Vote Beaker: “the nation’s favourite fictional boffin” is the BBC’s latest wheeze.[…]

FT Top 100 Films
57: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Why did they drop the word Incredible from the title of the Hulk movie last year? Did they feel pointing out the lack of credibility in a tale of a man who gets angry and turns into a nine foot two year old[…]

Do not base your knowledge of 19th century travel on the Jackie Chan/ Steve Coogan Around The World In 80 Days. Its setting at the turn of the twentieth century gives it a number of problems, not least that the route taken by Fogg is frankly lud[…]

It’s hard to watch half an hour of film title sequences without the films. It’s like foreplay without fucking, over and over again. Still, you take what you can get. This Saul Bass exhibition is well worth the effort. The denial and frust[…]

FILM-CRIT IN THE BLOOD
mum s: “the other one i hate is mr grek” sistrah becky: “mr who?” mum s: “he’s everywhere: he’s very ugly and green” ” sistrah becky: “the incredible hulk?” mum[…]

I went to see the stage version of When Harry Met Sally last night. Yes, yes, purely for research purposes, though it was actually quite a light, fun evening – which reminded me that like any form of entertainment sometime theatre should be jus[…]

Round-up
Head of Frampton found on bikini
I really really dislike “Year Of The Rat” by Badly Drawn Boy. Just so you know. The perils of the mid-paced rocker: don’t try it kids.
Handy summary of the current file-sharing flap.
What fo[…]

You know those things? Toys, right, and you have a horse on a pedestal or sometimes a man, and you can push the bottom of the pedestal and it relaxes the wires in the horses legs? And so the horse can dance about? And if you push it right in the hors[…]

There is a type of critical practise which I have decided to call Carmodism (cf). It involves hearing echoes of political events in contemporary pop records and vice versa – divining invisible connections that can, when the intuition is right, […]

National Geographic have reprinted a series of adventure & exploration classics. The usual suspects are included; Lewis & Clark, Cherry-Garrard, Howard Carter etc.
I’ve read a couple and the original text has been left unaltered, with[…]