Month: August 2025

For all the noise, the online commentary, and the social media wailing from all sides, if you really want to know what is going on, then you can usually look to the bookmakers for guidance. From major election results to the latest trends, bookies tend to get it right a

It’s Monday, another week looms, but it’s OK, the memes are here to make you laugh, smile or blow a snort of air through your nose. To be fair, some of the memes today are pretty funny. I like the Michael J Fox one the best. We’re sorry about the

At first, Reality is Not Enough doesn’t sound that interesting, but when I say it’s a documentary about Irvine Wesh. Well, that changes everything. Welsh is best known for writing a small British book called Trainspotting. It’s a book about the popular pastime of writing down the train numbers of

The shifting of the Overton Window? A sociological correction? Something is happening out there in the real world, and it is bleeding through into the world of movies and entertainment. Whatever happened to politics being downstream of culture? In another sign of a general mood swing, Disney and Lucasfilm have

Is this it? Is the age of the screen idol finally over? For years, Tom Cruise had been the last man standing, a remaining movie star and matinee idol pushing back against the wave of IP-based content. So if he can’t get a movie made with his own star power,