The Dossing Times

6. Will Ferrell has launched a range of sun protection because he has always wanted to own a lotion company and has always hated cancer. It may be for charity, it still doesn’t make the man funny though.
5. Pat Kenny shares his highlights from his time on the Late Late Show here. His final turn [...]

The varying coalitions which have governed Israel, lobbyists for the cause of a Jewish State and defenders of the rights of Israeli people  among a number of flaws seem to entirely miss the irony of situations where they strive to protect fundamental rights yet play fast and loose with the idea of inalienability when it [...]

Find below the trailer for ‘Looking for Eric’, which debuted at Cannes in the past week. The movie follows the travails of a postman football fanatic who begins receiving life coaching from Eric Cantona, played funnily enough by Eric Cantona. The movie is directed by Ken Loach who last made a mark with ‘The Wind [...]

I had to have a serious reassessment of where my life is going recently, when I realised the new series of Flight of Conchords had been airing for 2 weeks on BBC 4, that I had known this, and that it had slipped my mind. Thankfully I caught a repeat of the second episode last [...]

Only because both Simon and Tuathal suggested Jeff Bridges when I told them the topic of this weeks Top 6 would be bridges do I include the actors picture; the list instead focuses on the structural objects used to span some sort of terrain or body of water. There is little point including the Golden [...]

So I haven’t seen ‘The Da Vinci Code’, mostly because it got awful reviews and after my initial fascination with the topic of Dan Browns novel, I had the same realisation that most people had; it was shamelessly exploitive writing - keeling over in well researched symbology and history and ultimately some headline grabbing revisions of parts of the Catholic [...]

As a fan of Sherlock Holmes I am looking forward to the new movie.

However after looking at the trailer and seeing them seem to be turning holmes into some sort of suave Action man. I am a bit dissappointed other the Irene Adler there was no really significant love interests in the books. But as Irene Adler [...]

I’m on my way back people from a hangover related meltdown, my physical and mental faculty has been at disastrously low levels. So bear with me. Meanwhile, 3 bits of movie related stuff that might interest you.
Eric Snider on the 10 year anniversary of ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’. He is defensive of the movie, [...]