The Saddest Music In The World is not a Leonard Cohen biopic, but despite that (or probably because of it) it manages to be a whole mess of fun. The plot? The literally legless Isabella Rosellini is running a saddest music in the world contest at her[…]

When is a game not a game? I flicked through the new Edge on the way home yesterday with growing unease. EyeToy up for an award – fair do’s, it’s a great idea and well executed. Glowing review for karaoke game Singstar? Hmmm. News i[…]

Ok, so everyone knows all too well that Friends and Frasier have ended, but where is the publicity for NBC’s greatest loss? Next week’s season finale of Law & Order is the last episode with Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe. This man i[…]

(This entry gives away the entire twist in the film Secret Window, partially as a warning to anyone who may go to see it. It is spoiled already people, this is a service)
One of the notable symptoms of split personality disorder, that does not happen[…]

The Smash Hits Charts, Saturday 8th May. TheFit But You Know It video is on. In pretty much every scene Mike Skinner or associated crowd are drinking. But what are they drinking. Well its quite hard to say because all the cans and bottles are blurred[…]

Championing a film that everyone else thinks is rubbish is about as much fun as can be had talking about film. Problem is you often go from liking a film a bit, to wide eyed evangelicism in a matter of days. I have noticed myself talking about The Co[…]

The sound went ker-fluiieee when I went to see Van Helsing on Sunday. (Yes I know, I too fear that I am becoming a jinx). So my experience of the film is tempered by
a) Missing a bit in the middle while I went out to notify/complain to the management[…]

The Honeymooners is a low budget Irish romantic comedy with a solid script, attractive leads and a nice flair for naturalistic characterisation. At least it is when the camera is pointing at the action, and not flipping all over the gaffe. It is quit[…]

Everyone knows that Boogie Nights was loosely based of the life of John Holmes, right? That was the justification for putting the let-down last quarter in. The heist gone wrong section of Dirk Diggler’s life seemed out of place in the otherwise[…]

“A compromise would be nice but in establishing factors for canonicity we cannot bend.”
Thus spake the self-appointed arbiter of what may constitute a proper Doctor Who story. The only reason I found myself reading this was to see what t[…]