Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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Movie Haiku: My Top 100 Films of the Decade (Part 2 of 4)

Here’s my second batch of favourite films of the last decade in haiku-form, which covers number 75 through to 51. For 100 through to 76 scroll up or go here. More to come… _____________________________________________________ 75. Drag Me To Hell (dir. Sam Raimi, 2009) Raimi’s zeitgeist surf As bank clerk is damned Due to Evil Debt 74. The Bourne Identity (dir. Doug Liman, 2002) New ‘JB’ in town It’s those initials again! Bond and Bauer – meet Bourne 73. Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck, 2008) Those Affleck brothers Adapt Boston-set thriller (Look out for Omar!) […]

Movie Haiku: My Top 100 Films of the Decade (Part 1 of 4)

What follows is the first part of the hideously overdue rundown of my Top 100 favourite films of the last decade. Not a Top 20, not a Top 50 but a Top 100. You can see why I’m doing this in installments. Most lists like this are published in late-December or early-January, but most lists like this don’t contain lovingly hand-crafted haiku summaries. You get what you wait for. This delay has also given me the chance to catch up with films released in 2009 that I didn’t manage to catch last year. That helps to explain why some films [...]

Pancake Daze

The historical roots of Pancake Day (contains shameless falsifications)

The Minister of Information Returns

Gil Scott-Heron's new album I'm New Here has been on heavy rotation since I bought it earlier in the week. It's an absolute blinder, real return-to-form stuff that I heartily and unequivocally recommend. If you fancy listening to it yourself, an official streamed version from Scott-Heron's new label, XL Recordings, is available online. Here it is: (If the above widget doesn't appear on your browser, then you can also try here) If you like it, then please do the decent thing and go out and buy it. Streamed albums - official or otherwise - are all well and good, but [...]

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