From the monthly archives:

May 2005

‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ Is Top Movie

by Stuart Heritage

The surprisingly not bad Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (books/DVDs) movie opened as the top-grossing movie in America and Canada this weekend, taking more than $21 million. Not bad for an idea a drunk bloke had in a field. Originally, news that the Douglas Adams (books) novel would be turned into a Disney movie had [...]

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Swingers on UK DVD. Now, that is money!

by Chris Laverty

To anyone of the right age and with the right drink in their hand, Swingers (DVD) was just about the coolest movie on the planet for a couple of years. The perfect antidote to any of your strung out friends hoovering up pills and vomiting over their suede shoes every evening: Swingers was about Ratpack [...]

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Justin Timberlake To Enter Magical Fairyland

by C J Davies

Pube-headed professional white boy Justin Timberlake (CDs) is all signed up to join his special ladyfriend Cameron Diaz (DVDs) in Dreamwork’s upcoming Shrek 3. The movie – aside from having a title which is a stunning leap of the imagination – will feature Timbo as Artie, the ‘rebellious nephew of Prince Harold.’ All sorts of [...]

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Coldplay Are This Week’s New Beatles

by Stuart Heritage

Another day, another band as big as The Beatles (CDs). Kind of… The American Billboard singles chart is now is such a state of disrepair that if hecklerspray recorded the noise of a goat in a raincoat on the end of a jetty at midnight being mocked by a group of farting butlers, we’d be [...]

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‘Britain’s Most Watched TV’ – Britain’s Best TV?

by Stuart Heritage

Wagon Wheels have got smaller, say the idiots, and so have Cadbury’s Creme Eggs. But the idiots are wrong. They didn’t get smaller, your hands got bigger. The same people always moan on about the ‘golden age’ of television. TV was so much better in the past. No, again: your brains were tiny in the [...]

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The Best British Soap Award 2005

by Stuart Heritage

It’s the last day of looking at the nominees for the British Soap Awards, from hecklerspray and Betfair.com. We’ve been saving the most important award until last – the Best British Soap. Everyone has their favourite soap. Northerners like Coronation Street, southerners prefer Eastenders. Farmers like Emmerdale. Doctors like Doctors. Young blonde indenti-teens like Hollyoaks. [...]

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Tony Christie’s 7-week UK chart run hinges on brackets

by 586 MEDIA

Veteran pop-crooner Tony Christie has bagged a seventh week on the top of the UK singles chart with ‘(Is This The Way To) Amarillo’, so the countdown now begins to see if the single will extend its run to surpass the Bryan Adams slushfest ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’, which managed a [...]

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Fat Matt Le Blanc Ate All The Pies

by C J Davies

One of the most spectacular things about Friends (DVDs) spin-off Joey – apart from how amazingly unfunny it all is – is the ever-increasing girth of leading man Matt Le Blanc (DVDs). Seriously – just watch the boy go. He must pile on at least ten pounds an episode (and in a world where justice [...]

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Darkness Lead Singer To Subject World To Solo Album

by C J Davies

Think back a moment, if you will, to the last seriously terrifying nightmare you had. What exactly did it entail? Being chased across a lake of petrol by a grinning madman with a cigarette lighter? Fighting off legions of red-eyed spider-wasps – the horrifying result of genetic splicing – as they swarm over the planet? [...]

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‘Land Of The Dead’ Shuffles Ever Nearer

by C J Davies

Everyone’s making zombie films these days. From Paul W. Anderson’s cack-awful Resident Evil (DVD) to Simon Pegg’s (DVDs) actually-quite-wonderful Shaun Of The Dead (DVD), it would seem that the world and his wife are picking up a camera and getting in on the flesh-eating action. Lest we forget, then, the bearded grandaddy of them all: [...]

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