There is very little to be said about the film Underworld that isn’t said on this ILE thread. A high in concept low in thought rip-off of Blade 2, it consists mainly of Kate Beckinsale proving that she has her fathers gift for comedy. Pity this[…]

Nice to see our legislators getting their teeth into something juicy for a change. As is the way with this kind of news, it at first seems remarkably trivial. And yet, one thinks, what is more important to a nations sense of identity that everything[…]

British post-apocalypse television courtesy of Graham Nelson. Having blogged about Survivors I was looking for stuff on The Changes and pondering something about this genre of telly, when I came across this section of Graham’s largely-neglected[…]

Driving in Unfamiliar London Considered as a Chart-Topping Computer Game: I haven’t done it in an age, I realised, but the housewarming (excellent party for a nice flat: thanks for inviting me guys!!) was far far across town (in the wild south,[…]

What is it with teen comedies employing early nineties British indie as their main themes. The American Pie movies have Laid by James as their main theme; supposedly for the rude line ‘She only comes when she’s on top‘. And now Camp[…]

Watching TV while you’re on the phone: my friend AB lives in Toronto, and when she calls three or four times a year, we tend to talk for hours. So she’s describing Matthew Barney’s new Cremaster movie, and whether the film Seabiscui[…]

COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
(Sorry for the delay there, things can get away from you! Onward.)
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Commentator: Ridley Scott
A veddy veddy British English speaker is Ridley Scott. But that’s a bit unfair, that’s more American stereotyping and h[…]

I don’t think the Star Wars drought (presumably dating from Jedi Knight, the high-water mark for FPSs before Half-Life), lasted quite as long as Magnus does. The 2001 PS2 game Starfighter was a fine space fighter game, in the tradition of their[…]

I didn’t enjoy Egg’s return in Teachers. A poor episode with the soundtrack compiler asleep in the corner ‘ I think I counted five or six Dandy Warhols tracks. The resonance between Teachers and DWs is intersting ‘ both seem t[…]

I had to ask our resident fashion, beauty and French speaking expert for a translation of the title Le Chignon D’Olga. Like the subtitlers she replied – with I’m sure a smug look on her face – The Chignon Of Olga, or Olga&#821[…]