“…And America launches the last of NASA’s deep space probes…”
Of the two US space operas available to me as a child, and then again as an “ironic” Def II viewing late teenager, I always much prefered Buck Rog[…]

Is there another major thoroughfare in London that has such a great array of divers buildings as Fleet Street?

Three Wren churches (OK, so St Clements Danes is *just* Aldwych), The deco majesty of the Express Building, the Protestant Truth Society, […]

Not a review proper — tho I should do one — but just a note of a curious fact about William Mayne’s EARTHFASTS trilogy: viz Earthfasts (1966); Cradlefasts (1995); and Candlefasts (2000). The stories are about (inadvertent) time-trav[…]

Indexed Indexed! Matthew over at fluxblog linked to this marvellous collection of GRAPHS OF STUFF. and what could possibly be better than GRAPHS (and Venn Diagrams) OF STUFF??? Nothing, that’s what.[…]

Blood & Chocolate is a werewolf movie. But its not a horror movie. It is a werewolf movie in the same way Interview With The Vampire was a vampire movie, ie its a load of ole goth nonsense about how kewl, but not kewl, it is to be a werewolf. It[…]

Among the various ground-breaking concepts mooted in the latest nerve-tingling installment of Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop was the suggestion that there might have been a ‘Bolshevik Monopoly’, so households of a socialist persua[…]

It was a bad time to go to New York to try and snaffle some pre-release movie goodness. Half of the big films had been released in the UK first, the rest are about to be released. All I had going for me were the arthouse ones which may never get a re[…]

A spokesman for BBC Drama says: “Thanks to this facility, we’ll be able to produce establishing shots for Doctor Who and Torchwood episodes well into the next decade. And we don’t even have to think of a name!”
Hopefully, Diam[…]

There was a time when you knew a trend, a craze or band was naff because they started be referenced in adverts. In the heady days of the eighties, when Studio Line adverts were on rotation during The Tube and The Chart Show, it became painfully obvio[…]

HOE from Machu Picachu. Host Mark, guests Tim, Steve and Katie. Board Games, Sonido Drasser Lakar – ‘I Feel Great’, Smelling on the Radio, Eli Arrives (c. 19 minutes), Hip hip by Hurrah! punctuation in pop, Hip hip by hurrah in full, Dr Brand and cheap products, seeeed, seeeed catalogues and gardening, Dr Druqs and The Las, Area Codes.