A man who spends most of his life away from his family looking after a random town and spending an excessive amount of time with an attractive young woman* is a good a decent husband and father just because he doesn’t shag her.
A lot of people […]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH
2: Albert Finney and Jessica Lange are the same age.
Lange born 20 April 1949.
Finney born 9 May 1936.
And yet it is wholly convincing that they met when they were eighteen in the flick. What is even more convincing is that […]

PUBLOG CALL MY BLUFF:
What is Chowki? Is it
a) An Indian Restaurant just off of Piccadilly
b) A root vegetable notable for for being halfway between chicory and potato
c) Where Jonathon Ross gets sent when he breaks the law.
It is of course a), and t[…]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH
1: Ewan MacGregor looks just like a young Albert Finney.
Just like in some parallel universe (far far away) Ewan is going to grow up into Alec Guinness, it is hard to believe that genetically he is equally mapped out to grow […]

SPOTTED: Feta Cheese and Black Olive Kettle Chips.
STOP IT NOW!!!!!!![…]

Worst book I’ve read in some time? ‘The Man Who Risked His Partner’ – by Reed Stephens. Or should I say, Stephen Donaldson. Bizarrely reissued under his real name, this is a mid-eighties crime genre outing for the bloke who wr[…]

The main problem with Osama is that the lead is just too pretty. Let me qualify this, she is supposed to be eleven after all and one has to watch oneself about statements like that. She looks too much like a girl. Problem, she is the latest in a long[…]

It is lucky that Its All About Love is called Its All About Love, because if it wasn’t called Its All About Love you might be tempted to ask “What’s it all about”. No, that is too glib. A film which has benefited from the adve[…]

Is greyhound racing a sport? Well it is a battle to determine physical perfection, which might be one of the definitions. However do the dogs really know that they ae racing, do they know that their job is to beat the other dogs, and more importantly[…]

In the pub last night, wistfully looking at the big screen knowing that 24 was on Sky and this could be a method through which I could see it. It did not happen of course. Which made me think about the use of said big screens. Its all sport, sport, […]