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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The Breeders, Birmingham Academy, 13th April 2008

So here I am, and there I was - enjoying a sticky-floored Sunday evening at Birmingham's bijou Academy 2. I was there to see The Breeders and it was all thanks to my friend - macaroon chomping Friend-of-Garfield Jez Higgins - who generously gave me the ticket that he bought just seconds before he realised the gig clashed with his Wedding Anniversary. These things happen, and lucky for me they do. Thanks for the ticket, Jez and Nat. Hope you had a Happy Anniversary.I got to the venue fairly late as I'd spent most of the day recovering from the [...]

Orphanage in Bruges

Well, I didn't manage to catch the Jaws night at The Electric, but I did venture out to the picture palace twice in the last week.The Guillermo Del Toro produced, Juan Antonia Bayona helmed The Orphanage was rather good. More of a good old-fashioned ghost story than an out-and-out horror pic (despite one visceral scene that was a pure, popcorn-into-the-back-of-head-in-front shocker), it reminded me a bit of The Others. Haunting, atmospheric and melancholic-in-a-good-way, but - in my humble opinion - not really deserving the comparisons to Del Toro's sublime masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth.The other film was In Bruges, which was tremendous [...]

Jaws: Roy Scheider and his Brodyisms

Jaws star Roy Scheider not only gave the world some memorable performances but also some deeply inappropriate movie quotes

Latitude

It's early days yet, but the line-up for this year's Latitude Festival is already shaping up rather nicely.As I've probably mentioned before, Latitude 2007 was one of my favourite festivals ever (and that includes Glastonbury '97). A great location, a brilliant atmosphere, a nice mix of people, a relatively intimate scale, a welcome lack of corporate presence and a veritable smorgasbord of odd, mad and interesting stuff all contributed to the mix, but I think it was the shonky handmade signs that really made the difference. It gave the weekend a nice, old-school homemade feel and I've always had a [...]

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