Finally, here be Monsters – or rather Wild Things. The trailer for Sir Spike of Jonze’s latest has now stumbled its way into the realm of the inter‘tweb… a full 9 years after the teaser for the film was attached to The Grinch. There seems to be a trend of late to release films amidst a backdrop of studio squabbles and backstabbery. Recently, there was talk of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen being shelved (after the fans waiting patiently for over a [...]

When it comes to entertainment, it was, of course, Homer Simpson who put it best when he said: “Barney’s movie had heart, but ‘Football in the Groin’ had a football in the groin”. In his own imitable, jaundiced, 4 fingered way, Homer J. summarised the way in which many of us understand comedy. Even the wittiest, most intelligent, most impeccably timed bon mot often pales in the humour stakes when compared to a man getting knocked unconscious by a pressurised [...]