Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts Director: Steven Soderbergh Genre: Thriller Cert: 12 Released: 2001 We love throwing out the phrase “ensemble cast”. It gives you this great feeling of value for money if you go and see a movie with an ensemble cast. It normally means that you will […]
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles Dutton Director: David Koepp Genre: Thriller Cert: 15 Released: 2004 If, after watching “Secret Window”, someone asked you to offer a guess as to the writer of the novel the movie is based on, you would be hard pressed not to hazard a guess at […]
Tub thumping It never ceases to amaze me how the English media whip themselves in to an unbearable frenzy of tub thumping and misplaced optimism when England have a big match on the horizon. But in this case, the hype nearly lived up to the reality. England’s ninety minutes against France was not a display […]
Last chance Well if this doesn’t work, nothing will. Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has finally got his man. Whether that man was his first choice or not is something of a moot point. The day after Levy had apparently sounded out Claudio “my heart belongs to Valencia” Ranieri about the vacant managers job at White […]
In the frame After the well-thought out (sarcasm), yet utterly deserved sacking of Glenn Hoddle, Spurs are once again on the hunt for a new manager. David Pleat filled the gap rather dismally for eight months and after the appointment of Frank Arnesen as sporting director, and the shipping out of Pleat, Spurs fans are […]
Premiership season review How wrong did I get my Premiership preview this season? Read on… Arsenal Predicted: 3 / Actual: 1 What I said: No money for players…Wenger must have thought about walking away…too many bit-part under-achievers in the squad…Stepanovs and Cygan need to start shining…how will the back four react to Lehmann? What happened?: […]
Album Title: Honkin’ On Bobo Artist: Aerosmith Year: 2004 Running Time: 43m 55s Track listing: 1 Roadrunner; 2 Shame, Shame, Shame; 3 Eyesight to the Blind; 4 Baby, Please Don’t Go; 5 Never Loved a Girl; 6 Back Back Train; 7 You Gotta Move; 8 The Grind; 9 I’m Ready; 10 Temperature; 11 Stop Messin’ […]
Starring: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland Director: Ronny Yu Genre: Horror Cert: 18 Released: 2003 There’s nothing like a good slasher movie. And indeed, not to put too fine a point on it, this is nothing like a good slasher movie. Ok, I’ve jumped ahead of myself here. I don’t […]
Hard job As jobs go, there are none more tiresome and predictable than being a Spurs fan. And yes, it is a job. I have no choice you see. It’s an emotional necessity for me to follow this team in and out of the abyss, year after year. A never-ending juggernaut of disappointment and mediocrity. […]
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris Director: Sofia Coppola Genre: Drama Cert: 15 Released: 2003 In recent years I can’t recall a movie that has been talked about so little prior to release and so much afterwards, with perhaps the exception of “The Sixth Sense”. Sofia Coppola, who has struggled to recover […]
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