BBC Three relaunched last night. Why exactly February the 12th was chosen for this auspicious debut I have no idea, except to note it was a pretty dead night on every other channel. Even Channel 4 didn’t counter-programme Skins against Phoo Act[…]

 
Folksy, curiously charming indiepop.
Verdict: 6.5 (12 votes, sd 1.0)[…]

You may have noticed an unexplained sidebar on Freaky Trigger – the “Podcast Panel”. A brief explanation is in order:
The Poptimism Podcasts are changing format, and the new idea is that every day, members of the Poptimists communi[…]

Between Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics arriving in the post and my sitting down to read it, two things happened. First of all, my wife picked it up, flicked through, then settled down and read a few pages, before putting it down and pronouncing,[…]

I love Vietnamese food. The perfect blend of far eastern spices and flavours, and French culinary know-how. Admittedly blended through a few hundred years of colonialism, but hey you don’t just leave the baby lying there when you’ve throw[…]

The Diamond Princess does what it says on the tin.
Verdict: 6.44 (18 votes, sd 2.4)[…]

TEN RANDOM THINGS ABOUT FRANZ FERDINAND AND TAKE ME OUT.
1: The intro sounds like the end of another song. Indeed I didn’t know there was an intro until someone (Carsmile?) played the song at Poptimism. So whilst I do think a degree of the succ[…]

Because that’s what the NIT WITS are doing too**.
So let us round up some of the “problems” people have with Cloverfield, bearing in mind that it is a MONSTER MOVIE set in New York.

The Camera Battery wouldn’t last that long.[…]

Investigative monkey makes bubblegum pop.
Verdict: 6.8 (11 votes, sd 1.9)[…]

This afternoon the mindreading goblins who decide which ad goes at the top of yer Gmail ceased their Cougar obsession for long enough to point me to a site called “Openanduseb4”. This turned out to be a place which sells pre-printed label[…]