For those of you that I haven’t bored incess­antly with this nug­get of inform­a­tion over the course of the last year or so, I have recently upped sticks and moved from England’s pleas­ant pas­tures to the world of the Springbok, Protea and braai that will be forever South Africa. More pre­cisely; Cape Town. Even more […]

Continuing my loosely flung together theme of smug self sati­fied ‘joy­ful’ films I found on the web, the fol­low­ing peice of genius is some­thing I only recently found — although has been doing the rounds for the last year or so. Initially used to pro­mote the BBC’s iPlayer ser­vice, but also doing a fine job […]

Maybe it’s recent devel­op­ments in my life; maybe it’s the fact that it’s no longer dark at 6 o’clock in the even­ing and my even­ing jour­ney home is rap­idly becom­ing a ver­it­able joy. Maybe even it’s the fact that the wooden par­ti­tions around the out­side smoking area of my local pub came down today — […]

In response to the plinky.com ques­tion: “You have to give away a mil­lion dol­lars. How?” Yeah, I could just go around offer­ing a mil­lion dol­lars to the first per­son I see — but let’s be hon­est here — if I’m the sort of chap that goes around giv­ing away huge amounts of cash like this, then […]

I know the appar­ent meme of put­ting one film trailer’s soundtrack against video foot­age from another with hi-hi-hilAri­ous res­ults is as old as most hills you can think of, but some­times, one chooses a couple of top­ics that just work nicely together. Think of it like a really good cover ver­sion of a song that […]

The news of late is the teensy-tiniest bit depress­ing. So depress­ing some­times that the need for a bit of fluff in one’s life is needed. A little light hearted animal story, perhaps. So what do the world’s news agen­cies decide to teach us?

Sometimes, mere words are overrated.

The one of the nicer prob­lems in mod­ern life these days is that there’s too much choice. Name a product and there are at least three altern­at­ives vying for your atten­tion with their respect­ive thumbs stuck in dif­fer­ent parts of the growth-share mat­rix. Hell, name any­thing and that’ll hap­pen. Unless you’re nam­ing American Banks*.

UK TV view­ers of a cer­tain age may remem­ber Channel 4’s FourMations anim­ated tv sea­sons. Usually con­signed to late night slots or act­ing as tele­visual poly­filla when there were five minute gaps between epis­odes of Countdown and Fifteen-to-One — it usu­ally con­sisted of a wide pleth­ora of the latest anim­ated shorts from across the globe.

The last couple of years have been a tough old time for your com­mon or garden comic film geek. Let’s be hon­est, the pick­ings of decent comic book film adapt­a­tions have been very, very, (oh good God what is X-Men 3 doing?) very slim.