Category Archives: Unlikely Reviews
Shibboleth 2007
Sculptor Doris Salcedo has unveiled a hole at the Tate Modern – the latest installation in the art gallery’s Turbine Hall. The work, entitled Shibboleth 2007, runs the full 167 metres of the cavernous hall on London’s South Bank. It … Continue reading
Strictly on a Journey – Review
Why is everybody on a ‘journey’? In ‘Strictly Not Dancing’ it’s only the first night and everyone will improve, they are on a ‘journey’. In ‘I’m a B List Celebrity Hype Me Up Here’ everybody’s behaving like spoilt children, but … Continue reading
Friends – Review
I’ve just seen this great show on the TV. It’s about six young, single, New York friends. There are three girls and three boys and they all live together but they don’t have sex with each other, well not in … Continue reading
Pride
You know those Churchill Insurance adverts? I don’t reckon that’s a real dog. Dogs are proud creatures whose main failing is that they are cursed to worship Man. I don’t believe that a real dog would talk all that rubbish, … Continue reading
The 300 – Review
This film depicts the heroic defence of the pass of Thermopylae by 300 Spartan soldiers against a massive Persian army. As it happens there were about 1,700 other dudes helping them so really it should be called ‘The 2,000’ but … Continue reading
Concert review
Thousands of people who complained about the facilities at a Barbra Streisand concert in County Kildare in July are to be compensated. Traffic jams, seating problems, a lack of stewarding and mucky conditions led to 1,144 letters of … Continue reading