EASTENDERS: ENCORE UN FOIS! New characters all round and I come out of my rubbish DYS retirement in order to give you, dear reader, the Definitive ROUNDUP. First we have the lovely Sash, whose nose is the size of the square and who wears so much eyel[…]

A place where nobody dares to go — showing The Apple to a friend the other night prompted a request to show Xanadu, and thus it was done. It has to be said that of the overblown disco movie troika (English-language, at least), consisting of sai[…]

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Scary people for a scary world
#4: PAUL “What would you spend that money on?” MARTIN
Those of you who’ve been spending a fair bit of time indoors lately may well have noticed that daytime BBC is beginning to resemble a[…]

Great Ceefax TV Listings Of Our Time
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0600: TELETUBBIES– Extended weekend edition[…]

FT Top 100 Films
33: THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Martin Skidmore says:
I guess this was among the inevitable inclusions in this list – there must be hatas somewhere among young/ish people, but I don’t know them. Jeff Bridges, one of my absolute favo[…]

Planets = Big Towns. One of the problems with Space Opera style science fiction is that it tends just to scale up normal adventure fiction into the larger sizes of the universe. Therefore we get spaceships that do trips of a few thousand light years […]

Defending Dune: I like Dune, having seen it twice. Once at my house, once at a friends. Both times have something in common (other than Dune). I was drunk, and getting more so.
It is not true that all films seem better when you’re drunk. Films […]

FT Top 100 Films
34: TRON
If Tron taught kids one thing, it is that films that look good, and are about things we like, will not necessarily be good. It possibly allowed breathless sci-fi kiddies to consider The Return Of The Jedi to be better than i[…]

FT Top 100 Films
35: DUNE
I’ve never really “got” David Lynch. Possibly because I saw his a few of his films before I could “get” them. I saw Blue Velvet as a sixteen year old, and was a bit bored. A fourteen year old me[…]

Is Bugs Bunny funny? I ask because it strikes me that his mixture of sass, insouciance and hyper-active bluster is much more dated than that of many of his Looney Tunes brethren. This was borne out by his lacklustre turn in Looney Tunes: Back In Acti[…]