It barely needs saying that the best project Stephen Hopkins has ever been involved in, and by some distance, is 24. But the others haven’t been awful either, apart from perhaps Lost in Space and The Ghost and the Darkness. Hm. Argument seem[…]

Cara Massimina by Tim Parks
This has one of those irritating cover blurbs where it’s obvious why they put it there, but it’s misleading. ‘Better than Silence of the Lambs,’ says the LA Times. If that would lead you to expect s[…]

Last night we had a massive junk food fest after what seemed to be a never ending working day. We both ate a humongous amount of french fries and a bicky burger and a curry frikandel and some chocolate and… This morning we woke up with a dead r[…]

Adam Faith’s Dream Debased Two TV treats last night but which to watch? On BBC1: Brian Harvey’s reflections on being given the boot from East 17 in My Worst Week. five topped this with Shaving Ryan’s Privates. FINALLY, an investi[…]

The blessed teeny brings to out attention that science has finally caught up to the Simpsons, with the creation of Tomacco (with potentially fatal results!).
(The link also bring up one of the strengths/weaknesses of the Internet: references to news […]

Wandering into HMV last night a short while before what would normally be closing time I was slightly bemused to find an unanticipated gaggle of 40 or so punters waiting for a Mark Owen promo appearance / live set. I was certainly amused, as I left, […]

As you can see from the website, Curtis and Grant are calling for an end to the genre that has made them rich and famous, as they release “the ULTIMATE romantic comedy”. If only it was…
(then again, it makes buying birthday/xmas pr[…]

Stuck on Scrabble! There’s nothing better than a complete and utter revelation within a sport. The moment where say, a football game goes from being a boring kick-about between a be-mulleted-giffer and scary German goalkeeper to an intricately […]

I don’t want my first coffee of the day GOOD, I want it STRONG!!
On days I have to go into work, no problem: the Pret at Angel makes coffee well (they don’t all but that one does). At home, I almost invariably have DOUWE EGBERTS, not cz […]

Red Wine VS White Wine: a recent ILE thread with a lot of poncing about different merlots and chardonnays and other such things which should stick to Footballer$ Wive$ but not a lot of help on my urgent and key white wine question: which is – h[…]