Month: March 2010

  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

    One of my favourite series of novels of recent years has been Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. I’ve read all three of the novels in hardback no less, having read interesting things about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ahead of its English language publication in January 2008. By October last year, the final volume of…

  • Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast

    Here’s a turn up for the books – me talking about something on the radio that you have more than one day to listen to! Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast is an excellent play based around the making of Witchfinder General in 1967. If you’ve never seen Witchfinder General, then…

  • Radio Times 5 March 2010

    The weekend’s nearly here, and I’ve put this up early so you can plan your Friday’s viewing. This time around, I’ve used the medium of multi-coloured Post-It notes! As ever, best viewed large. PS These images on Flickr seem to get far more views than anything else I put up. So please do comment here…

  • Daily Star: Britain’s Most “Successful” Newspaper?

    I was unfortunate enough to catch a TV advert for the Daily Star last night. I think it must have been after the football which I saw a few minutes of. I can’t imagine another programme I might have been watching which the Daily Star might want to target me in. At least it wasn’t…

  • Alice

    As everyone looks forward to the new Tim Burton take on Alice in Wonderland, and I wonder whether I can be bothered to see it in 3D, the BFI has put its newly restored version of the first ever version of Alice on YouTube. Running at just under ten minutes, it’s a remarkable document dating…

  • Cashing Gold

    How badly do minor celebrities need the cash? Quite badly if the Dale Winton Cash My Gold ad is to be believed. It’s mercilessly ripped apart in Saturday’s Guardian Guide. Ironically, when I viewed this piece online, the Google ads below served three gold-cashing services up including Cash My Gold itself. £150 for a laptop…