Archive for April, 2008

Welcome to the moviedrome

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Back in the late eighties and early nineties I was a devoted fanatic of the Moviedrome series presented by Alex Cox, the maverick British director. It was devoted to classic and cult movies to which he’d give five minutes of fascinating, insightful introduction, before they played the film in question.  I always enjoyed the […]

What a carry on!

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

You’ve got a big one! A big and ever growing list of comments that is, on an article called ‘Infamy? They’ve got it‘ on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website. The piece, on the Carry On films, has whipped up a ecstasy of negative feedback from the public - out scoring all other articles on […]

Give it balls

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Some people just don’t get it do they? Many of those people are apparently our MPs and legislators who will be debating the Climate Change Bill this summer. Oxfam recogn the Bill has no balls, so they’ve made a funny ad to encourage us to lobby our MPs.

Hitting the fence

Monday, April 14th, 2008

The rainbow-hued, hydra-headed serpent that is the London Marathon snaked into town yesterday morning, and with 34,000 odd runners it was the third largest London Marathon so far. Autumn and I went down to the Embankment to have a look and support a mate, plus a few thousand strangers. I was also keen to get […]