A close friend of mine works for a financial publishing company which employs around 100 other people, all of whom are annually involved in their Office Secret Santa. As many of the employees work in separate offices, some of them have never met, jok[…]

A minor but treasured harbinger of Christmas: the arrival of the Radio Times double issue. Comment on the Christmas schedules can wait for a Do You See post, but I still felt the same warm feeling buying a copy this lunchtime. This despite the fact t[…]

Apparently this is bullshit, but if Oliver Stone needs a scriptwriter with local knowledge… accept no substitutes.[…]

Scratching the surface of dude
Study of the second most flexible four letter word.[…]

DALI MEETS DAHL
No, that would be too fucking glib. But its about time Tom Burton made a good film and even if he arses up this version of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, this day-glo trailer is already a queasy classic.[…]

I’m Dreaming Of An Office Christmas
Volume I of the background CDs for the work do, with thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions.
1. THE DRIFTERS – “White Christmas”(1)
2. JACK SCOTT – “Jingle Bell Slide”([…]

Sleigh this sexy Santa![…]

THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED
Look! Silver jump suits and everything. My favourite is the “i-foot”: “a two-legged mountable robot like device that can be controlled with a joystick.” JOYSTICK?? Take this seriously and plug it direct[…]

No trip to Finland is complete without a visit to Santa’s village in Lapland. It was September outside but in a tiny corner of Lapland it is Christmas all year round. The ‘village’ is a mix of log-cabin chintz and blocky granite sou[…]

Usually Christmas films have the bonhomie of the season coupled with the goodwill-to-all-men message pushed to the fore. This is the meaning of Christmas to these films and thus are more than able to hang saccharine, feel-good fairy tales on the Yule[…]