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a) Scarlett Johansson playing this films version of Lady Windemere? She gets to do all the emoting in the film, and being a naive young lass does not get to spout any of the Wildean epigrams which the film otherwise stuff into the gaps like an […]

Scott Shaw’s Oddball Comics is an entertaining read once a week, where all he does is uncover a really stupid comic from the past and retell it. There is very little side, or snide, but then there does not need to be. Take this weeks entry Spid[…]

I had a bite to eat in the newly opened Taz by the British Museum. I like the one on The Cut, though I have always found that Turkish tends to lend itself to large groups rather than just a couple. A huge soup bowl of hummus can be a little bit dispi[…]

Predictability and formula in films are often derogatory terms. Cinematic shorthand though allows a film-maker to concentrate much more on other nuances of the film. Equally plotting you can see coming a mile off in a film need not be bad if it feels[…]

I can’t remember that there is anything outstanding about Badger Beer at all. Yet if it is on offer, I nearly always order it. I have tried to work out the reason for this, but it boils down to one simple fact. It is named after Badgers.
I am l[…]

Yet again BBC Three show they employ very, very stupid people.
Repeat after me: BOB MARLEY IS DEAD. HE CANNOT DO INTERVIEWS ANYMORE.[…]

Fantastic article from the Manila Times regarding a Philippines Professor’s discover that Andrew Wiles proof of Fermat’s Last Theory is flawed. The article is best read for Andrew Wiles response to this which illustrates his thorough Engl[…]

QT has directed TV before, most notably a superbly blood-splattered episode of ER. One does not expect his direction of an episode of CSI to be anything less than “icky”. But now he is toying with a whole TV series.
Well he would not be t[…]

Mel C will get a Liver Bird tat on her arse. Finally Steven Gerrard will pull his finger out with an incentive like that.
Oh, and does anyone want to tell UEFA that the Champions League, isn’t, like, a league at all. It’s a cup competitio[…]

You don’t expect an Elmore Leonard book to start in Africa. Perhaps that is the point. The first five chapters of Pagan Babies is set in Rwanda, and is pretty much about the massacres. Admittedly it told me nothing I did not already know about […]