I have been very remiss in not pimping the reissue of Saint Etienne’s Foxbase Alpha in a grand 2CD deluxe edition. (A similarly deluxified Continental is also out: other records will follow across the year.) Not only is it one of my favourite 9[…]

As one of the few people who can speak confidently on higher mathematics AND popular trashy cinema, my heart always sinks whenever the lead in an action film is a maths academic. Its not that the ranks of professors and dons are not by nature action […]

Stats: A raw sheep cheese from Spain, made with a thistle rennet.Bought from: BrindisaTasting conditions: I had this for lunch, on wholemeal bread.

This cheese appears hardish, and has a slightly translucent pale yellow rind with spots of green-gr[…]

Just as there is a thin line between love and hate, or strong ale and LOOPY JUICE, there can some times be not much between excellent pubcraft and pubtwattery. One man’s smart land grab for a table in a pub is another’s aggressive take-over bid. […]

having recently obtained “le gendarme integrale” – a collection of the six louis de funes movies wherein he plays a fiercely proud yet totally hapless member of the french national guard – it occurred to me that there’s […]

All four sports-bloods: Steve H, Tim E, Tim H and Pete B.

Another shockingly underpopulated comments thread. So if you’ve got anything to say about this 1958 Elvis soundalike track do so? Love its staircase of tempo, its atmospheric intro? Or want to talk about Conway Twitty as a country artist, the m[…]

It is unclear who the lead character is in Terminator Salvation. Is it Christian Bale’s grumpy John Connor, older, but less wise than when he was a kid in Terminator 2? Or is it death row inmate, and outpatient, Marcus who equally scowls his wa[…]

Anything For Her (- which seems a touch stronger than the French title Pour Elle) is an okay little prison break thriller. It does however share a with another French film of the last year a lack of ambition when it comes to its central theme. In I&#[…]

So if a neologism is coined ever 98 minutes, say certain lexicographers, the English language will hit One Million Words TODAY! It surely behooves us at Freakytrigger to
a) pooh pooh this statistic
b) whilst at the same time coining the millionth wor[…]