Demonically Yours…

Last night I felt really rough. I came home from work at midday, totally worn out after unpacking my belongings at my brand new desk in our brand new building which doesn’t even have an address yet because it’s so new (in fact, it’s so new that the toilets on my floor don’t work and [...]

All Hail Narnia!

I’m very tired tonight so I won’t write much – we moved offices today and I buggered up my back, but I won’t sulk about it here (I’ll whinge to my workmates tomorrow, poor sods). However, I just wanted to mention that I saw The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe a few days ago [...]

Radio Ga-Ga

I was talking to my friend Biddy on the phone earlier and I could hear her fiance banging and clumping in the background, obviously looking for something. Finally she said to him, “What is it?”
Exasperated, he replied: “I just don’t know how you can lose a f**king 4ft broadsword!”
Don’t ask.
It’s been over a week since [...]

Secret Squirrel

This is dumb. Earlier today, I laughed so hard that tea came out of my nose. The reason for my mirth?
I went up to a work colleague, slapped him on the back and said, “You’re doing well today, mate.” He looked chuffed and thanked me.
What he didn’t realise was that, when I slapped him, I [...]

Desperate Lives

This is so sad. I was just flicking channels on TV and came across a show about child prostitution. The reporter had travelled to Romania and was interviewing street kids, asking about them the things they’d done for money, the foreign sex tourists they’d been forced to “service”. It was gut-wrenching to watch.
However, what really [...]

Here Be Dragons (And Dinosaurs)

I’m suppressing an urge to jump up and down on my sofa and yell “Whoopee!”, kind of like Tom Cruise on Oprah a few months back when he declared his love for Katie Holmes. The reason? At lunchtime on Friday I was treated to an exclusive, extra-early preview of King Kong: 20 minutes of footage, [...]

Time Is On My Side

When we’re on deadline at Total Film – which, annoyingly enough, seems to be all too often – I always find myself dreaming of the days when we’re not on deadline at Total Film, because on those days I can get home by 7pm and watch some TV and have an early night and that’s [...]