I do not think that Popjustice is just about pushing pop music, changing their minds about Gwen Stefani singles and bitching about Scooch (all laudable things in themselves). Nevertheless, it appears that the good old ‘Justice have some honest […]

Oscar nominated Mark Wahlberg is back, in this years most high octane film about a SNIPER. In it Wahlberg plays Bob Lee Swagger, an army SNIPER, left high and dry in a covert op in Ethiopia – who resigns and lives with his dogs in the mountains[…]

The drop in 24’s fun-levels is apparent to most fans of the show. And they’ve not been quiet about it on the internets. Writer/producer Howard Gordon interviewed in this LA Times article “Is ’24’ running out of time?&#82[…]

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THE KLAXONS – “Golden Skans” – Score: 4.62 (9th) – Controversy: 2.11 (20th)
(Females: 9th. Males: 10th. Under 30s: 9th. Over 30s: 8th.)
Most like: Maximo Park. Most unlike: MIA. (more…)[…]

There are some pop-cult things which have gone from cult fan appreciation to mainstream currency. And there are some – probably more – which have gone from mainstream popularity to being the preserve of a relatively tiny fandom. As a pop […]

Okay, they come pretty close on this one. Of the three flavoured* offerings from the good people at SC Johnson (A Family Company), one is citrus. The others – for the record – are the remarkably non-descript “FRESH” and the Sa[…]

Actually the XTC single is called Sgt.Rock, where Sgt is the abbreviation for Sergeant. Which is not surprising for XTC, a band so poor at spelling that they could not spell their own name. Even the home counties numb-nutts that were EMF knew that Ec[…]

Next is a stupid movie, almost as if it were de rigeur for a book based on a Philkdick short story. And yet the ideas in Philkdick’s stories often demand schlocky film versions. What other way does Hollywood have to illustrate various ideas about t[…]

Hurrah! For, lo, it is asparagus season again, which coincided nicely with our weekend visit to Arbutus in Soho (srsly, go there, you can have two amazing courses and good wine for like £30 a head which is barely more than a curry in town these days[…]