To boil or bake – that is the question with ham. The correct answer is probably to do a bit of both. The point of boiling a ham it seems to me is not so much that it is the optimal cooking method (though it does leave a nicely moist joint if do[…]

Derren Brown plays Russian Roulette was a little overblown. Unsurprisingly really, considering the act of playing Russian Roulette is a pretty quick one. Instead we got an hour of Mr Brown trying to find the the weakest willed man in the country. If […]

Finally something that isn’t ironic to have a go at Alanis Morrisette about. I must admit though, as a youth I often wondered how bands on huge mega-tours remembered where they were every night. Playing the same kind of arena venues with the sa[…]

DO YOU SEE MOMENTS IN FILMS THAT SPOIL THE WHOLE FILM
1: Rosemary’s Baby
It is easy to forget that Rosemary’s Baby pre-dates The Omen and plenty of other films with the idea of the devil being made flesh incarnate*. And it is surprising w[…]

Yes, New York film buffs with their obsessive film viewing habits and lack of any other sort of life were amusing to watch and the film was paced perfectly. But I am not sure if I had such a position of superiority when it was the fourth film I had s[…]

Just to be doubly clear: I never said I didn’t like the Japanese Pizza. Or for that matter the Ni(prawn)pori Chicken Madras. But then I am well known not to be particularly discerning in food matters. I cannot tell the difference between an ora[…]

To follow on from Mark’s amused at Japanese Pizza link, I have to hold my hand up. I have eaten Pizza in Japan. Kyoto to be precise, just down the street from the central Kyoto post office (very near the tremendous edifice that is Kyoto Train S[…]

Where does one start with Black Ball? A film vaguely based on a true story? Another addition to the long list of Mel Smith directed comedies which do not quite work? A stab at Ealingesque class warfare? A film about bowls? A satire on the commerciali[…]

Adam Hart-Davies is not the first person you would expect to find on a sports blog. Unless you take recreational cycling in flurorescent shorts meant for someone twenty years your junior as a sport. Nevertheless, last night (late, post pub) there was[…]

CRISP PACKET COPY 1: Pickled Onion Space Raiders
They came…. From the darkest depths of the uncharted cosmos….
The Space Raiders.
Brightly coloured, bug-eyed, bad guys with really big brains and easily enough alien technology to take over[…]