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A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Series 10 of the Lego Minifigs have finally begun to arrive on our shores!  This weekend, Jen and I picked up a handful of packs.  As usual, I sat unhelpfully on the sidelines whilst Jen felt the bags and identified the minifig inside.  She hit a 100% accuracy rate on 14 bags.  That’s right.  We didn’t get a single duplicate. ...

Thomas Keller is most renowned for his world famous Californian restaurant French Laundry.  It remains exceptionally exclusive and difficult to land a reservation.  I tried and I failed.  Per Se, its sister restaurant in New York, was a slightly easier proposition to get a table. You only have to call up at 9am local time, exactly four weeks out from ...

Top of the Lake Top of the Lake is a fantastic mini-series co-produced by BBC Two and UKTV in Australia and New Zealand.  It casts a host of talented actors from all three countries and pits them in a wonderfully weird and ethereal thriller. Elisabeth Moss plays Robin Griffin, a Sydney based detective who returns to her hometown in New ...

I first began reading Roger Ebert’s memoir, Life Itself, a couple of months ago.  In a sad but not entirely unexpected development, Ebert passed away from his long battle with cancer before I had a chance to finish the book.  Being a man with an impeccable and unnerving sense of timing, Ebert publicly blogged his retirement from full time film ...

Chef Eric Ripert’s French seafood cuisine at Le Bernardin is some of the most highly decorated in the world.  Most recently, it was recognized as the 19th Best Restaurant In The World, in Restaurant Magazine‘s annual awards.  It has upheld a standard of excellence for an unprecedented thirty six years since it first opened in 1976 and is a permanent ...

New York New York Cityyyy!!! We had high hopes and a million plans for New York.  It was the longest leg of our American holiday and it was our most anticipated destination.  We planned and we crammed our itinerary with so many things to do.  I certainly enjoyed my trip to America enough to want to revisit the country in ...

How much is a video game worth? I pondered that question exactly two years ago when I speculated on the fortunes of game publishers and how they might approach the new generation of traditional consoles – Playstation4, Xbox 720, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita. It was a short and sweet piece in which I naively surmised that to ...

I spent my Saturday in the office working as an extra in a tv commercial.  It was a bit of fun.  I played the role of Interested Client #2. I expect my Screen Actor’s Guild membership will arrive in the mail in four to six weeks.

As many of you will know, New Zealand legalized gay marriage last week.  One of the most memorable moments during the discussion of the bill was Maurice Williamson’s ‘Big Gay Rainbow’ speech which I’ve posted in it’s entirety. What’s surprising is that Williamson represents a conversative party in New Zealand.  Watching this video, I’m pretty sure he’s more left-leaning and ...