Click is a basic Faustian story. It is Faust done as a comedy, but because Faust is a pretty dark tale all told, a few tweaks have been made. Instead of the Devil we have Christopher Walken (some say the same thing). Instead of a contract we have a c[…]

This was going to be an Index piece, but it got a bit long. This Sunday, 29th October about 8:30pm, the annual mystery film expands to 50 screens (and one assumes different cinemas). Why not go see.
What I really mean by that is, to what extent is ou[…]

Long term readers of Freakytrigger will remember me mentioning on the Publog about a year and a half ago, that Carling were dipping their toes in the weak as piss lager market (currently territory of Tesco’s own Lager). Those who don’t re[…]

According to The Time Out London, the Fifty Best Songs about London. For a list that celebrates the obscure and, well, tries to overdo its cool and hip quotient a bit too far, perhaps it is surprising that Ralph McTell’s “Streets Of Londo[…]

A film which has polarised many viewers. Some love it, find something magical about the long arcs of nothingness, the occasional random thoughts subtitled on screen and the clarity of this singular vision. Others see it as a glorified time and motion[…]

I don’t know the origin of this Google Video, twelve minutes of marble heavy Heath Robinsonesque devices. I do know that it is wonderfully soothing to watch and the (let’s say its Japanese) little Japanese tune at the end of every success[…]

Clearly, as seen in the motion picture, children come out of women. Actually as in a “so graphically it cannot be real” way a baby comes out of a woman. And lo, this is a miracle because:
a) Every baby is a miracle
b) This baby is the fir[…]

The Holloway is not the nicest pub in the world. It used to be a Litten Tree, which changed its name after a murder took place in it. The manager clearly thought that naming the the pub after a nearby prison might put off some of the worst punters fr[…]

The Naomi Watts starring indie Ellie Parker is pretty hard going. Shakey-cam exploits of the lives and loves of a no-hope actress about Hollywood it spends an awful lot of time on whimsical self-indulgent scenes and not enough on comedy. Because this[…]

Page two of the Guardian on Saturday had a picture of a monkey riding a bike, with a remarkably po-faced strap-line of outrage at the appalling cruelty being shown at the Chinese Animal Olympics. But the monkey looked pretty happy and the one liner s[…]