Sorry Mark S, Elton John’s musical based on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is to close. Lestat will not be transferring to London, and after the critical drubbing it got this will go along with other great horror musical flops such as Dra[…]

You know you’re probably pretty drunk when you only notice six sips in that actually you are drinking a completely different beer to the one you ordered. Last night post a free wine reception we went to the Cittie Of York where I asked for thre[…]

There are loads of decent movies based on rubbish books. There are loads of rubbish movies based on decent books. But the movie version of The Da Vinci Code proves one thing, if nothing else – that The Da Vinci Code is a perfectly average book.[…]

As the slow drawn out death of Freakytrigger continues, it is nice to see some young chaps of this parish pinning their colours to their own mast: My Sofa World Cup. One assumes that this will involve in depth eviscerations of every game, every minut[…]

It is one of the hardest decisions an ale drinker will have to make. One of the problems with bitter is it has a penchant of going off much more regularly that any other form of alcohol. Which is why it is often preferable to drink in a pub which has[…]

Score five for each correct hit:
Names we expect to see:
Chloe, Jack, Sarah, Pete, Ricky, Mickey, Kylie (the Kylie generation are above age now!), Shaquille, Dave, Wu, Lewis, Marmaduke, Dunstan, Sanjay, Carsmile, Martin, N., Sharona (My), Jessicca, N[…]

US cinema chain dedicates screens to arthouse and documentaries. I have never understood why multiplexes didn’t do this in the first place. Take Holloway Odeon – it has eight screens of which two have less than sixty seats. Often filled w[…]

Woman Fined £75 For Throwing A Cheesy Wotsit Out Of A Car.
I find Wotsits offensive too. I bet it took them ages to remove the Wotsit dust off of the verge.[…]

The reviews of 16 Blocks are almost a text book example of damning with faint praise. A better than average buddy movie, a notch above th usual buddy movie fare – phrases like that don’t make you storm the cinema. And you know what, they&[…]

Which is thoroughly apt as in the UK it appears that we like to think of our TV news in terms of meals (which if you think about it might be the worst time to actually watch news). Breakfast and Lunch news – ony Dinner/Supper/Tea gets away wit[…]