Those Mean Girls posts not quite in full. I have written and discarded three posts about Mean Girls, which suggests that I think this might be the most important film of the year. It is not. It is instead a rather good, smart teen comedy which happen[…]

I don’t read books by comedians (anymore). Oh I used to, there was a terrible phase in my late teens when there seemed to be a connection between live stand-up and novels written by said stand ups. Only later did I realise that said connection […]

Good old Barnet, back again with the great fundraiser from last year. Bid the highest and play for five minutes against Arsenal. Now the cynic in me would say (and did say) that this is surely an ideal time for a Spurs/ Manyou/ Cheslea fan to come up[…]

What has been nice about the recent Japanese horror wave is that it has generally resisted excessive exposition. Whilst the body of the film of The Ring was trying to find out why people were dying after watching the video, this took a resolute back […]

There is a new ad campaign for Smirnoff Black Ice currently bedecking London Buses. The concept is that the formular of the flatter of the two Ice’s has changed. It is now less sweet, and has more “bite”.
How have Smirnoff decided t[…]

FT Top 100 Films
64: MY FAIR LADY
Mo’ puns. Very few people get the “My Fair Lady” / “Mayfair Lady” joke implied by the title as Eliza Doolittle would pronounce it. Perhaps they shouldn’t, since the adaptation from[…]

Trig Brother Gets Evil.
The 31st July, London’s trendy and no longer sleezy Soho, plays host to TRIG BROTHER 4. Is it a pub crawl. Is it a game show. Is it a blatent popularity contest (no – if you see whose won it in the past). One thing[…]

The Story Of The Weeping Camel: well the certificate was correct. There was indeed a scene of an animal giving birth. Which was, and I don’t think I am spoiling this for anyone, a camel. However the weeping is a bit of a misnomer, as with the s[…]

101 Things Removed From The Human Body (because someone had to post it). Really once you have got past the 24 inch steak knife, the five nails and the kid who literally had half of his brain blown out, there was not far for the program to go. Except […]

Discussion on sell by dates, nazi flatmates and mushrooms being a fungus already over on PBS. Also further info on what The Man says about food, including the tiny number of raisins that count as a portion in the five a day race (to my workings, abou[…]