Even though it’s more television chat, I wanted to compare and contrast three comedy programmes from different terrestrial channels and their relevance to each other. Get A Grip, with Ben Elton, on ITV1; Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul, with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, on BBC1; and Peep Show,…
In my attempt to catch-up on the reviews of the things that have been entertaining me during my most recent sabbatical, here are a few notes on books I've been reading (which are hopefully better than my rather rubbish commentary on the Queen & Country novels; those books are even…
The Witching Hour TPB (collecting issues 1–3) by Jeph Loeb & Chris Bachalo I thought I would remind you that I do talk about comic books as well. However, the choice of material reviewed doesn't necessarily help. In fact, I disliked it so much, I didn't bother posting an image…
Lost Another instance of reading about it on blogs before it came to these shores, Lost was a big deal when it arrived on Channel 4, and it lived up to the hype. An intriguing and interesting setting, characters that had layers and you cared about, and a mystery to…
As someone who enjoys watching films perhaps more than average, I enjoy films that love films. This can be a film that has nods/homages/steals from other films, little Easter eggs dotted throughout, to films that are about films and film-making. Some people think it far too incestuous, a cinematic navel-gazing…
I thought I would write about some of the television series that have been entertaining me recently, even though they are way behind the times. But this was going to happen a lot, especially when the shows are coming over from the US and don't appear on free-to-air channels (in…
A young girl is orphaned, taken in by old man who has also taken in a group of boys – mind out of gutter – who teaches them to be wielders of the sword. They discover that the old man is a former samurai for the shogun and has vowed…
A Gentleman’s Game and Private Wars by Greg Rucka Queen & Country, from Oni Press, is a great comic book series, with a complex leading character in Tara Chace, that looks at a more realistic view of the world of modern espionage, specifically the Special Operations Section of the British…
The New Frontier Volume 2 by Darwyn Cooke Much like the book itself (except for a sentence or two on the back cover), this review has no ‘What happened before …’ blurb (see my review of volume 1 for some history). What I will say about the presentation of this…
I had a strange reaction when watching Bridget Jones: The Edge or Reason. It made me not want to write about it on the blog because that would in some way validate its existence. This made my brain go a little funny, which is more than this pointless and annoying…