The thing which amazes me most about people like Spike Lee is that they have frozen in time. While the US is getting ready to elect the first black President in it’s history - no, make that the history of the Western world - old Spike is trying to hammer a point home about Clint

And the ones that your mother gives you Don’t do anything at all (White Rabbit) Since last night I have the voice of Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) wailing around in my head. And that magnificent, dark, Spanish intro to White Rabbit. Being the info junkie that I am, I Wikipedia’d myself all over the place to find out

In a country where a man in an oversized Muppet suit presents a show for adults, maybe it’s too much to expect well-made television ads. And maybe I am spoiled, because Dutch ads are usually quite funny and original. But Italy is said to be the country of fashion and style, with a great cinematographic

Anyone who has ever seen even a slightly scary movie understands that music is responsible for a large part of your emotional reaction to it. A clip of children playing in the surf is nothing, it’s not even worth watching for longer than five seconds - until the Jaws theme is played under it. If

Once, long ago, I talked to a self-confessed movie lover from Germany and the first thing I asked him was what he thought about the ridiculous practice of overdubbing foreign movies with German dialogue, spoken by German voice actors. He thought that subtitles ’spoiled the imagery’ and my retort - that voice dubbing spoiled the

Russia Has Come up with its own version of Sex and the City Called, “The Baltic Age” with the subtext being “All Men Are Bastards” (not kidding people!). Not only is “The Baltic Age” a much more sexually arousing title, but is also the last time these women to the right were sexually active! Check

Most radio can usually be categorised as either ‘talk based’, for example LBC, or be ‘music based’, like Virgin Radio, but all that is set to change as the dawn of the Digital Era has spawned a new style of radio broadcasting - there is now a digital station that broadcasts nothing but bird song! It

It has been effectively for the last three weeks anyway. My Rover was over heating big time - on the A3, the temperature gauge was going off the scale, and the sounds of the engine were increased by the cacophony of the cooling fans working flat out. The garage diagnosed a blown head gasket, so

These little fellas have been the bane of my life during the summer months over the last few years: They may be microscopic and look innocuous, but the weeping sore eyes, the runny nose, the general fatigue and the flu like symptoms they induce in me make pollen spores my all time public enemy number one.

A momentous event has occurred on May the 14th 2008 if you believe in these things: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has released no less than 160 formerly classified files detailing their investigations of UFO’s (Unidentified Flying Objects) and the monitoring of extra-terrestrial activity. These are considered by some to be the UK equivalent of the