Was complaining recently to my wife, brother-in-law, the milkman (etc) about the new Doctor Who's unimaginative use of time travel. The formula of the show is (basically) this: Our daring duo arrive in the past/future, encounter dangers and dilemmas, solve …

Back in our conker-playing, football sticker-collecting days, my primary schoolmates and I were in clear and enthusiastic agreement as to the funniest thing ever dreamed up by humankind: The campfire farting scene in Blazing Saddles. It had no serious …

And so it ends. After 18 days of squinting at shifting, swirling, pixellated blobs of colour and light on the lousy bbc.co.uk feed, the World Snooker Championship packs away its balls and white gloves …

The first DVD I ever saw was American Pie (or American Pie One as sequelitis compels us to call it). Though I found the film mildly amusing (in a simple, cock-in-pie sort of way), the shiny new format seemed fairly …

Recent talk of prizes and awards has put me to thinking. Though I come from a reasonably competitive family (competitive in the "I want to beat you at Scrabble" sense), we …

[Disclaimer: This week's Manky Toy offering involves a little bit of descriptive looseness. First of all, I bought not one but two toys. Second of all, they really aren't that manky…in fact they're rather good. …

Just a quick note to remind my fellow Limerickians that the 10th annual Unfringed festival will run (in various places/spaces around the city) from the 31st Jan (i.e. tomorrow) – 10th Feb.

Details of the various treats on offer – …

Following the lead of Copernicus and others who’ve posted itemised accounts of their Christmas booty haul, I thought I’d make mention of the bookish gifts kindly given to me by…er…myself o’er the festive season.

1) Foul Play: …

Following on from Tuesday's post (and its discussion of The Observer,'s "50 Lost Film Classics" list), I hereby offer my second "unduly neglected" 1980s gem for your consideration. Available in all decent DVD shops at knockdown prices, it'd …

While I generally avoid the plethora of lists and list-based TV shows that dominate the media during this festive season, I was rather impressed by Phillip French & Co's "50 Lost …

I'm sure this isn't news to many of you, but I've just heard confirmation that one of my very favourite sci-fi/horror works is to get a right royal Hollywood fucking…

Yes folks, Richard Matheson's seminal 1954 novel I am Legend …

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of the sight of those Da Vinci Code publicity shots where a grim-faced Tom Hanks sprints away from danger leading a bewildered/terrified (and occasionally grim-faced herself) Audrey Tautou by the …

Sometimes one ends up in one's local DVD shop determined, despite the slim pickings on offer, to rent a film no matter what. Such was the situation we found ourselves in last night as we scoured shelves barren of anything …

I've always been a fan of slow films…

I speak, of course, of the kind of long, captivating, hypnotic slowness that characterises many of the finest Sci-Fi / Western films of the 60s and 70s (a golden age of cinematic languor), …

Took advantage of the old HMV "3 DVDs for 30 Euro" offer on Saturday to pick up a few choice items that had been missing from my collection till now.

Item 1 was John Carpenter's Escape From New …