FT Top 100 Films
35: DUNE
I’ve never really “got” David Lynch. Possibly because I saw his a few of his films before I could “get” them. I saw Blue Velvet as a sixteen year old, and was a bit bored. A fourteen year old me[…]

For me, Dizzee Rascal is someone who has become really good over a short period of time rather than suddenly realigning the world from the first single on — not the most popular of views, perhaps, but to my mind it’s telling that while I&[…]

Indie Chicken
(You may recall the first instalment of this all-comers welcome occasional series from a while ago. If not, I don’t care. But I would nevertheless like to see local chicken reviews from strange and exotic climes.)
#2 Perfect Ch[…]

Carter Beats The Devil is one of those “real people in fictional narratives” pieces which are often tedious hack-jobs weaving fact and fiction. And they usually involve the death of President Kennedy. At least CBTD involves the death of a[…]

Is Bugs Bunny funny? I ask because it strikes me that his mixture of sass, insouciance and hyper-active bluster is much more dated than that of many of his Looney Tunes brethren. This was borne out by his lacklustre turn in Looney Tunes: Back In Acti[…]

is it tempting fate to delightedly yell “haha in yr face orthodox medical science”?
Ans = yes, since there’s a lot still to be surmounted and my mum remains fairly ill BUT she regained consciousness unexpectedly on monday night an[…]

(Editor’s Note: This write up by Grumpy Pete does not reflect the views of rest of the Freaky Trigger gang, who enjoyed it enormously, shambles or no, but were too bone idle to blog about it – NYLPM Ed.)
The gang from Freakytrigger went a[…]

Vote Beaker the word went, and we did, and it worked! Science has been served.[…]

HORROR HOTEL
There are plenty of television shows modeled around the ideea of Holidays From Hell. However none of them yet have use dthe sobriquet Horror Hotel, which is just as well because it is a real place in Sri Lanka.
After getting off a long f[…]

The Eurodance Encyclopaedia: A fine site – detailed and fun but not comprehensive. For instance – where is Dr Bombay?! Though perhaps I shouldn’t ask. But the absence of Alcazar is puzzling. The site does, however, feature a band ca[…]