Is Bugs Bunny funny? I ask because it strikes me that his mixture of sass, insouciance and hyper-active bluster is much more dated than that of many of his Looney Tunes brethren. This was borne out by his lacklustre turn in Looney Tunes: Back In Acti[…]

(Editor’s Note: This write up by Grumpy Pete does not reflect the views of rest of the Freaky Trigger gang, who enjoyed it enormously, shambles or no, but were too bone idle to blog about it – NYLPM Ed.)
The gang from Freakytrigger went a[…]

HORROR HOTEL
There are plenty of television shows modeled around the ideea of Holidays From Hell. However none of them yet have use dthe sobriquet Horror Hotel, which is just as well because it is a real place in Sri Lanka.
After getting off a long f[…]

FT Top 100 Films
36: DUEL
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the central reservation…
There is something wonderful about early Spielberg films, and that something is simplicity. Up until 1941 (the film, not the year unless it was t[…]

TV Poker is pretty compulsive to watch, but no more so than when E-List American celebs are playing. Challenge TV shows a World Poker Tour celeb spesh from probably 2002, with minor movie stars like Jennifer Tilly and James Woods (okay, Woods isn&#82[…]

How to make a nu-Far Eastern Horror movie (based on Phone, and all the other Tartan Asia Extreme movies that keep popping up).
a) Lots of spooky black hair (cf Ring/Phone)
b) Scary evil kid (cf Phone, Ju-on, Ring)
c) Ghosts whose reason for killing p[…]

B-Movies were great weren’t they? Received wisdom suggests that because B-Movies were cheap, throwaway and not studio priorities, this allowed the directors paradoxically more power over their content. B-movies, the darlings of the Cahiers De C[…]

COMPLIMENTARO!!! Travel is about the people, the places, the sites ? but I my favourite bit is ver nosh. Therefore when I think about the best meal I have ever eaten, I think about a place on my travels. The Hotel Ranuka in Columbo did the finest Sr[…]

Now I know that Paula Radcliffe is not in herself an Olympic event, though the amount of accidental P.R. news I stumbled across puts a lie to this. She got more coverage than any of our winners, and the 10,000 metres (surely one of the dullest races […]

Why do people do those lists on Amazon. You know the ones: Ten Great Reads, Ten Books Worth The Wait. I guess there is a degree of vanity involved, and what is the web if not the home of vanity publishing.
Nevertheless how about this for a list. Grea[…]