So to Cains Lager then. Voted by GQ the second best thing in the world. Not that I would ever trust GQ to be my beer bible. Despite us not being bale to order their stuff, the nice men at Cains delivered a pallet or so of the Cain Lager bottles. The […]

The Dark is based on a book called Sheep. Well it is a supernatural thriller set in Wales. Clearly the film-makers did not think that the promise of a film where the ultimate evil are represented by our woolly friends would get bums on seats. I am no[…]

Since my first trip there, I kind of fell in love with FACT in Liverpool. The “arts space” concept is often a really bad grab bag of unsuitable rooms to do theatre, art and a few cafes desperately trying to make up the shortfall. FACT seems to bu[…]

There had been some talk about the return of Rentaghost, in the hands of no less a personage of Joe Pasquale. What I had not realised that this was not for television, not even for a low rent satellite company. Instead it was for the stage. Though no[…]

Hostel would be a pretty good film if it was not for its blood splattered excesses. Its blood splattered excesses are what make it a brilliant film. Part allegorical condemnation of US foreign policy, part justification for US foreign policy, part ex[…]

I imagine there were some TMFD-ers at the Greys – Exeter game last night, to whom I extend my comiserations. However, as I caught the first ten minutes on TV in a pub, I knew that even the hardcore fans probably did not hold out much hope for t[…]

Perhaps Ken Livingstone’s comparison of Tiananmen Square with Trafalgar Square was a little bit ill advised. However hios point remains completely valid. Both T-Squares are comparable:
a) They are squares
b) They have a tradition of not always […]

Transamerica has not, in my readings, actually been reviewed by a transsexual. Not that verisimilitude is ever a particularly important trait in cinema, but we do have to consider Transamerica a special case. In the end Felicity Huffman is, for the g[…]

You have Sky One for two hours and it is a non-stop jaw dropping extravaganza of plainly odd television ideas. Which all involve Richard Hammond for some reason. The affable Top Gear presenter seems to be completely at home with off kilter science do[…]

So further journeys into the Liverpool beer story, and more on Cains. Clearly the presentation worked as a bunch of us (including some who have had pretty high powered pub pasts) hunted down the nearest Cains pub for a pint. The Dispensary on Renshaw[…]