Andy Hallett, RIP

I met Andy a couple of times and he was absolutely adorable. What a lovely guy.
And only 33 years old, too. I don’t even have the words for how cruel that is…

Ooh la la!

My friend Gillen – aka my comics pimp – recently lent me a stack of Marvel stories which I’ve been ploughing my way through this week. I was just sitting here reading The Mighty Avengers: The Ultron Initiative by Brian Michael Bendis/Frank Cho when I spotted that they used a picture of the Eiffel Tower [...]

Life. TV. Etc.

I’ve just had a week off. This might not sound very exciting in the grand scheme of things, but it was. It was exciting because I’m a freelance journalist and that means I often find myself working every day of the week, so having seven straight days with nothing to do was just bliss. Of [...]

The Go-To Gal

I had a rather curious phone call from a nice chap at the BBC yesterday.
“Hello,” he said, after checking I was the correct Jayne Nelson, film journalist, who occasionally pops up on the news discussing random popular-cultural events.  “I was just wondering if you’d be willing to talk about Natasha Richardson. Should the worst happen, [...]

The World’s Greatest Head Massage And More

You know what it’s like. You’re looking at one thing on YouTube and you click on an intriguing link on one side of the page and before you know it you’ve watched 900 videos and you’re wondering where the hell your evening’s gone.
I am guilty as charged, but I do tend to watch the same [...]

Hello… Goodbye…

Right! I’m back. I’ve been writing, watching stuff, reading stuff, entertaining visitors and wondering why the very expensive moisturiser I just put on my face has turned it blue, but now I’m here and ready to write!
So, I saw Watchmen. At bloody last. I’ve only been waiting since I was 16, so it was a [...]