Now that’s what I call a busy month…

October has been a pretty busy month for me, hence the lack of Money Pit updates. Three mags in four weeks, with an additional bit of help on a fourth adds up to one heck of a lot of pages. All four arrived on my desk this morning and it made me realize just how [...]

The Top Ten Most Influential Films of the Last 10 Years

Mr Phin pointed me in the direction of this list of the ‘10 Most Influential Films in the Last 10 Years‘, and I couldn’t help but spend all morning compiling my own count down. Although I see where the writer is coming from, I can’t help but feel several of them are a matter of [...]

Project Top Secret revealed at last

Well, it’s been 9 long month of blood, sweat and tantrums, but ‘Project Top Secret’ can finally be revealed. That’s right, the MacFormat Refresh (not a redesign, that would have involved more paperwork) has finally gone live and I have to say I am pretty darn proud of it. It’s probably the biggest design project [...]

MacFormat, the Award Winning magazine

Fantastic news today as MacFormat won the ACE subscriptions award for Circulation Excellence of a Small Magazine. We were in excellent company, coming joint first with a newagents retail mag – nice. To prove it wasn’t some made-up award, other winners included the Guardian, Vogue, Glamour and Take A Break – illustrious company you have [...]

5 great albums by bands you’ve probably never heard of*

*Unless you’re Carter, at which point you’ve probably heard them all!
With the world of music being somewhat unexciting at the moment, I’ve found myself going back over some forgotten classics on my shelves, and so thought I would share some of my current favourites with you. However, instead of simply listing off the same bands [...]

Heckled by the Headmaster’s son.

Bath’s new comedy club, Komedia, opened a couple of months back and I have been meaning to get along there and see someone amusing for weeks, and that finally happened last night when I joined forces with Miss Passmore, the Phins and El Cartino to go and see former Fist Of Fun star Richard Herring [...]

Frost/Nixon

In principle, a 2 and a half hour film about an interview between a disgraced ex-president of the USA and the presenter of Through The Keyhole, shouldn’t be that interesting. However Frost/Nixon is one of the most entertaining and informative films I have seen in years. The central performances of Michael Sheen and Frank Langella as Frost [...]

Oh the weather outside is frightful, dum-de-dum delightful!

After a week of news reports, where the rest of the country seemed gripped by an icy maelstrom, it was finally Bath’s turn to have a light dusting of snow and have it’s transport infrastucture grind to a halt. Alas, with me living on one of the busiest road and on the 3rd floor, there [...]

DVD boxsets have killed my love of TV

The new series of Lost started this past week and I have to say, I couldn’t care less. I had hoped that the revelation of them all getting off the island at the end of Season 4 would rejuvinate my interest in the survivors of
Oceanic Flight 816, but alas, it doesn’t seem to have done [...]

The Wrestler

It’s easy to get side-tracked by all the parallels between the real-life Mickey Rourke and the character of Randy The Ram who he plays in this fim, however without his central performance, The Wrestler could have been as hollow and formulaic as most people believe wrestling to be. Because of Rourke’s fall from grace in [...]