FT Top 100 Films
57: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Why did they drop the word Incredible from the title of the Hulk movie last year? Did they feel pointing out the lack of credibility in a tale of a man who gets angry and turns into a nine foot two year old[…]

Do not base your knowledge of 19th century travel on the Jackie Chan/ Steve Coogan Around The World In 80 Days. Its setting at the turn of the twentieth century gives it a number of problems, not least that the route taken by Fogg is frankly lud[…]

I went to see the stage version of When Harry Met Sally last night. Yes, yes, purely for research purposes, though it was actually quite a light, fun evening – which reminded me that like any form of entertainment sometime theatre should be jus[…]

FT Top 100 Films
58: BLACK CAT WHITE CAT
Initial memories? You can’t really get past the the perfection of the farce which destroys the toilet, dumping the auld fella in the shit. But if you want to, then you can also marvel at a film[…]

So there is this Italian restaurant on Battersea High Street. And it is apparently quite nice, but obviously needs the punters in. Because certain nights of the week it will do you half price food. Those nights are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. […]

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All of them involve some sort of portraiture or action shots of people. These ten are all quite badly posed, titled and presented, but I feel uncomfortable about also pointing and laughing at ugly and/or poorly dressed people. And surely every l[…]

When the going gets TOUGH.
The TOUGH – gets going.
 
Why did no-one tell the ten year od me that this song was about rough sex? Its far too filthy for Boyzone.[…]

FT Top 100 Films
59: DEBBIE DOES DALLAS 
  
Anthony Easton says:
 
Debbie Does Dallas is happy. The blondes are happy, the people fucking the blondes are happy, the sunlight is happy, and the green grass is happy. Even with t[…]

Is it the Mercury Music Prize Shortlist?
Or is it the line up at a one day inner city festival?
You decide:
 
Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Jamelia[…]

PUB NUTTER WATCH
 
The Calthorpe Arms. 4pm. Sunday. I go to the bar to get some more of the lovely Young’s Summer Zest. Whilst at the bar I am complimented on the beauty of my daughter. The problem? I do not have a daughter.
 
Initial[…]