I’m with you there, I really enjoyed that book, and One Hit Wonderland as well.

I mean, there clearly is something wrong with me, and the therapists I’ve met haven’t really been able to give me any long term help, but all I remember of Salo was that it was vicious, cruel and sadistic movie, where those in positions of power made the lives of their victims unbearable, so if that’s not a horror…

Arthur Smith. It feels like he’s been around forever, and I first saw him on tv in the 90s, though I’d never seen him live until now, and won’t be making that mistake again.

From what I’ve heard there are a lot of comedians doing AI themed sets up at the Edinburgh Festival this year and not many of them are any good.…

I recently saw a fairly well known British comedian do a stand up show which was essentially “I told Chat GPT to write a joke about...” before then reading out whatever it had come up with. It was the worst comedy set I’ve seen in my life, but it was still more interesting and better written than the above piece about…

About ten years ago I decided to check out films which I’d avoided because I’d heard they were so disturbing, including Salo, Eden Lake, I Saw The Devil and Last House and a few others on this list, and it basically broke my brain. After Salo I couldn’t watch one second more of such films and it put me off…

I saw Rose do an hour of stand up at a pub venue called The Bill Murray* about a month ago and she was superb, it was clearly a work in progress but it was still something I loved a hell of a lot. Then I went to see fellow NZ comedian Brynley Stent at the Soho Theatre on Friday and Matafeo was sat in the row behind…

I saw that when it came out on video in the eighties and loved it to pieces, but at least in the UK the cover was something of a spoiler.

People used to ask me if I was ever going to “grow up and have children”, but now they’re more like “Thank god that depressed suicidal guy* doesn’t have children”.


*About twice a year, then I get therapy or up my medication (though rarely both as the NHS is absolutely fucked) and I’m fine for six months or so.

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I saw the first film last night and enjoyed it for what it was, but there’s absolutely no need for a second film at all.

Thanks for that, I didn’t realise it had such a low budget, but like you say, if it’s able to hover around the 5th or 6th place for a fair while it should hopefully make some money, and it is a film I do want to see, thanks to some reviews by friends.

So is Mutant Mayhem being considered a flop? I don’t know the budget / advertising campaign details but I’ve seen the trailer a lot in the UK, and so that it’s opened fourth with under $30 million doesn’t look good, unless it turns out have to long legs and stays in the top ten for a fair old while.

That’s a fascinating but also almost insanely fucked up, most of the time I feel a certain amount of guilt that now I’m in the my late forties I’ve pretty much lost touch with 99% of modern music (though their are exceptions like the New Zealand comedian / singer Paul Williams, and I thought Wet Leg’s debut was great)…

This sort of thing happens occasionally in the UK but it got really out of hand at a festival in 2000 where people were throwing shoes, bottles of piss, bags of meat and someone’s wheel chair at pop duo Daphne and Celeste. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/29/daphne-and-celeste-you-and-i-alone

The article’s…

It’s a sign of how awful the site is now that there’s been no review when so many others have posted very positive ones.

I absolutely loved it too, it felt like the perfect way to bring everything to a close.

I’m really glad Barbie’s doing well and can’t wait to see it, but I hope the success of Oppenheimer means it leads to the release of Oppenheimer dolls, if only so I can make a stop-motion movie which completely changes how Jonathan Hickman’s Manhattan Projects ended.

(This isn’t some weird eight year grudge, btw, I…

I reckon he could if he wanted to - https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/yacht/2023-invictus-tt460-8182915/ ;)

But I get your point, he’s well off and shouldn’t have to worry about money if he’s careful with his investments.

And then watch the NZ series of Taskmaster Guy Montgomery was in, I really enjoy the UK original, but that second season of the New Zealand show was sublime.

Also, I’ve recently rediscovered the work of Shaun Micallef, I’m not a huge Mad As Hell fan but Newstopia and The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) are sublime.

I love Paul King’s films so much, and not just the two sublime Paddington films but also Bunny And The Bull, as well as the tv he’s directed like Garth Mareghi’s Dark Place and The Mighty Boosh (and uh, fully believe he was blackmailed in to making Come Fly With Me? Does that sound reasonable? Let’s pretend it does)…

True, but if you add in adverts, voice overs in animated movies, supporting roles in live action films, writing an autobiography, guesting on chat shows, appearing in music videos (and not just once) along with directing some episodes, and well, if he wasn’t pulling in over a million after taxes, etc, he needed a new…