The Grudge. Not Ju:on. A film which would like us to believe that not only are ghosts nasty buggers (like the Japanese version) but in the even more unbelievable suggestion that there are so many Americans in Tokyo they have their own social services[…]

The cover of Murphy’s Favourite Channels is not very promising, it is indeed almost offputtingly poor. John Murray’s book which, in a cosy fashion, juxtaposes the life of a Northern lad made good with the television he watched is actually[…]

I have your straw man right here, Sir
Reason to Rock – offered as a handy resource for certain ongoing ILM debates.[…]

The biography channel on satellite is no way to learn of Carole Lombard’s death. I appreciate that I am probably running behind the rest of the world a touch in acknowledging the death of Lombard, but it had never occurred to me before that her[…]

Indie Chicken – an occasional series
#5 – Laz Fried Chicken & Pizza, 190 Archway Rd, London N6 5BB
Post-FAP last Friday night, I and my boo hopped off the bus, bid goodnight to Pete and headed for the local filthy chicken establishme[…]

Liz & Rob’s Freeview box criticises television
So, we finally got an appropriate aerial to help our shiny new Freeview box do its stuff and provide us with access to UKTV History, BBC 4 and, most importantly, Bid-up TV. Programmes such as[…]

I thought as much.: Britain’s (occasionally) best pop band destroyed by the evil forces within it. Unless of course the real reason for the ‘break’ is that Charlie wants to get in some pre-election campaigning for Mr.Howard.[…]

ITV seem to have missed the point, if you are going to show the Junior Eurovision Songcontest it’s rather pointless to leave the subtitles in the original language the song is being sung in, we want the TRANSLATIONS, so we can LAFF. Also if we[…]

World-historical EuroNoiseniks meet Post-Ballardian Prime-Time Cop Procedural: ok so grissom and the black guy were diggin a PREGNANT* SKELETON out a blob of CONCRETE in the BACK-LOT of a MOTEL (yeah this is a repeat but i missed the first part of it[…]

FEMALE TROUBLE
dir. John Waters
The last few days I’ve been on a bit of a John Waters kick, one of those happy phases with just about anything where you want to step back and take the plunge through someone’s work again when it’s so[…]