2009 is the 25th Anniversary of one of the films which shaped my childhood, a film with an iconic soundtrack, spinoff cartoons, an underwhelming sequel and the biggest cutest bad guy ever. The film is Ghostbusters and the bad guy; The “Staypuft Marshmallow Man” and now a full quarter cen...

Filed under: Style, Steal That Style Our first exposure to Billy Crudup was his playing a sweet-faced '70s junkie with an unprintable nickname in the gentle, mournful 1999 indie flick "Jesus' Son." His big break came a year later, when he portrayed fictional band Stillwater's... Read more   Per...

Dominic Grieve, the shadow Justice secretary,  will today make a hard-hitting attack on political correctness and the Government's failure to question damaging aspects of multiculturalism. But he also admits that the Right has so far failed to credibly address some of those issues. Speaking at ...

Filed under: Sex, Weird, News It's not just the sight of a hot chick that can put a guy in the mood: There's the sound of sexily murmured suggestions, the touch of soft female skin, the scent of ... rotten eggs? A newly published study suggests that hydrogen sulfide -- the gas... Read more   Pe...

Ladies and gentlemen, it's official: You people love to party. OK, that's no surprise. But how you party has been a mystery to the world at large, until now. The good men at Asylum.com have taken up the noble task of polling party-goers to find out exactly how you sons-of-bitches tick. And now, with...

Last Friday's Telegraph reported that immigration was becoming voters' top issue.  This morning's Times warns of "hordes of unemployed workers heading west" unless radical action is taken to bail out recession-struck Eastern European nations.  But although the "rich" EU...

I'll be 23 on Wednesday. Not sure how I feel about it. It's kind of a shit number, really. At least Effie got me some superdeeduper amazing triple layer chocolate cake and 3 months free to NetFlix. I was having a little writer's block for a while... Again... And then I did some more research on them...

"A gay woman has been granted refugee status after three years battling the UK's asylum system. Yesterday it was confirmed that Pegah Emambakhsh will be allowed to remain in the UK. The 42-year-old Iranian sought asylum in 2005. She escaped from her home country after her partner was arres...

[Image description: Newspaper clipping about the 1893 asylum fire near Dover NH, with the headlines "Cremated./Forty Crazed People Burned to Death./Insane Asylum at the County Farm Burned to Ground./Horrible Scenes Enacted in a Hell of Fire and Smoke./A Calamity Without Parallel Falls upon the Count...

Confusing us all with their ability to have multiple versions of their main earning characters floating around at once, Warner Brothers and DC comics have partnered with Eidos and Rocksteady to create a Batman game that has precisely NOTHING to do with their biggest earning movie ever; The Dark Knig...