Ahhh…. Cardiff…
When I first moved to Cardiff in December 2001 and found myself at numerous friends’ Christmas house parties, I did note – as you do – that everybody’s music collection included plenty of CDs by the Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers – and even Catatonia, depending on how old the partygoers were. Via some magical osmosis, without actually sitting down and listening to those CDs, by 2006 I was quite familiar with a fai

How not to run an online competition
There are many ways to run a competition on Facebook. Perhaps the way that the Orange Film Club did, isn’t the best one. They posed a surprisingly difficult question (see a screengrab below the cut), but asked competition entrants to make their answers in the comments below. B

The Waters of Mars…
Well, that was definitely a very scary and chilling episode of Doctor Who meeting 28 Days Later. Either that or I’m just so proud of myself for not gibbering and hiding behind the sofa. My jumbled random thoughts after the jump… - An episode of Classic Who – with a small group of people being possessed by an unknown… - I loved how it emphasised the ‘continuity’ of time, the inevitability of fate, and

Progress on the portrayal of British-Chinese people in UK media!
Finally! Someone does an impression of a British-Chinese person without resorting to sticky tape or yellow-face make-up. On the other hand….

Ripping Planet of the Dead to shreds – for fun
I finally sat down to watch Planet of the Dead last week – and after 9 months of having no new Doctor Who, I was just so glad to see Doctor Who back that there may have been moistness in my eye. Even if it was a very slight story with not much new, and not much froth or fun either. However, I didn’t get the chance to rip the episode to shreds for fun, so I’m glad that the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have done it for me… (spotted via theta_g) Shame there’s not much happening on British TV on Sunday…