Inventions That Changed the World – The Computer (repeated, I think, last night on BBC2)
A show that has Jeremy Clarkson talking to Kevin ‘Cyborg’ Warwick? How awful can it get? At one point I was charitable enough to think Clarkson[…]

Corny Pastiche
Shrek 2 is a giant patchwork of film pastiches, and even this list of related trivia on IMDB doesn’t catch them all. (Contains a ‘spoiler’ right at the end). I’m pretty sure there was a subtle Matrix reference, […]

FT Top 100 Films
68: THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
So you’ve made a low budget horror movie, received well, regarding the fears of a woman Irena (Simone Simon) who believes she turns into a cat when aroused. Despite this she enters into a relatio[…]

The new Dizzee Rascal single (“Stand Up Tall”) is very pop, very fast, pretty incoherent, more “Lucky Star” than anything else he’s done, and the backing reminds me more than anyone else of… Komatrohn![…]

Alas Hits: to while away a journey recently I bought a copy of Smash Hits. I am so far outside the target market for SH as to be on an entirely different archery range, so the following grumblings can, maybe should be dismissed as the drool of a sad […]

ADDIS ADDENDUM – BOUZE EXTRA
The third and final post about last Friday’s disasterous Ethiopian excursion brings us on to the drinks. I noted below that from an extensive list of beers, including Casablanca and “mystery Ethiopian&#8[…]

Oh, we’re back to the squad numbers thing again. Well yes, but with a mathematicians hat on. Last night due to some sleeplessness I wander down to catch the second half of DC United vs Dallas Burn. Dallas were one-nil up (though the American co[…]

ASPARAGUS EXERTION: bloody hell, they wanted me to suffer for my ANTI-STEAMING comments yesterday, didn’t they now? So I decided to make the ham and soft and cheese and asparagus baked-y things. Yes!
After leaving work FAR TOO LATE, I sprinted […]

There’s only one way to enjoy football and there’s only one sort of football that’s good. That’s if you believe David over at He Made Their Glowing Colours. Guess which sort of football he thinks is the one true path?
Accordi[…]

Tough Love
‘Pialat may well have provided the source code for the elliptical realism that’s become de rigueur for an entire subsequent generation (Desplechin, Denis, Assayas, Breillat, Cantet, Dumont, etc.).’
Cedric Kahn, director […]