Contemporary film criticism is so excruciatingly dull and unvaried, not to mention biased. I suppose it’s apt that as Hollywood movies have become monotonous and tedious to watch, so too have its so-called critics. Never has there been such a palpable cult-like atmosphere where the self-important and the […]
I’m retired from doing this shit but a free ticket’s a free ticket and when I’m confronted with non-stop praise for a flick and it then turns out to be disappointing, I feel I have to vent my filmic spleen. I mean, just take a look at the […]
The public seem to be infatuated yet mystified by quantum physics, so much so that the average person out there doesn’t question the absurdity of what they’re being told about the subject. The multiverse, wormholes, the butterfly effect, the grandfather paradox, string theory, and Schrödinger’s Cat, are all […]
It’s a stereotype that Brits like bland food but it’s generally not true (fish and chips is mouthwatering for instance). If what’s appearing on our supermarket shelves is anything to go by however, this may soon become the truth. Thanks to the sugar tax, the demonisation of both […]
My boss is a slave driver. I’m not his slave you know! Yeah, you tell him. My boss is a fascist, he’s like a Nazi. Don’t even. Likening anything to the Nazis is Antisemitism! My friend told me a joke about Muslims. Well, it’s a religion so it’s […]
The still, quiet, black and white opening titles of World Trade Center are quite fitting for the movie that follows. This is a very unnecessary and boring flick; a dull Drama about an event that was much more dramatic in real life. That event was of course; September […]
I’ll admit that I don’t know much about graffiti, and I’m guessing, neither do most of you. When KRS One made the street art-themed song “Out For Fame” for instance, he mentioned “Cope2”, “Phase 2”, “Nicer”, “Razor”, and “Chino” and when I first heard this track, these names […]
In 2001, a cheap and tacky B-movie titled The Fast And The Furious unleashed a filmic demon onto the world, a demon which over two decades later has yet to be vanquished and placed back in the Hollywood dungeon from whence it came. Who’d have thought that a […]
I cannot stand the slang term “Like A Boss”, not only because it’s been used more than a choirboy in a Catholic church but also because of its confused and misplaced sentiment. If you’ve been living on another planet, the expression “like a boss” means doing something well, […]
I’d never heard of the word “whataboutism” before John Oliver mentioned it as he spoke at length about Donald Trump on his show Everything That Trump Did Wrong Last Week, sorry, Last Week Tonight. If you take the programme’s definition, “whatabout-ism” is a way in which some people […]
The recent death of Gangsta Boo got me thinking about how much Three 6 Mafia changed over the years. I’ll admit that I was more of a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony fan but back in the mid-90’s, I heard Three 6’s debut album Mystic Stylez and loved their similarly double-time, […]
Ben Affleck + Jennifer Lopez = Bennifer Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie = Brangelina Kim Kardashian + Kanye West = Kimye Tom Hiddleston + Taylor Swift = Hiddleswift Tom Cruise + Katie Holmes = TomKat This is what happens when a single celebrity is so lacking in charisma […]
Love Actually is now touted as “one of the greatest Christmas films of all time”, I assume, by the beige, easily-pleased titterati. When this flick was first released, there were loads of folk declaring how mediocre it was, but in recent years, Love Actually has unfathomably snowballed into […]
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