FT Top 100 Films
43: ZU WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Martin Skidmore says: I mentioned director Tsui Hark in my review of Crouching Tiger a week or so back. I’ve seen, and loved, only a tenth of his films – there’s a recent sequel[…]

Bum Barometer: David Mamet has a go at audience research in the cinema. Even though I have to stifle a cynical cackle at the thought of punters going all sensible and objective when confronted with a questionnaire, I think he has some good points. Th[…]

Casual Free Zone
Pubs in Leicester ban burberry and other (with apologies) chav brands. i had forgotten until a couple of weeks ago on a stag weekend that some bars/pubs still have “no trainers” policies (the lads i was with were otherwi[…]

I just received this press release. How much would you pay for this unique slice of British Pop History? Wespecially to play three of their biggest hits (Feels Like Heaven?)

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I was willing to let Phil Oakey rot in a see of his own flesh and blood (he’s a man) yesterday, but my public cried and said “Slap Him, He’s From Sheffield”. Alan Trewartha, the FreakyTrigger resident design master (who has ne[…]

Kirk Alyn

How Old Is Superman? One of the seemingly undefined aspect of the Superman mythos is that of his ageing. Those who fall on the side of his omnipotence in everything (the superhearing, superbreath, superhair bunch) probably think as a pre[…]

Bobby Robson
I felt a little for Bobby Robson last night. The Sky cameras had cornered him at what looked like a racetrack. Recorded live to air, he was asked about Newcastle’s rather unusual week.
The trouble with Bobby is he can’t stand[…]

I note there has been a massive increase in road traffic accidents recently. Not in real life, but at the cinema, where every other film seems to have a surprise “someone getting run over” scene. It provides the twist in Last Life In The […]

Mikey suggests that Colebrooke Road covers the Regents Canal
Here’s the pictures from the wall near my bathroom (1835 on the left)

It seems to me that looking at the roads around, nothing has changed their alignment – Upper Street, Essex[…]

The great UCI sandwich wars of 2004 — well, said wars aren’t going to erupt fully for another month or so, probably more. But they are incipient, as there are now three different places within walking distance from my office space that w[…]