Dispensing with the (attempts at) witty chitchat this week and diving right in... Monday: Still time to get tickets for the Last Tuesday Society’s Hendrick’s Cocktail Party tonight. And should you wonder what tenuous connection we’re trying to make between gin and literature (we won’t play the Snoop Dogg Gin and Juice card just yet), hang on there! It’s not so tenuous. On tap at tonight’s party, along with an abundance of Hendrick’s, is......

It's a always sad day when superheroes turn to the dark side. First Spider-Man got all dark and mysterious on the big screen, and now he's taken to vandalism on London's streets. Spider-Man (or a vandal disguised as Spider-Man, which really seems more probable) is accused of causing £1,000 worth of damages to the window of a Chingford Domino's Pizza. Apparently enraged at being unable to buy pizza after the shop was closed, he......

This week - Spiderman gets into more bother (Spiderman 3) and a film that features Avril Lavigne (Fast Food Nation). Peter Bradshaw begins his review of Spiderman 3 thus, Global warming continues. The magnolias are blooming obscenely early. The sky is an unseasonable blue. The burning sunshine seeds tiny flowers of skin cancer on our puckered flesh. And the long, hot summer of pointless film sequels is underway. In the coming months, it seems......