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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From Variety:Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in early discussions to collaborate on a remake of Chan Wook-Park's Oldboy. DreamWorks is in the process of securing the remake rights, and the new pic will be distributed by Universal.

Southland Tales

The other day I watched Richard (Donnie Darko) Kelly's sci-fi slapstick satire Southland Tales. The reason why I watched it was because I'd recently bought it on DVD, and the reason why I'd recently bought it on DVD was because the Asda in Perry Barr were selling it for £3. In the days, weeks and months ahead this process may determine the future course and contents of my DVD collection.Southland Tales received what you might call a fairly mixed critical response. The Guardian said it was "frustrating and finally rather pointless" while The Independent raised the stakes and declared it [...]

The Day of Reckoning

"I have this feeling that whoever's elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumf***s that got you in there, and this little screen comes down... and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.... And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president:"'Any questions?'"'Er, just what my agenda is...'"- Bill Hicks, 1961-1994

Once more unto the breach, dear friends…

I've been trying my best not to say any more about the cataclysmic faecal maelstrom that is the Ross-Brand-Sachs scandal. Too much had been said about it already, and by adding to the blogosphere's already hefty wordload on the subject I'm probably helping to validate a Daily Mail campaign and prolong the lifespan of a particularly nasty bout of mass hysteria. Only to a fairly imperceptible degree, of course, but it all adds up in the end. This one's like a bothersome dental abscess, though. I know I shouldn't, but I just can't leave the bastard alone. Truth be told, [...]

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