Ping Pong – not a film about the dodgiest of Rupert’s chums. Instead a Japanese film about table tennis. Based on a five book manga. That is a five book manga about table tennis. You know the way they say there are manga on every subject […]

The publog has wanted to do something like the Onion AV Club’s survey of crap snack foods for quite some time. We can all be food scientists after all. Was the largest ingredient in Kola Rollerball’s really aluminium? Was their any food v[…]

What is Blog 7? This month it is a Blog about London. Next month it is a blog about travel. And October? Well you will have to wait and see. The urge behind Blog 7 was simple, there are subjects that the FreakyTrigger writers want to write about whic[…]

Reports of Alan Moore’s retirement seem a touch premature. Look, now he’s writing those old gnarly IPC characters – Steel Claw, The Spider, Doctor Sin. Of course these characters mean nothing to me (where is Martin when you need him[…]

AVENGERS DAY AFTER
(ie: I was too busy to post this yesterday)
3: THUNDERBIRDS
Oh its easy to link the Thunderbirds movie with The Avengers movie. They are both inferior versions of a televsion classic, right? Wrong. As I posited here – a strai[…]

FT Top 100 Films
51: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
Martin Skidmore says:
This has a lot of the things everyone likes in Woody’s work, and almost none of the stuff people don’t. It’s not trying to be Bergman at all, though its apparently […]

Flicking The V’s. So Harvey Smith then, showjumping legend became all the more legendary in 1971 when in the British Showjumping Derby, he completed the course, won and did a reverse V for Victory sign at a part of the crowd. Many say it was at[…]

AVENGERS DAY
2: Catwoman Poster
It is a sure guarantee that an overdesigned poster often leads to a lousy film. Why I remember the poster for The Avengers with Uma Thurman poured into a nice sturdy catsuit with the tagline “Saving the world in […]

AVENGERS DAY: All my DYS comments today will in some way refer to the shoddy Avengers film starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes.
1: The Stepford Wives
I have not seen a film so butchered in editing as The Stepford Wives since probably The Avengers.[…]

“Fancy popping round for a quick parsnip?” For some reason, these ads have sprung up on the side of buses. An ad for coffee. Not an ad, you will notice, for any particular coffee. Nescafe is no long attacking us with Trinny and Susannah t[…]