despite their HOPELESSLY PITIFUL WEBSITE, hackney lido is now finally finished and open and LOVELY — it looks nuffin like THAT either whereon hangs a tale no doubt
all it needs now is a caff as good as shrewsbury baths in 1970[…]

SOME THINGS WE HAVE LEARNT:
i. Notts Forest is in SHROPSHIRE! (proof = they visited clun and knighton)
ii. The Awesome Power of RobEmoWatch! (proof = first words spoken to Maid Pieface = “Nice Pie! Give us a KISS!”)
iii. a merrymen calle[…]

Strange statues around the world
77 of the oddest civic sculptures scavenged from the net. Some might be considered NSFW, but well worth the risk.[…]

My most eagerly-awaited comic of the year came out this week: Grant Morrison and JH Williams’ Seven Soldiers #1. The ‘awaited’ bit had come to carry a bit more stress than the ‘eager’: the comic had been delayed for seve[…]

ok the idea of a vivienne westwoodesque biopic folly abt MARIE ANTIONETTE is so great that — by the time i realised this was what it wz gnna be (yes i waste a lot of energy avoiding moviepromo), i wz psyched for total disappointment
AND DIDN&#[…]

One of the DEPARTURES of the film THE DEPARTED from its source material – Hong Kong thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS – is a DEPARTURE from the TIMELINE* of the original. Not only does the undercover cop character changes his whole identity in IN[…]

his severe gracelessness pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør will be on b.thompson’s excellent LONDON EAR, Resonance104.4fm, between 2-3 next tue (=31 oct HALLOWEEN), to discuss “FEAR OF MUSIC” and with luck INSTILL A DECENT MEASURE OF S[…]

I could go on at some length about how New Police Story, Jackie Chan’s return to Hong Kong cinema, is all about fathers. From Jackie’s surrogate fatherhood of his sidekick, to the villains main motivation being to piss off Pater: this is […]

it is set in BINGE BRITAIN!![…]

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[…]