Somersault is a female coming of age drama. Of course in the cinema no-one comes of age like people in real life. For us it was a few weekends hanging around phoneboxes with three litres of MAX cider and then a fumble at a mates party. In the cinema […]

The Woodman is a nice pub in Battersea, not completely ruined by its recent refurbishment. It is odd though when you end up drinking with a local who has been going to the pub for twenty five years and you get a more than thorough overview of pub fas[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
86. Janet Kay – “Silly Games”
What Humans Hear:
Ah, that’s a nice and gentle little bit of reggae. Oh and what a sweet voice. A bit high but – oh – she’s not happy. What a wistful way wit[…]

Ocean’s 12 is a soundtrack in search of a movie. No, scratch that. It is one of those soundtracks to imaginary films made by bands like The Cinematic Orchestra which somehow has stumbled across a film that kind of fits it. WHatever, David Holme[…]

Bit Of Fun Watch has a surprising detour via Proven By Science and our old favourite (though we never go there) The Dana Centre. NExt week on the 10th they have an evening lecture entitled: BINGE DRINKING: Epidemic or Bit Of Fun. The Dana Centre is a[…]

The current trend in the magazine publishing world is taking monthly formats and turning them into weeklies. After the men’s weeklies Nuts and Zoo have decimated the monthly lad mag market, the fashion/women’s monthly was the next target.[…]

What the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy has to say about movie trailers.[…]

MB Games to film update:
March brings us Guess Who? the movie. An everday tale of identity seaking using yes/no questions, and flipping tiles.
Or is it a remake of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner with the twist that the family are black.
Yes, its […]

SPANGLISH
Crubbish more like.*
A light, family friendly “comedy” about the culture clash between and Mexican maid and the quirky Los Angeles white family she works for. For which read reductive, manipulative and misogynist pseudo-entertai[…]

MOST ORGANIC PUB EVAH!
The Duke Of Cambridge on St Peter’s Street in Islington prides itself on being an organic gastropub. Perhaps prides is not strong enough. Puffs itself out with so much self satisfaction about absolutely everything being o[…]