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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Don’t make me Ang Lee

I've been reliably informed by the ubiquitous posters on double decker buses that the new movie based on Marvel Comics' The Incredible Hulk will be hitting cinemas next week. Starring Ed Norton, Liv Tyler & Tim Roth - and helmed by the French action movie director Louis Leterrier - it promises to restart a potentially lucrative franchise for the comic publisher-turned-film studio and seems to be a far cry from Ang Lee's adjectiveless offering from five years' ago.I must admit, when I first heard that a recast and rebooted Hulk film was in production my initial reaction was an imperceptible [...]

Go ahead punk, make my Birthday…

Clint Eastwood, the undisputed coolest man in cinema history and my favoutite movie icon ever, turned 78 yesterday. For what it's worth, I'd just like to wish him a belated Happy Birthday and thank him for producing a body of work that continues to inspire me.I think I'll be wathing The Outlaw Josey Wales this week. It won't be the first time.

Johansson, Illinois

My significantly better half Clare (Bless 'er) bought me Scarlett Johansson's new album of Tom Waits' covers this week, Anywhere I Lay My Head. Now, I'm a bit of a unrepentantly obsessive Tom Waits fan (you noticed?), so when I first heard about this project I was more than a wee bit sniffy. Over the years, I've heard many, many, many cover versions of songs by the Great Voice of Gravel. A few have been sublime (Springsteen's Jersey Girl and T. Bone Burnett's Time spring to mind), most have been all right-ish to goddamn mediocre (The Ramones I Don't Wanna [...]