Lookee here Sight’n’Sound. The Godfather is a different film to The Godfather Part II. As such you cannot just roll them into one film to make up for the fact nothing as recent got any votes at all and to sneak something new into your top[…]

WOULD YOU ELECT THIS (or any other) PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS?[…]

The curse of “Of course”. The urge to write “of course” during an essay or a piece is one which comes out of pure arrogance. It is suggesting that you know something that everyone knows, appealing to the intelligence of the re[…]

Since mentioning my Tarkus mural in the neverending Kompakt thread on ILM, my inbox has been flooded with inquiries as to how I obtained such a thing. For the sake of convenience, I’ll respond here.
My wife and I were approached by the staff of[…]

I don’t much like watching the tennis. It’s not the game for me. I like epic one-on-one struggles, tests of nerve and skill and emotional strength as much as the next blogger but I think the darts provides all that much more effectively. […]

We found this boardgame in a charity shop at the weekend. It’s a lavish game with good production values and a nice game mechanism, very similar to the much-loved Judge Dredd Boardgame. Players, controlling any or all the PPGs at a time, move a[…]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
THE B-52’s
In order of preference, your B-52’s in full:
a) A super flying fortress of a bomber responsible with the ability to destroy much of the world or at least the world in the mid-fifties when it was a[…]

The most disasterous disaster film…Deep Impact. As a follow on from Mark’s note about missing Armageddon (how does he fashion these nuggets!) he unfairly lumps Deep Impact in with a whole load of 96-98 disaster epics. On the surface it fi[…]

A Million Love Songs – the ‘all-star MP3 superblog’. Oooh!
(I have signed up to ‘contribute’, expect tat.)
ALSO! Bang and Burn – the hits just keep on coming.
ALSO ALSO! Radio 1 just did a DREADFUL Colin and Edith […]

“NOISE = PROPHECY” except Hollywood Style
Even though Armageddon has the longest sustained purely abstract-expressionist avant-garde sequence ever edited into the heart of a mainstream blockbuster, I didn’t catch much of it last ni[…]