is quite reserved as strange phenomena go. The usual suspects – frogs, fish, clams and whelks and so on – may be nonsensical, but it stops short of the hard stuff: no anvils or grand pianos; a herd of cows is as outrageous as it&#8217[…]

Shystie – “Woman’s World”
Alex Macpherson writes:
She was meant to be the female Dizzee, the girl who would feminise grime enough for the charts and the broadsheets alike while still holding down the scene’s realness. In[…]

all london-based FT posters on standby: equiv mass-crit opportunity not sighted since they cancelled POKEMON ON ICE!

(heads-up courtesy chuck at ilc)[…]

You wait for years for two stories which are microscopically, tangentially related to Captain America, and then two pop up in one day. Secret Origin of Captain America imitates life. Or fdeep frozen death at least.[…]

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As something of an amateur jones-ologist I was pleased when mrs carsmile booked us tickets to see Stoned at the london film festival, certainly more pleased than on leaving the cinema.
There are some good moments, and good performances (david moris[…]

Man invents perfect soldier maker. And before you lily livered pacifists* start moaning about the futility of war and the evils of genetically altered super-soldiers hold up there. Mike Minton is no one man SHEILD, and we won’t be getting blue […]

According to all decent cooks, there is one absolutely key secret to making excellent food. That is tasting as you go. This is possibly why items which transform magically in the oven tend to be seen as more high class affairs, rustic stews and soups[…]

At the weekend a number of Freaky Trigger writers went to the SCIENCE OF ALIENS exhibition at the Science Museum. Space prevents a full account of the exhibition (summary: fun but pricey), however the final room, describing our attempts to contact th[…]

It is apt that The Forgotten was pretty much overlooked on its release. Not only because of its name because it is a quite ludicrous picture. The latest in a line of creepy kid based horror, The Forgotten is notable for being mentioned in every singl[…]