a) London To Hong Kong
Watch In Good Company. Be surprisingly impressed by this romantic comedy that isn’t. End up making long notes about the Weitz brothers for future DYS article.
Watch Birth with Nicole Kidman. Marvel at Jonathon Glazier&#82[…]

From a great big interview about Civilisation IV:
IGNPC: How do governments work this time around?
Barry Caudill: There are no set governments anymore. In Civilization 4, you can choose from various civics and combine them to make the type of govern[…]

On Brighton Pier there is now a Doctor Who exhibition, which yr fearless reporter went to check out on Saturday. It’s down at the end of the pier, near the fairground and the (ace) Dolphin Derby, and costs £5 for an adult and £3 for a child. […]

‘No one in France had been taking film seriously. Then people were saying you had to […] that was the the thing we had to do first: force it on people that there was “work,” even if you have to tell them now that they’ve[…]

like you i have been revolted bored sickened and soporifically aghast at the varied dullardoid attempts made to interpret “revenge of the sith” as a fable about bush
actually though i *like* this mode of examination a lot but the basic r[…]

following up tom’s post, i just realised i carry in my head a kind of “old person’s equivalent to kid’s free pass” in ref pop cult stuff: viz that if my dad (and obv it applied to my mum too) expressed liking for somethi[…]

(actually of course by the 51st century this is a hopelessly quaint and inadequate formulation)[…]

I refer you to this thread instead, where you will find love and hate of an epic proportion. I am on the love side and I care not what you think. (Not entirely true, but you’re not going to change my mind!)
Instead I wish to talk to you about[…]

I’m thinking a bit about childhood tastes at the moment*. What I’m quite interested in is the moment at which a kid gets the level of visual sophistication which allows them to identify a visual effect as ‘rubbish’. Be it a bi[…]

“Father Dowling’s evil twin turns up again, and causes more mischief”[…]