There has to be a Boyzone.
Any list will always have a Boyzone in it. The nature of Freaky Trigger lists is that by the time you get to the top most people have run out of their favourite items, and everyone gets much more competitive. So to get in i[…]

It’s that time of year…
When I find my journey into work tormented by a new batch of Lambrini ads, said by their website to “offer a real insight into the world of women”. But this Christmas, for once, the least funny advert o[…]

There’s something a little uncomfortable about this headline. And this is the Guardian, not some Spanish rag.[…]

Freaky Trigger writer, posts essay about Lindsey Anderson’s If….
Ah, but its not THAT Freaky Trigger writer, it is Henry K.Miller.[…]

A jogger collapses, dead. A child is born. Intertitle: ‘Ten years later’. These are the first three events in ‘Birth’ and already it has the Luis Bunuel feeling — in spades. This was only confirmed when the end credits l[…]

VIVISECTING ALEXANDER — Oliver Stone’s purest folly — or at least the one I’ve directly experienced, as I’ve avoided a good slew of his films precisely because I didn’t like the other ones — was never going t[…]

Ghastly Tales for Gruesome Kids
It might be a little late to post about this programme as I think it’s off our screens for the moment, but hopefully it will return. Firstly, yes, it’s a children’s show. And strangely it’s been[…]

The Bad Game (as we have taken to calling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) has received surprisingly little coverage here on Freaky Trigger. This is possibly because those of us who own it haven’t had time for blogging due to playing the damn th[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
5: WAYNE’S WORLD
I saw Wayne’s World in Oxford at a midnight preview screening when I was a student (George Street, Screen 1 which was huge before it was parcelled into six screens). The week before I had seen a midnight scre[…]

RUB QUIZ MORE LIKE. Comments on the boorish, unfunny compere at the movie quiz in my local minor sleb hangout would be better suited to Pumpkin Publog, so I won’t make them here. But the content of the quiz itself is indicative of wider trends […]