Just a quick note to vent my spleen.
THERE ARE NO KIDS IN THUNDERBIRDS.
You see there were so many things wrong with doing a Thurderbirds movie that it is physically impossible for it to be good. After all the source material is tedious supermarionat[…]

‘If…’ man in ‘Scottish’ claims. No doubt the Bern film festival claims Jean-Luc Godard as Switzerland’s own, but jeez…[…]

political commentators = rubbish reviewers of films #3485
Monbiot’s concluding sentence: “When a scruffy comedian from Michigan can bring us closer to the truth than the BBC, it’s time for a serious examination of why news has beco[…]

How to popularise botany?: two crass routes spring to mind. The first is FLESH-EATING PLANTS. The second is DRUGS. Neither is open to a family attraction like The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Well, OK, you could try for the flesh-eating plants thing[…]

BISCUITS FOR CHEESE: apparently in some reaches of the world, it is not very acceptable just to bite off big chunks of cheese from the block (FULES do they not KNOW the extra saliva = taste sensation extraordinaire?!), and therefore they invest in on[…]

Timewyrm: Genesys – John Peel (7/10)
  (TARDIS crew: 7th, Ace; VILLIAN: The Timewyrm n’e Ishtar n’e Qataka)
Timewyrm: Exodus – Terrance Dicks (7/10)
  (TARDIS crew: 7th, Ace; VILLIAN: The Timewyrm, Hitler)
Virgin Books dec[…]

A Brief Fumetti Fantasy Based On Today’s In-Store Listening[…]

Kingsmill Bread Is Rubbish
The world of the premium white sliced loaf is an odd one.
On the one hand we have Hovis. It’s sold as being bread. Not posh bread, just bread. Which is it all it is, really. A bit more expensive, but at heart it&#821[…]

FT Top 100 Films
65: THREE MEN AND A BABY
Okay. I fail to see exactly what is so funny about the set-up. They are men. They have to look after a baby. Maybe the humour is devised from their differing fathering styles. One is over-protective, the othe[…]

A look at Fahrenheit 9/11 which I decided to post on the Wedge because it turned out I was talking more about Fahrenheit 451 than Michael Moore’s emotive, entertaining but ephemeral docu.[…]