What Went Wrong With… An Over-Reliance On News & Trusting News Channels?
A side-effect of the coronavirus that nobody speaks about is an obsessive compulsion to watch the news. Since televisual entertainment is getting progressively worse thanks to social distancing, the...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Inception (2010)?
Inception is one of the most overrated films of all time, not just in the sci-fi and action genres, but all genres. After making a handful of memorable films (and a couple of classics) this is where...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Tenet?
Tenet is the latest film from the monumentally overrated writer-director Christopher Nolan. The plot centres around the prevention of World War III and more importantly time-inversion, hence the...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… The Remembrance Poppy (& The Mainstream Media)?
I don’t know what it’s like in Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, but seeing every celebrity on television here in the UK from mid-October onward wearing a Remembrance Poppy, is to put it lightly;...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Frankie Boyle?
It’s sad as fuck to see what’s become of ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s comedians. Just look at Ade Edmondson, Eddie Izzard, Noel Fielding, and Frankie Boyle, a bunch of old-arse dullards either moralising,...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… The Bowdlerisation Of British Television?
I can’t recall a time in which our terrestrial TV schedule was this poor, in fact there hasn’t been a worse time for British television. Take a look at your TV guide, it’s chock-full of shows about...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Zack Snyder’s Justice League aka Justice League: The...
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (also marketed as Justice League: The Snyder Cut) is yet another disappointing film from DC’s stable of comic book adaptations. Let’s face it: aside from the blip of...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Musicians With Synesthesia?
Synesthesia or Synaesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates another or several of your senses. When I was young, a member of my family...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021)?
I’ll confess I don’t remember much about The Hitman’s Bodyguard, other than hating it. Given that it contained at least two talented actors (Samuel L. Jackson and Gary Oldman) I expected it to make...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… In The Earth (2021)?
In The Earth is one of those boring, pretentious horror films that crop-up now and again, after which a slew of critics proceed to kiss it’s arse. Written and directed by darling of English cinema Ben...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… F9 aka F9: The Fast Saga aka Fast & Furious 9 (2021)?
Seemingly working their way through the function buttons of a keyboard, F9 is the latest film in the Fast & Furious franchise. The plot of this, the ninth movie, doesn’t need much of a synopsis as...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Twist (2021)? Review Number Two
Twist is arguably one of the worst films ever made, at least that’s what I thought when I legally watched the film back in January this year, after which I wrote a harmless review. After being slapped...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Covid Passports?
I was all for living a quiet life, being a small-time film critic and keeping shtum about politics, but since the literal arse-end of the entertainment industry are fucking with my reviews, I may as...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Doja Cat & Middle Class, Sell-Out Rappers?
Doja Cat is yet another reason why middle-class rappers shouldn’t be promoted and popularised, but since Hip-Hop is now firmly Hip-Pop (and proud of it) here she is; famous despite lacking in vocal or...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… 6ix9ine?
6ix9ine aka Daniel Hernandez, is the epitome of an overrated and overexposed rap star. His discography is shorter than his recent jail sentence and his songs are usually doltishly-titled (“Keke”) and...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Killer Mike, OutKast & Other Assorted Sellouts Like T.I.?
When shit gets real, celebrities get fake. The protests in response to the murder of George Floyd by white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, have led certain entertainers to weigh-in on the...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… And What Is Wrong With… Priti Patel?
Priti Patel is the latest in a long line of sellout minorities in politics. Being Britain’s first female, B.A.M.E. (Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic) Cabinet Minister could have been a noteworthy...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Censoring Entertainment During The Removal Of Racist’s...
After the racist murder of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, people everywhere, famous and non-famous, have been reassessing their role in society and how it may uphold...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… The Word “Woke”?
It can be quite interesting to see language evolve, but more often than not, all we witness is slang terms becoming mainstream; their meaning changed and in most cases, weakened (remember Ali G‘s use...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Spencer (2021)?
With a poster plastered with mostly five stars, Spencer has to be one of the most overrated films this year. It opens with a kind of disclaimer which tells the viewer that what follows is “a fable from...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Peeping Tom (1960)?
Peeping Tom, in case you don’t know, is a drama-thriller directed by Michael Powell starring Karlheinz Böhm and Anna Massey. The film which is about a voyeuristic serial killer who wields a film camera...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… And What Is Wrong With… Suella Braverman?
Did Margaret Thatcher or Theresa May do anything to benefit British women? Did Barack Obama do anything positive for black Americans? Most people would say no, and yet numerous wankers in the...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Weddings & Marriage?
Marriage is such an archaic concept. A wedding ceremony is closer to signing-over ownership than a declaration of love, with spouses being no more than chattel draped in overpriced finery. Like a game...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Love Actually (2003)?
Love Actually is now touted as “one of the greatest Christmas films of all time”, I assume, by the beige, easily-pleased titterati. When this flick was first released, there were loads of folk...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Compound Celebrity Super Couples & Power Couple...
Ben Affleck + Jennifer Lopez = Bennifer Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie = Brangelina Kim Kardashian + Kanye West = Kimye Tom Hiddleston + Taylor Swift = Hiddleswift Tom Cruise + Katie Holmes = TomKat This...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Three 6 Mafia?
The recent death of Gangsta Boo got me thinking about how much Three 6 Mafia changed over the years. I’ll admit that I was more of a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony fan but back in the mid-90’s, I heard Three 6’s...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… The Word “Whataboutism”?
I’d never heard of the word “whataboutism” before John Oliver mentioned it as he spoke at length about Donald Trump on his show Everything That Trump Did Wrong Last Week, sorry, Last Week Tonight. If...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… The Phrase “Like A Boss”?
I cannot stand the slang term “Like A Boss”, not only because it’s been used more than a choirboy in a Catholic church but also because of its confused and misplaced sentiment. If you’ve been living on...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… The Fast & Furious Franchise?
In 2001, a cheap and tacky B-movie titled The Fast And The Furious unleashed a filmic demon onto the world, a demon which over two decades later has yet to be vanquished and placed back in the...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Banksy?
I’ll admit that I don’t know much about graffiti, and I’m guessing, neither do most of you. When KRS One made the street art-themed song “Out For Fame” for instance, he mentioned “Cope2”, “Phase 2”,...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… World Trade Center (2006)?
The still, quiet, black and white opening titles of World Trade Center are quite fitting for the movie that follows. This is a very unnecessary and boring flick; a dull Drama about an event that was...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Treating Antisemitism With Greater Importance Than...
My boss is a slave driver. I’m not his slave you know! Yeah, you tell him. My boss is a fascist, he’s like a Nazi. Don’t even. Likening anything to the Nazis is Antisemitism! My friend told me a joke...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With… Fake Healthy Food?
It’s a stereotype that Brits like bland food but it’s generally not true (fish and chips is mouthwatering for instance). If what’s appearing on our supermarket shelves is anything to go by however,...
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