As befits a program with a ridiculously wide remit as The Culture Show, its quest for best of British design seemingly thrives of category error. How exactly can we compare and contrast Grand Theft Auto with the Mini? Except in as much as it would be[…]

There are two really interesting things about Pavee Lackeen (The Traveller Girl) and neither of them really have that much to do with the director. Well okay, one does, since he chose the theme and actors. It is merely a thought: to what extent is Wi[…]

Perhaps it is time for a name and shame award. Those lousy restaurants, ones which always seat you by the door, or most persistently underseason your food. In pubs, the most hotly contest category has to be the “worst staff award”. Previo[…]

Scientists who have nothing better to do with their time have invented a teenager deterent for curmudgeonly old folks. It works by emitting an unpleasant high pitched whining noise that only teenagers and dogs can hear. (Sounds like someone playing H[…]

Lady Vengeance (or Sympathy For Lady Vengeance as it is still semi-officially called) is the third film in Chan-Wook Park’s vengeance trilogy. The films have little to do with each other, except the theme, and by the time I got to the end of th[…]

There are posters around London as I write for the Wicked Zinger Meal. A KFC joint. Now we all know the Publog has a jones for Indie Chicken. Well I have a jones for non-indie chicken, corporate chicken and the Wicked Meal hits the very spot I love. […]

Which is a plausible argument anyway. But Dwayne McDuffie – comic and TV writer -proves it. Elsewhere the horrible spectre of continuity has been discussed with regards to comics – where the occasional anal fan community pick nits which s[…]

Grizzly Man is the best serious film I have seen for two years (maybe longer). Why? Because it works on so many levels:
1) A nature film. There is something about Timothy Treadwell’s hours and hours of wildlife footage which is beguiling. When […]

Yek/Sue Williams
The question about how political abstraction can be, esp. in relations to painting keeps popping up, an unsolvable corundum in western art history, related to what subject the viewer is extracting. Two relatively recent examples poi[…]

Worth watching to see how we were scared off of ever going near roads, not to mention ever crossing them. Jon Pertwee and his incomprehensible mnemonic SPLINK!
What is nice is the talk back at the bottom of the article where someone suggests the cree[…]