Category: Editorial
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Thanks, Back To The Future
In 1992, seven years after *Back To The Future* came out, I bought a guitar and a skateboard, and it was directly responsible for both. One of those lasted no more than a few weeks, gravity and gravel disrupting my dreams of hitching through Peterfield’s sleepy streets. The other, though,…
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All Hail PS4’s Sleep Mode
And praise be to the Suspend/Resume function. Childbirth is a miracle. I’ve seen a tiny human being come out of another human being twice – the first emerging like a stone skimming over water, the second grumpily being pulled out after refusing to budge, both heralded by the battlecry of…
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The Problem With Bored Ghostbusters
There’s a new *Ghostbusters* movie incoming, one that fills the boots of the titular paranormal exterminators with female ankles and has *Bridesmaids* and *Spy* director Paul Feig using his comedy experience to bring it all together. None of this is a problem, of course – anyone who declares that a…
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Crowdpleasing: The Problem With Guitar Hero’s New Perspective
How the franchise’s return has got its outlook completely wrong. In a past life – a time before Canada and babies – I was playing the last notes of my last song in a gig at a concert location that was basically a Welsh community hall after all the important…
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Dak Vs The Empire
The moment all our *Star Wars* hope died. I hadn’t meant to buy Dak. I mean, who wants to buy Dak? No-one, apparently. He stood there in his tiny box, frozen next to a giant Ben Kenobi and under a grotesque Jabba. Half price, bearing the shame of a price…
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Alec Guinness and The Long Glass Corridor
I stood there, shaking, as Sir Alec Guinness moved down the long glass corridor fronting the house he built, slowly moving his bulk across two old legs and equally old cane, my lungs emptying outside as he neared the door inside. Every step forward doubled my heartbeat, legs as jelly…
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I’m Sorry, Morena Baccarin
It can’t be easy being famous as an actor. It’s such a sought after dream by so many – a fact that will keep TV executives well in pocket for a long time yet – that it’s become naturally associated with wealth and positivity and ultimate achievement. There are massive…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Feeding The Addiction
This article isn’t about me, but there needs to be some context; in 1994, in front of a packed college audience, I had to deliver a monologue. The play, I think, was Brecht’s Nazi gangster parable The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which I’d been cast in a supporting role…
Simon Best 