I vowed to never, ever start a writing with “Another Xxxxxx has come and gone”, but when another holiday trip has come and gone, it’s hard to dodge the spectre (british spelling!) of The Expected. I can finally add another stupid thing to the list of stupid things I’ve done, and include “Sabotaging my own […]

I’ll get it out of the way: 300 is good. Not great, but really good. I wanted to like it more than I did, but its comic-book dialogue really stands out in the big screen. I don’t mean that in a good way, either: the phrase “Give them nothing! But take from them everything!” is cool […]