Category Archives: Opinion

An Open Letter to Steven Spielberg

Hi Steven, Can you please stop direct­ing films that have Ger­man sol­diers in them. It is a prob­lem with the baby boomer gen­er­a­tion but any­one born post 1960 just doesn’t care about them. You on the other hand, appear to have a bizarre fas­ci­na­tion, some might say a fetish with our grey uni­formed Deutsche chums.

ITV dredges up Titanic for show no one wanted

And lo’ ITV has decided that what the peo­ple want is more period drama bol­locks. Not con­tent with Down­ton Abbey and its incred­i­ble propen­sity for expo­si­tion [“Oh golly, I can’t be upstairs, I’m a ser­vant and I can’t be on this floor. — Yes, you bet­ter get back down before his Lord­ship finds out.”] they

Stardash Review

I’m pretty sure that Orange Pixel, the mak­ers of Star­dash, watched the Youtube videos of a game called Ass­hole Mario (see here), a home­brew ver­sion of the Nin­tendo clas­sic with an insane amount of cheap tricks and nigh on impos­si­ble dif­fi­culty. Star­dash is tough, real tough but the stages are no longer than 35 sec­onds

True Grit Yawnfest

Months late to the party here’s my take on True Grit, the multi-nominated west­ern that is the same as every other west­ern ever released. Oh my days, why is every­thing so brown and arid in all these films. It’s always so fuck­ing brown. You know there’s a point where the girl is try­ing to con­vince

Questions to ask a Christian

Why are peo­ple men­tal? Or, more to the point, why are peo­ple Chris­tians? Obvi­ously you can sub­sti­tute Chris­tians with any other reli­gion you like but let’s stick with Chris­tian­ity ‘cos they’re def­i­nitely the most men­tal of all. There are so many ways to attack the belief sys­tem of Chris­tian­ity it would be almost wrong if