I believe it was Lee and Herring who posited the idea of a sitcom based on the experiences of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy. Trivialising what for them was a massive ordeal obviously did not go down well at the BBC and hence it was never made. Inste[…]

Speedier Dating. Want to go speed dating but
a) Put off by the expense
b) Put off by the (really non-existent) stigma that hangs over the whole billy-no-dates deal
Well just go to the nearest pub to a speed dating venue half an hour before the event […]

The British love the underdog. But the British have long memories. So in the FA Cup final puts the neutral in a difficult situation. It being the battle between Man Utd (no-one likes them except their couple of million supporters, they don’t ca[…]

The rule of the comic horror movie is simple. The monster is not funny. This is what An American Werewolf In London and Shaun Of The Dead understand. The remarkable thing about Shaun Of The Dead is it understands this whilst co-opting one of the funn[…]

I will not add to the reams and reams of guff spouted regarding the Passion Of The Ickle Baby Jebus, but to note the one thing I never knew before. Alright four things I learnt from Melvin Gibson’s pretty lousy exploitation movie:
1: The Devil […]

Gothika – or as it should really be called – GoThicko. A truly stupid film about characters who are apparently very clever being very stupid. Put it like this, the film contains the longest sequence I can remember for ages in which the vu[…]

Blackpool. Golden mile. What might this suggest?Well to me obviously, it would be a mile of wonderous, beautiful pints. Blackpool disagrees, its golden mile is named after the slightly sewaged tinged sand. And there are no pubs in Blackpool at all.
O[…]

STOP THIS NAMING FILMS AFTER SONGS WHICH DO NOT APPEAR IN THE FILM FILTH NOW.
Why did I go and see Welcome To The Jungle? Was part of me swayed by the temptation of hearing Guns’n’Roses really loud on the Warner Village sound system. Actu[…]

“There’s a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road – that’s where I’ll always be….” Zatoichi is The Littlest Hobo. With a sword. And lots and lots of bloodshed. The kind of blodshed that would not have been[…]

Much as the Publog keeps a keen eye out for new snack food produce, Proven By Science will occasionally cast its eye at the scientific (and more probably pseudo-scientific) domestic products. And they don’t come more domestic than Domestos Pink[…]