Indeed it is even better that once you are married you still really don’t speak to them all that much. To the extent of not spending much time at home. After all they are just baby making machines who can be easily shut up by white picket fence[…]

A man who spends most of his life away from his family looking after a random town and spending an excessive amount of time with an attractive young woman* is a good a decent husband and father just because he doesn’t shag her.
A lot of people […]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH
2: Albert Finney and Jessica Lange are the same age.
Lange born 20 April 1949.
Finney born 9 May 1936.
And yet it is wholly convincing that they met when they were eighteen in the flick. What is even more convincing is that […]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH
1: Ewan MacGregor looks just like a young Albert Finney.
Just like in some parallel universe (far far away) Ewan is going to grow up into Alec Guinness, it is hard to believe that genetically he is equally mapped out to grow […]

Right, before that crappy bit about adverts on page 3 of the Snide in saturday’s Grauniad devotes an whole hil-aaaar-ious page to this, YES we have spotted that Royal Carribean Cruises are using “There She Goes” by the Las on their[…]

Television highlight of the week: Richard Madeley stings a woman with a bee live on Channel Four.
This is a demonstration to show how bee stings can relieve arthritis. After pointing out that there is no evidence to support such a claim, that the Nat[…]

The main problem with Osama is that the lead is just too pretty. Let me qualify this, she is supposed to be eleven after all and one has to watch oneself about statements like that. She looks too much like a girl. Problem, she is the latest in a long[…]

It is lucky that Its All About Love is called Its All About Love, because if it wasn’t called Its All About Love you might be tempted to ask “What’s it all about”. No, that is too glib. A film which has benefited from the adve[…]

Catterick
The new Reeves and Mortimer (writers and stars) sitcom, on BBC3 at present, is for the most part as odd an affair as you’d guess. Lots of strange characters played by a great cast including Matt Lucas, Dennis Healey, Charlie Higson, M[…]

Empathy vs demonstration. The Dreamers has this problem in spades. Let me explain. Suppose you are making a film about the boredom of small town life. Do you just show said boredom in a detached fashion, or do you go further. Do you risk your audienc[…]