'Oh my f*cking christ'. It was a call that reverberated around the office as we 20 somethings flocked back to our computers in what none-too-shrewd an observer would term 'a panic'. Indeed, I think for at least a second my heart may have been coming out of my ears. But...

Yesterday the BBC website published an article in which Lucy Wallis takes a perfectly reasonable look at the reasons certain centenarians (and a related expert) give for living past the age of 100. A diverting read but tomorrow I'll change nothing about my life. This utter defiance of...

The Four-Step Conor McIntyre Guide to Charming a Lady:

Step 1: If one ever finds oneself in a situation in which a male acquaintance verbally abuses a woman for failing to eat a cake made of tinned ham covered in hot sauce, stand back and don't intervene.
N.B. Some...

Remember the good old days? Remember when you'd turn on the TV and some god-forsaken British fan had stabbed a Turkish fan to death in the name of football. Remember when West Ham versus Millwall used to mean something, I mean really mean something? A pint, a few penalties and...

"Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse."

Just when you thought that Simon Cowell couldn't be any more hypocritical, any more more false and apparently any more botoxed he's back. Last night heralded his return to Britain's Got Talent. But more importantly we got to see Susan Boyle's...

In what is a triumph for 2012 the UK box-office this week is 37% up on the equivalent weekend last year.

Battling the likes of Chalet Girl, The Lincoln Lawyer and Anuvahood this weekend we had The Devil Inside, 21 Jump Street, We Bought and Zoo and Contraband vying for...

It's hard living in co-dependent hell with The Human Centipede. As a film blogger for too long now have I wittered on day after day, never sure of where my next Centipede shaped nugget of information would come from....

I don't like what McG stands for and consequently I hate This Means War. Throughout this article that may become tediously clear. The film is rubbish and in a box-office that this week has been buoyed to a long overdue comparative high I regret that a large chuck of that...

I know by this point everyone expects any review of Jack and Jill to be a terribly scathing affair and there's no doubt it deserves as much. But there's more to it than that. It's not just a film about Adam Sandler in a woman suit and Al Pacino slumming...

Well no, since you asked. But that doesn't mean they aren't deeply flawed.

The Oscars are the high watermark of film recognition. The red carpet trampling, lovvie love-a-thon that is the motion picture awards season starts in earnest with the Golden Globes in early January and extravagantly culminates every year...

This morning I was glancing around the internet as usual looking for some inspiration and instead I found a whole heap of stupid. It's the kind of stupid you don't expect to find when perusing the broadsheets, it's the kind of Peter Hitchens starey-eyed, brains to the wall, life-threatening thickness...

Yesterday, Wikipedia along with many, many other websites partook in the 'blackout' protests against new internet piracy guidelines and acts being discussed in the American House of Representatives and the Senate.

They essentially removed their sites from circulation for a day citing that this could be a regular occurrence under...

Anyone who's seen the trailer may just think that Immortals is going to be another 300 clone. Another film full of men who spend more time shaving their chests than their faces and go around decapitating people with impunity, and actually, up to a point, they'd be right.

The...

When Michael Fassbender parades around your latest with his chap out you know you're in for trouble. Alas, the artist (and now accomplished film director) Steve McQueen seems unfazed by such bother with his latest cinematic effort revelling in its realistic depiction of sex addiction, and as much as the...

"It is no secret that Tories in the south want to leave Scotland in darkness, but fixing the clocks to British summertime would mean that dawn wouldn't break until nearly 9am."

With all of the sardonic candour that only an opposition politician could muster SNP MP Angus MacNeil public...

Hollywood's highest grossing CCTV surveillance simulator franchise is back and it's pretty much business as usual. After taking countless millions of pounds at the box office (£370 million if you're counting) the franchise seems like a low budget filmmaker's dream. A house, a few cameras and some low level, creepy...

Mild mannered and entirely unassuming, Ken Loach brings to mind one of the kindly, more elderly teachers that one inevitably comes across at school. You know the type; elbow patches, a quiet demeanour, a lifetime of stories to tell and just a vague whiff of charming puzzlement about them. As...

Call me a bleeding heart liberal but I think that women are a good thing. There it is, I've said it.

"But Ross" you shout, "you've got it all wrong, it's the 21st Century!". Garrulous as you are, you also happen to be correct. You see by now I think...

"Guybrush Threepwood has returned!" I wailed a few months back, barely able to contain my enthusiasm. "The Monkey Island series was rebooted about two years ago you uninformed moron! He's been back for ages." I may have heard you accurately (if not tactfully) shout back. Alas you would have been...

When Alec Guinness starred in 1979's BBC television adaptation of John Le Carre's cold war espionage novel the action had the topical immediacy of a contemporary drama. 30 years later and now it's a period piece and despite its Swedish director Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the most beautifully British...