Manchester Like...

Their Tikka BLOOD red

WTF of The Irish?

Jamaicans want the sensation of drinking Celtic moss? Really?

My Top Tip

Boom Ting!

My New Looks For Summer

"Homeboy"

"Out With The Lads"

"Red Hot Romeo"

"Petrified Knitwear" 

My sincere thanks to Sexy People

Back In The Habit

Whoopi what took you so long?

Bye Bye License Fee!!

 

Snoop Dogg live in your living room!! AKA the only entertainment I'll ever need...

Free live streaming by Ustream

This One's For My Girlfriend

Give either of us a ring if you want it yeh?

Pretty Rad

Was randomly on this skating blog Rad Collector and found this:

Not been into skating since the 90's but still, just goes to show it's always good to keep one eye on those Vans-wearing tykes. 

Big Looks Aplenty

Leo Sloley as "Wayne" and Fabian Macpherson as "Himself"

REVIEW: Rachel Getting Married

So let me tell you, in the history of movie making there has there ever been a film so criminally mis-marketed (err?) as Rachel Getting Married?

Watching it is an astounding, revelatory experience. Jonathan Demme (Silence of The Lambs, Philadelphia) thanks no doubt to the inspired writing of Jenny Lumet shuns the fast cuts and quickfire gag-rate of most American comedies. Instead opting for a lucid, conversational almost improvised feel. 

AND yet the UK poster campaign/press hinted at a film wholly unrecognisable from the actual product. Hathaway is superb, but this a story about the complexities of extended families, reunions and memories. It is not My Best Friend's Wedding, or My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both films which cover similar themes and took many more millions at the box office. MBFW ($127M) , MBFGW ($241M). That's right TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR HELLENIC MATRIMONY!! 

Sony (who also were behind MBFW) should've upped their game and sold this film as exactly what it was! A brilliant, brilliant film far better than every other film on this list and worth much more than the $12.7M it grossed in the US.

This one really came at me from nowhere and hit me for six. Seek it out and surprise yourself. I bawled my eyes out watching it on the flight back from NY. In case you've never cried on a plane before. It's embarrassing...really embarrassing.  

Rachel Getting Married 10/10

Now That's What I Call

A Yorkshire Pudding

Day In The Life Of A:

So Turns Out That Girl From Twilight IS Actually Hot

In my opinion there are two great mysteries left in the cinematic universe. Firstly which lunatic still thinks that Regions on DVDs make sense/are relevant (stop the madness, fascists!!!!). The second is the sometime inexplicable gap between UK and US release dates. (Perhaps these two mysteries are connected, but I'm far too scared that if I find out the truth my world might collapse through all sense of the unknown being instantly removed from my life. It would be Father Christmas all over again). Take a film like Synecdoche New York. Kaufman's autobiographical cinematic wigfest, came out six months ago in NY but is only just surfacing in Blighty...Who knows why? The great distribution gods in the sky decide, and that's it. End of.

Don't discuss, or debate. Just accept. I said ACCEPT.

Aaaaaanyways because of all of the above. Last night (in NY) I was able to see a film which the residents of Albion probably won't see for at least 47 months. Ya boo sucks to you.

Adventureland is a charming coming of age yarn (as if there were any other genre I enthuse about). It's a fine return to form for Superbad director Greg Mottola who has produced a film rich in humour and warmth in equal measure. All the gags of Superbad/Knocked Up but with the thoughtful pace and  maturity of Garden State/Juno. A new benchmark as far as this new era of Apatow-ites goes. This is a ripe and robust film that will ultimately rise above it's equivalents.

Start the countdown England..there's a big treat looming on the horizon. You just don't know it yet.

                       

Shermanator

I Love To See A Good Man Smiling

He seems such a decent guy doesn't he?

I'm standing here with my heart in my mouth, fingers crossed, saying over and over: don't fuck this up don't fuck this up don't fuck this up. Newcastle's golden boy has come home to roost (temporarily) . Sheeeeeeeeeeeeaaarrrreeerrrrrr.

Chris Sutton