For all those who I was boring on Saturday night – more info on Carrie: The Musical. Initially produced in Stratford Up Upon Avon for a month before transfering to Broadway – for four days. One of the most notorious stage flops, I have sl[…]

The Horror Channel recently stole into the Sky schedules in the dead of night. Programming output is based on a mixture of Hammer Horror, b-movie trash and little known classics such as Hard Rock Zombies – When a rock band are brutally murdered[…]

FT Top 100 Films
60: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
 
Martin Skidmore says:

A film that is 85 years old is pretty hard to watch the way it would have been viewed at the time. Silent of course, and the acting, particularly Conrad Veidt’s hypn[…]

Heat and humidity brings on free love fest.
Anyone else get hit in the face by a winged ant on his way back from an orgy?
West Hampstead saw record numbers of flying ants over the weekend undergoing their brief flying sex-a-thon mating season.  […]

Me Hearties
Songs I acquired at the weekend; a selection.
SHEILA AND B DEVOTION – “Cover Girls”: from an album by the people who did “Spacer”, picked as usual for a promising title. Vigorous disco-rock crossover with a g[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER NEEDS YOU: attention!!! This Friday, your Humble Author will be attending the Big Brother live eviction!! Your Humble Author intends to take a banner and get their ugly mug on the goggle box.  But readers!! I have no imagination a[…]

Walking down the street on the way to the pub the other day, I notice a big poster for an upcoming Thunderbirds film. As a youth I rather enjoyed the works of Gerry Anderson, theme-tunes notwithstanding, I found his childish simplicity and vision of […]

Bringing pride back to African restaurants: ladies and gentlemen I give you the African Kitchen Gallery. After our appalling service in Addis a couple of weeks ago (as recounted here, here and here) it is nice to find a restaurant where service is ev[…]

I am never drinking any cocktail EVER AGAIN, (hem hem),  which isn’t listed on webtender.com. Yes, that means NO MORE PUBS “own-brew” cocktails, YES that means YOU, The Ben Crouch. No more random “blue” stuff for me[…]

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MASTER OF MAGNETISM?
 

 
The other day I started thinking about Magneto. A summary of Magneto’s comics career (as understood by me) illustrates the qualities and perils of a character-led approach to comics, I reckon[…]