Not really. I can’t imagine a more inoffensive film than Thumbsucker actually. Its targets (er, drug abuse, hippy psychology, how being a teenager is a bit rubbish) are about as gentle and barndoor shaped as can be selected. Its style, and cast[…]

Do you know you are famous when
a) They make a comic book of your life?
or
b) Said comicbook is so detailed it depicts your circumcision?[…]

Perfection is a different quality from excellence. I need to make this clear before I start talking about Sky High. What I am talking about, with regards to perfection here, is the idea that there is no conceivable way that the final film could have […]

It was a dark, stormy night and as we tried to get home we hit a nasty bump in the road. My girlfriend, who was driving, thought she had run over a dog so stopped the car. We got out, but there was nothing there. However when we got back in the car, […]

The argument between whether computer games belong on TMFD or Do You See continues to rage on the futuristic battlescarred world that is Freakytrigger editorial in the pub. I sit firmly on the TMFD front. All of which is naught because there is now s[…]

Ananova misses the spooky subtext of this Unicycling Doctor story.
The doctor was clearly possessed by the spirit of the Robin Williams film Patch Adams. More proof that Robin Williams is the spawn of Satan*.
*Also quite spooky in his own right.[…]

Here at Freakytrigger we are always scouring the papers for pointless phrases which are rounded up in dispiritingly small minded articles. And now to join our perennial favourites “Political Correctness Gone Mad” and “Just A Bit Of […]

Once upon a time, if you found yourself at the bottom of Tottenham Court Road and fancied a Whopper, it was easy. You would just pop into the Burger King next to you and be sated. This is no longer the case dear readers, there is a crisis in the worl[…]

So yes the return of Doctor Who has been a massive success. Awards and viewers galore. So how do the BBC capitalise on it. No fair, they raid ITV’s closet.

BBC TO BRING BACK ROBIN OF SHERWOOD.
PROBABLY WITH A DIFFERENT NAME.
AND PROBABLY A BRU[…]

Its probably the (dwindling) mathematician in me: I have always hated the phrase “Less Is More”. Without using < or > (or even ))(( if you know what I mean), I can happily prove that less is not more thank you very much. Perhaps what is r[…]