Month: June 2005

  • Sin City

    I caught this amazing telling of the Frank Miller graphic novels (i.e. “comics”) when I was away. Sin City – the name comes from “Basin City” according to a sign – is a dark and ugly place. It’s not Las Vegas despite what you might have thought. The story interweaves several different noirish tales from…

  • Lost on 4

    The fantastic Lost finished its US run last week. In the UK, Channel 4 have the rights, but so far there’s been no sign of it. So when’s it starting? (Scheduling it properly is going to be key to its success – so 4pm on a Sunday afternoon would not be the best time).

  • The Price of Lions’ Shirts

    In recent years there has been a spate of reports about price fixing replica football shirts. But now you can buy football shirts relatively cheaply if you shop around – with supermarkets and discount sportswear outlets in retail parks (As a sidenote, I was looking for a bar-bell weight at the weekend for reasons I…