The Daily Scoundrel

Zero 7 must be pretty annoyed by the majority’s reaction to their new record, Yeah Ghost.  Released last week to a collection of relatively decent reviews, there’s a thread running through both the critical and consumer commentary.  Zero 7 has always been the baby of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker, and there’s no change to [...]

I’ve a tinny of Double Dutch on the  go for this.  Which should be quite apt when writing about football hooliganism flick The Firm – at least, it would be if it were one of those inexplicably small 80s lager cans that crops up so frequently in the movie.  Except, really, it’d probably be close [...]

Bloody Hell, where to start with Lars von Trier’s Antichrist? It is perhaps the most intense, unrelenting piece of film making since Gasper Noe’s Irreversible, which is quite a feat. What the majority of film goers might find especially difficult about Antichrist is that it does not fall easily within a particular genre, at no [...]

Those familiar with my writings on videogames could be aware of my slight obsession with Russian oddball game Pathologic.  It’s a particularly twisted action-RPG set in a fictitious, early 20th Century Russian town, with the player battling a terrifying plague that’s killing the townsfolk in the thousands per day.  I nagged J.D. to play it [...]

District 9’s been coming under a bit of flack lately for its alleged racism towards the Nigerian populace of its unspecified-time-in-the-future Johannesburg.  The lady and I plodded along to see it earlier today, and there’s certainly a talking point there.  It’s relevant, though superceded by the utter lunacy of the rest of the film.  Neill [...]