SUCCESS!!!!
Finally Team Albatross, made up of some people from this parish (me and Ben plus others) finally won a pub quiz. The downside: it was not in our normal pub.
The Harringey Arms is a nice pub. It has a really good pub quiz. But after six mo[…]

Brazzaville Beach is the William Boyd book I have most wanted to read since drifting into his work. Moreover it is the book most other people have wanted me to read. So they at least will be pleased to hear that I loved it. What concerns me is why th[…]

Bubba Ho-Tep is not really a comic horror movie. Oh it has its gags, and occasionally throws stuff at the screen to make you jump. But at its heart, it is actually a film about the way society relates to the older generation. Okay that older generati[…]

What with Team America: World Police coming out in the US this week, much has been said about Super-Marionation of late. After the stupendous errors of the Thunderbirds film it seems that puppets may well often be the way to go in films. Which may ex[…]

I am probably what would be known (in barbed terms by many people) as a fair-weather fan. The connection between my football team and me is a couple of teenage years when frankly there was little else on a Saturday afternoon. Since then I have seen f[…]

INDIE CHICKEN EXTRA
In as much as I did not eat it, and it was not even chicken. But spotted, in Wood Green Shopping City, opposite the Wood Green Cineworld multiplax is a shared concession. Favorite Fried Chicken / Ardo’s African Kitchen. It i[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
15: A Red Hot Poker In The Eye
SIZZZZLE!!!!
Let us break this down. Is this fear a mere conflation of a number of individual horrible things, happening all at once. The invasion of the eye, the fear of blindness,[…]

Sex Traffic. I wondered about the name. Was it just going to be like Traffic (the film) based on Traffik the TV series but about sex? Answer. Pretty much. A nicely rounded look at the sex traffic industry from the viewpoint of the girls, those runnin[…]

I have on my desk a bottle of Palestinian beer. The importers of Taybeh Beer are interested in SOAS stocking it. We can’t, due to buying restrictions via the NUS, but politically it might be a bit dodgy anyway. Because the distributor si giving[…]

The science of movie chemistry. I would be really interested in this because it strikes me that so many romantic comedies stumble at this, the most important part of the process: the casting. Unfortunately the article is a bit of a gyp because it se[…]