Galaxy Quest is a movie whose premise is born of a lot of cold drinks. Imagine the scene, a Tiki Bar in LA, a couple of jobbing screenwriters have had too many shots of tequila are annoyed by a bunch of bumbling Trekkies (I know) in full Kilngon outf[…]

ESTATE PUB TRAWL 2
The second pub on the trawl, the fourth of the evening is the one that we are not completely sure of the name of (was it the Hand In Hand, or was that the first one). Anyway, this pub was lightly populated, bright and had some Dean[…]

LARGEST PRIME NUMBER DISCOVERED
Oh, BBC website, how you love your splashy headlines. As any fule no (even those of us who lack a concept of infinity) that there is no largest prime number. But what has been found is the largest Mersenne Prime SO FAR[…]

Japanese Story is the wittiest and most original romantic comedy I have seen in an absolute age. Not only does its opposites attract storyline actually work for the first time in years, but coupled with the beautiful background that is the Australian[…]

The publog hardkore went on a little trawl of estate pubs off the New Kent Road last Friday, partially to prove our hardness but mainly to prove that you didn’t need to be hard to go to pubs off the New Kent Road. On this final point we were pr[…]

Martin Skidmore says:
It seems a bizarre claim after almost 80 years of technical improvements and the fabulous special effects we have now, but this might well still be my favourite SF movie. I guess we haven’t had so many sci-fi flicks direct[…]

Everything that has a beginning has an end, suggested a completely different trilogy last year. Inaccurately in my opinion. Nevertheless the loving recreation of Middle Earth in New Zealand did have an end, and it marked the cessation of some clever […]

The Top 100 is pretty light on adaptations of books. This is interesting due to the heritage film industry that does crank them out as the classier side of film culture. Well you will be pleased to hear that Time Regained is indeed an adaptation. Of […]

Counter programming. As the rest of the world watch the rest of the world get destroyed in a bit of snow the smug arthouse congescenti are evading the hordes by slipping in to see the only other released last week. A little bit of Turkish: Uzak. And […]

Oh, cherry blossom. If you believe a certain kind of Japanese movie (and trust me, Gohatto is one of that certain kind of Japanese movie) then cherry blossom is in bloom for about 90% of the year. Considering how much said cherry blossom is also expe[…]