[Movie Review] Beyond the Mat

Starring: Mick Foley, Jake Roberts, Terry Funk, Paul Heyman, Vince McMahon Director: Barry W Blaustein Genre: Documentary Cert: 15 Released: 1999 It’s a directorial debut for acclaimed writer Barry Blaustein (“Saturday Night Live”, “Coming to America”, “Boomerang”, “The Nutty Professor”), and it’s a subject matter close to his heart – professional wrestling. Blaustein tells it […]

Style ain’t enough

The Rightful Place So ENIC have arrived, with chief executive and life-long Spurs fan, Daniel Levy, eager to return the club to it’s ‘rightful’ place. Where is that? Well it should probably be as a fairly stylish, European place-challenging, cup run-specialist side. The problem is that while this was a unique niche years ago, modern […]

[Movie Review] Any Given Sunday

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine Director: Oliver Stone Genre: Drama Cert: 15 Released: 1999 I suppose watching an American Football movie for most of us Europeans is akin to your average American Confederate sitting back with a bag of popcorn and enjoying “When Saturday […]

The Charlton syndrome

Style The buzz word on the lips of all Spurs fans since the dawn of time (well since around 1995), is ‘style’. We only really started to talk about it when we stopped seeing it. The older generation will harp on about the style-laden side of the 60s, while those of my generation will reminisce […]

The cream and the crap

What’s another year? An end of year celebration would not be complete without the customary ‘awards ceremony’. Goddle knows it’s been a fairly pathetic year for Spurs but there is more to football than Spurs thankfully, so I’ll have something slightly upbeat to write about in this issue. Premiership Awards 2000 Team of the year […]

[Movie Review] Hollow Man

Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, William Devane Director: Paul Verhoeven Genre: Sci-Fi Cert: 15 Released: 1999 The box office re-immergence of Kevin Bacon is a welcome one for those of us who fondly recall his success of the eighties and early ninties. “Stir of Echoes” put him firmly back on the […]

Improvement or improvisation

Fortress The White Hart Lane fortress continued to evolve this weekend as Mighty Spurs (sic) recorded a pretty good victory over an inconsistent Liverpool side whose title aspirations look to be disappearing as rapidly as Brad Friedel’s hairline (and career). The line ups Tottenham lined up as below Sullivan Perry Young Thelwell Carr Clemence Anderton […]

[Movie Review] Memento

Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Toblowsky Director: Christopher Nolan Genre: Drama Cert: 18 Released: 2000 Guy Pearce is now a far cry from being speedo wearing Mike, in the Australian TV soap, Neighbours where he spent 4 years until 1990. After huge success in “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” and “LA Confidential” […]