For a month, in an inflatable igloo, Sir Tim and pun-master Tiernan led children and their families on an arctic-romp, to find lost explorer Franklin, thought to have gone mad and started eating his shoes. Kind of Booshy, if they were as keen as the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to recruit Allan Quatermain. Very silly. Pretty damn good ( Read more... )

Andrew Collins (andrew_collings) was sent to review Red Riding Hood this week. He did not really enjoy it, neither the screening nor the movie itself.

Seyfried looks pretty enough in her red riding hood but the soap opera storyline about who’s-the-real-daddy? isn’t enough to prop up 100 minutes of mediaeval running about with flaming torches and hiding in ( Read more... )

I would like a man called Brad - Pitt maybe, or Bird - to be publicly rude about the film ‘Thor’, so the makers can insist he take it back.


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Al Murray saw a poster for This Morning: The Movie Morning Glory and grinned that it's being puffed as "from the writer of the Devil Wears Prada and the director of Notting Hill", reckoning "that advert contains all the info I need ( Read more... )

Oh Yahoo! Answers. You're like the Just 17 problem page, but for the chimping WORLD.

If you get punched in the breasts a lot? Is it true you can get breast cancer?

Where be the Houyhnhnm! Answers, anyway? Or do horses get too angry to type when all the questions are about why the new Gulliver's Travels movie has carefully removed all the ( Read more... )

I like maths, decent puns, jokes I get without resorting to Google (in your XKCD face, Randall Munroe!). Yes.


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Yesterday, Nathaniel Metcalfe taught me that ( Read more... )

A short fillum made by the power of tilt-shift photography and patience:

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The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare, who is interviewed about the project here.

If you're that way inclined, the internet has many other such shorts. Keith Loutit is a whizz at it too. Lo:

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Listening to Jarvis Cocker’s 6music show, from last weekend. A pleasing fellow, he.

The laconic one says he saw ‘The Road’ a couple of hours before he saw Shirley Bassey live, and found it exactly what he needed thereafter, recommending folk see the fillum but also that they then find their own Bassey equivalent to reset them ( Read more... )

You know when you see a question on a form of advertising and it doesn't lure you towards the product so much as make you want to add some extra words? Specifically, the words "They were cursed by The Children Of The Corn! The Photoshop! The horror!"?


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