Crocodile Dundee is a truly wretched film. In short it is merely an extended version of Paul Hogan’s Fosters commercials, stretched out to an hour and a half. And what a tedious, prospect that is. “Can you tell me the way to Cockfosters?&[…]

It’s a rather clever sexual paen to Ms Rice. The only problem is that it is done as calypso–so I wonder, is it racist–is he making fun of her race, engaging in v. old stereotypes about sexuality and african american women ?
It is ra[…]

In November 2004 Blog Seven was a blog about the dead[…]

I expected badness from the new version of The Manchurian Candidate. I expected the ground to shift to corporations, attempts at satirising US politics and a watering down of the po-faced conspiracy side to accommodate a modern thriller plot. I was r[…]

The Long Game
Repentance – of the non-trivial – strikes me as a human rarity. Read a piece in the Guardian about Josef Mengele the other day, living out his days eating with a dwindling band of ex-pat sympathisers, grousing about the poor[…]

History Today
Wanting to ‘take the temperature’ of the discipline I picked up the latest issue of this worthy magazine. Wasn’t very impressed. Very dry, very British, rather too military. The best article by far was on conscientious[…]

The Romans
The Romans is another Dr. Who historical story, as clownish and clumsy as The Aztecs is weighty and intelligent. The show is a wretched mix of leaden drama (the most unconvincing gladiator fighting you’ll ever see) and feeble slapst[…]

OUR CHIP’S BIGGER THAN YOURS! Blah blah Playstation 3 chip announced, blah blah 16 trillion floating point operations per second, blah blah bells and whistles blah blah….
I won’t care until they start talking in TERAFLOPS! Computer […]

Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 2: The Railway Tavern, Globe Road E2
Category: Railway
Bang goes one side-theory: that these places would all be super-quick to get to because they’re all near stations. The Railway is only a five minute walk from […]

We’re far too lazy/jaded/secretly into Bennet to do the ‘clever writing about pop’ thing any more, so it’s a good thing that some people still manage it.[…]