Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best Christmas film is, I cite the same handful of movies as my personal picks. Obvious ones: the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street or Capra’s universally loved It’s a Wonderful
So, a few things I’m lumping together here. But all around the theme of Christmastime. In truth it has all become a bit of a pantomime, as we’ll observe. It even features the pantomime villain – in the form of
So, a quick follow on from the post on the Bondi beach terror attack. The
Islamist gunmen opening fire on exclusively Jewish targets on a Sydney beach on the first
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A strange object is in our Solar System and is being closely observed. You’ve probably heard about it. It’d be astonishing if
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to guess probably not. But the fact that this question is even
It was in March 2003 that Britain joined the United States in the illegal invasion of Iraq. As is by now commonly
Soundgarden has just been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. A new album, featuring Chris Cornell’s final work with
The recent War of the Worlds movie was a total flop and has been trashed by pretty much everyone. Some have called
In December 2021 – just a few weeks before the Russian military incursion into Ukraine – something incredibly interesting happened. A United Nations resolution was presented, its purpose being to condemn Nazism or the ‘glorification of Nazism’. Only two countries voted AGAINST the resolution. Guess which ones? It was the
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“Every person has two homelands,” the French archaeologist Andre Parrot once commented; “His own and Syria”. T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), who spent a great deal of time exploring Syria, wrote specifically of Palmyra; “Nothing in this scorching, desolate land could be so refreshing”. It might also have been Lawrence who
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A first century BC villa on the fringes of Rome is likely to be destroyed by a modern housing development. And not just a first century villa, but the villa believed to have belonged to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus; the historical character immortalised by actor Stephen Boyd in the 1959
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Instead of doing the usual thing this Halloween, like watching
I happened to notice that a week or so ago
The mass shooting in Las Vegas has prompted all the
A curious disc-like object pouring smoke and hovering over buildings
Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
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It is 20 years since the first broadcast of the
‘Rewatch’ seems like an inadequate word; I’ve probably watched this
There are few, if any, MCU movies that I dislike.
This latest podcast, featuring my friend Mumra 2K of HeWhoDares.com,
Very few people would deny that Darth Vader is one
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February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
Nirvana legend Krist Novoselic has entered into the controversy over
Yep, another of those ’20 year anniversary’ posts that I’ve
Being something of a social outcast and regular grouch, it
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t