The British film industry has been a load of old pants for as far back as we can remember. “The British are coming!” Colin Welland once declared after being given a small statuette for a film about men running faster than other men and boy …
All we wanted from the broadsheet reviews this week was to be told that Flightplan is a great film. To be honest, we’re going to see it over the weekend whatever the critics say, because even though we know the plot will be ludicrous and …
A girl I’ve been seeing is hosting a Halloween party with her flatmates. So of course this means fancy dress, right? The problem is I think Halloween is rubbish and I hate costumes. But I don’t want to be uptight about it. What should I …
TV is going monster mad this week, in the run-up to Halloween. There are vampires (The Real Vampire Chronicles, Tue 10.55pm C4 – about Allan Menzies, the maladjusted Anne Rice fan who took his Vampire: The Masquerade LARPing way, way too seriously), demons (The Curse …
Ever since Al Jolson opened his gob in the Jazz Singer the worlds of cinema and rock’n’roll have become inextricably linked. You’re going to have to go with us on the Jazz Singer rock’n’roll analogy but you know what we mean. Almost 100 years later …
In more life mirrors B-Movie news, unexplained swarms of “Super-Midges” are plaguing a business park in High Wycombe leaving possible consumers trapped in their cars too afraid to buy car-stereos. Adding more fuel to the “summat strange is goin’ on ‘ere” fire is the fact …
A slow week for album releases, but we won’t resort to reviewing the The Spongebob Square Pants Movie soundtrack for you. (Although we will resort to mentioning it to justify putting up a picture in an effort to appeal to our kiddie/parent demographic.) Speaking of …
London’s prestigious tennis establishment, the Queens Club, home of the Lawn Tennis Association, is apparently under threat. ‘Under threat’ always sounds so promising but it doesn’t look like the threat is either aliens, Godzilla or rapid climate change, but more financial, as a move to …
It seems we haven’t been able to turn on the telly this week without catching a glimpse of Pamela Anderson. She’s been touring the chat show circuit pushing her ‘novel’ Star (by the way, according to Amazon, customers who bought books by Pamela Anderson also …
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