So, let’s start by stating the obvious: This version of Alice in Wonderland is not particularly suitable for children. It’s a 1976 adaptation that’s loosely based on the classic novel. If you’re familiar with some old adult films, you may notice this movie starts like […]
I know candy, sugar, junk food, all of the above are all bad for us. But one still can’t help but reminisce in the good ol’ days before sugar was bad for us and candy was still used as an acceptable reward. Here’s a list […]
On March 25, 2014, hot on the heels of its acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, the social-networking behemoth that is Facebook announced that it would be purchasing the VR headset company, Oculus VR – famous for the Oculus Rift gaming device, which was originally funded […]
The British like to live in different countries, principally to escape our less than impressive weather. But when others choose to come to the UK (for reasons other than the weather), we often complain hypocritically that they don’t learn the language. Hypocritically, because there are […]
Years ago, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a fine and unique antidote for all the humorless sci-fi futurism of Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in A Strange Land, Arthur C. Clarke’s The Garden of Rama, Frank Herbert’s Dune and the awful Michael Moorcock that so […]
Ever since Trainspotting, I’ve thought the bar on insanity in film could never be raised. Then I saw Filth, a Scottish flick taken from the very same mind that wrote Trainspotting the novel, the mad Irvine Welsh (this one’s originally a novel as well). Directed […]
I’m not going to pretend that I don’t get tingles every time I think about the new season of Game of Thrones. Spring is coming ladies and gents and so are some awesome new TV shows. Are you ready? Game of Thrones (HBO) Premieres: Sunday, […]
There’s a new hookup app in town, 3nder, and, hey, it’s for threesomes! Ok, I have to say this. I can’t keep up with all the new apps coming out. They’re coming out much too quickly and I can hardly test them all. On one […]
Namco: Dark Souls 2 – Available for XBox360, PS3, P.C. – US$65 Namco’s Dark Souls earned its crust by being a dark, complex, difficult game. Well, ‘difficult’ is actually the wrong word. Dark Souls is a relentless, challenging macrocosm of a game that will well and […]
The United States and any country following its shoddy, industrial culinary practices are finding themselves more and more filled to the brim with overweight people. Politics has called this relatively new phenomenon in our species an epidemic, and along with that definition, cultural narrative has […]
This week saw the nomakeupselfie nominations become a viral phenomenon, and nearly GBP 2m was raised for breast cancer charities. If you’ve missed the whole saga, woman were nominated by their friends to take a selfie without any make up on, and then upload it […]
People are insane. We know that. They got all kinds of crazy theories about the missing MH370 flight. You’d think the news’d take it easy though… Don Lemon on CNN was pretty entertaining. And Bill Hemmer on Fox! CNN used a fake, toy plane for […]
Do you think you have what it takes to survive the cut-and-thrust of a magazine office? Can you handle the pressure of writing exceptional, compelling copy on demand on a day-to-day basis? Then maybe you’re just the kind of person we’re looking for here at […]
Thanks to the development of LED lamp technology, the lowly light bulb is doing more than turning on and off. Looking into the not-so-distant-future the lamp will likely be the centerpiece of an environment created with a view toward improving one’s health, regulating mood and […]
Above: Wes Anderson. Image by s_bukley / Shutterstock.com I finally got a chance to see The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s new zany, whimsical, and charmingly tragic picture, and it was absolutely gorgeous. My first thought upon leaving the theater was, “Did all that just happen?” […]
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, or so they say. I rather suspect that this phrase was coined by apple farmers back in the Seventies, worried about fighting off competition from exotic fruits such as pineapples and mango. Well, never mind apples – […]
Thanks all you news sites for your continued coverage of other news sites really mucking up this story. What tragic fun! 1 – It fell into a black hole! Because that is completely and utterly possible!? 2 -There was another plane in the mix! 3 […]
Above: Michele Bachmann. Image by Cheryl Casey / Shutterstock.com You can tell when politicians lie; their lips move. Turns out, that’s a pretty good indicator that they’re spouting prime crapola too… Φ Nancy, Nancy, Nancy… you cold bitch you. Telling Wolf Blitzer and the American public […]
Above: Mark Zuckerberg. Image by FLD / Shutterstock.com “It’s the smart move,” Michael Corleone says after he’s unmasked the traitor Tessio in The Godfather. “If I was in his shoes, I would’ve done the same thing.” In a move that will surely surprise no one who […]
Television has left me a sniveling supplicant of my former self, an expectation-riddled reviewer waiting aside the monolithic media complex for new pellets of TV joy. Or, put more plainly, I was super pumped that the programming schedule was back to normal post Olympics, but […]
