Wish fulfillment ain’t what it used to be — maybe I should have read a little more closely through the contributors’ list before I checked out What Might Have Been: Imaginary History From Twelve Leading Historians. I’m a suck[…]

Dduk bo rak, my new friend — it’s a variant of Korean BBQ, and according to the review of Shik Do Rak in this typically brilliant Jonathan Gold column, it’s the hot new thing. And Korean BBQ itself, speaking from my ill-informed per[…]

I’m currently reading that Planet Simpson book that purports to be an intelligent look at The Simpsons. Methinks it doth purport too much. For tis – in part at least – a book both created by and created about the ‘slacker&#821[…]

TV Poker is pretty compulsive to watch, but no more so than when E-List American celebs are playing. Challenge TV shows a World Poker Tour celeb spesh from probably 2002, with minor movie stars like Jennifer Tilly and James Woods (okay, Woods isn&#82[…]

How to make a nu-Far Eastern Horror movie (based on Phone, and all the other Tartan Asia Extreme movies that keep popping up).
a) Lots of spooky black hair (cf Ring/Phone)
b) Scary evil kid (cf Phone, Ju-on, Ring)
c) Ghosts whose reason for killing p[…]

FT Top 100 Films
37: INTERSTELLA 5555: THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM
SteveM says:
It’s the most ambitious pop cartoon since ‘Yellow Submarine’. But I5555’s appeal may have been dented by a two-and-a-half-year release gap[…]

Organised Fun: my invisibility on here today is down to having to work. Hardly news, but the work in question is organising a charity event tonight at my company, a ‘pub olympics’ involving various games and a quiz, which I’m settin[…]

Seen on TV this weekend – an advert for the National Lottery which claims your chances of winning increase 100% if you buy a ticket.
Arrrgggghhhh….[…]

News feed: Musicians get instruments stolen
Stolen, but note, not destroyed. They all have the “Distinctive” Scottish Chamber Orchestra sticker on the side, if you do stumble across a cello and apicolo in a ditch. Distinctive like a turd,[…]

Spiderman Reviews Crayons: like the elephant art, this could have been made for the Wedge.[…]