The only way to settle this is with a dedicated thread on which decade had the best looking musicians, with hero worship goggles left at the door. From a cursory inspection, I don’t hold out much hope for the […]

It’s a fairly transparent euphemism for my by now well-documented love of drugs, prostitutes and the British Summertime.

Heard: Being liberated from having to write about favourite songs this year has meant lots of extra opportunities to catch up on new music, and it’s been a nice change of pace after all that navel gazing. A few […]

Can’t say that entirely surprises me. With half a decade’s worth of distance, it seems fairly clear that the cultural consequences of Covid and its associated lockdowns have been profound, both in terms of some […]

Everyone in football knew Erik Ten Hag was a dead man walking last Summer. The club extended his deal and didn’t let him go until the end of the year, a baffling decision which on its own cost them, by their own a […]

I completely agree.

Found it awful, pretty much from start to finish. In the very early stages I remember trying to get to grips with the likelihood that people we knew and loved might die, and that my parents might not make it […]

Add me to the list of Dyer fans, a rare contemporary journalist who can both think and write.

It’s not made up, but it seems thematically apt and it is quite funny.

I’m not really a Scorsese guy. I love The Color Of Money, Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, After Hours, Cape Fear and that’s about that. He hasn’t made a film I regard as great in decades and I think he reall […]

I mean – absolutely ridiculous, isn’t it? I feel like the Oscars getting it all wrong is a longstanding tradition to the point where I’d almost be a little miffed if they started getting it rig […]

The Oscars have always been and will always be a nonsense, but I have to admit that I prefer Dances With Wolves to Goodfellas and Ordinary People to Raging Bull. Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction is the one that […]

A couple of years ago I helped a dear friend through the deaths of both his parents in quick succession. As part of the process, I assisted him and his brother in cleaning out the family home. It was an […]

Absolutely loved Conclave. Sumptuous to look at, beautifully performed and you get to spend two hours watching a bunch of Vatican priests being messy bitches – what’s not to like. Would probably have been my […]

Did she sing along? 😉

There’s fast and then there’s fast!

Sad news, one of my absolute favourite actors. I first encountered Hackman when I was still a little kid, through viewings of the long forgotten witness protection on a train drama Narrow Margin and the still […]

I’ve been involved in the consultation on this. Speaking purely personally, I think the government is in danger of giving up the family silver to fund an arms race with an as yet undetermined final destination. A […]

Yep – that’s fair enough. It was more the bit at the end about the problem being his lack of support for Ukraine I was responding to. Seemed only fair to elucidate what the problem was in light of t […]

As I said above, there are two problems here. The first is that Roger Waters is merely a famous person who clearly spends a lot of time online. He has no actual expertise in this subject area, hence the weak […]