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This year marks the 30th Anniversary of this album and, with the recent announcement of their return next year, it feels appropriate to revisit this classic. It's easy to forget this album in the deluge of success that followed it, particularly the follow-up which became one of the biggest selling rock records of all time. "What's The Story (Morning Glory)" is one of those albums that simply everyone owns. At least 25% of the proceeds likely went up the nostrils of one or th

"Life's too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones."  Few people in life have gotten anywhere near the achievements of Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He is one of the most famous explorers in the world and holds multiple endurance records, including being the oldest Brit to climb Everest and accomplishing the ridiculous feat of running 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents just four months after having a massive heart attack. So I would approach this book k

When it comes to Tom Hanks, it's hard to think of many people who've had a better Hollywood career. His mere presence in a film is not only enough to secure bums on seats but almost single-handedly elicits a seal of approval that, no matter the film, you will not be wasting 2 hours of your time with old Tommy at the helm. 

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Some things you cannot be objective about. Coldplay is one of them. Is Chris Martin annoying? Yes, probably. Is it ridiculous that some of their song titles are emojis? Again, yes. Have Coldplay become the living embodiment of what Gen Z consider deeply middle-aged and unhip? Yes they have. Do I give one sh*t? No I do not. 

It is a rare treat these days to go into a film knowing absolutely nothing about it. Yet I somehow managed just that when scrolling through Amazon Prime looking for things to watch in the wee hours of the night. Something about the tagline intrigued me and I, falsely, assumed that it was a wrestling movie based on the famous Hart family. How wrong I was.  

Released in 1977, this was Spielberg's much anticipated follow-up to mega-hit and undisputed all time classic, Jaws (1975). At this time Spielberg was not Spielberg and everyone in the entire movie world was curious to see if this young prodigy just struck lightning in the bottle with his first big effort, or was he really the talent that people suspected he might be. Thus this film, upon its release, was closely watched and, for the most part, proved the latter to be true. 

"I don't really regret anything in my life" - Vince McMahon To whoever is reading this (likely no one), I have a confession to make: there will be times when reviewing things when I will not be able to be objective. When the subject matter is so close to my heart that all trace of journalistic integrity will be thrown out of the window in favour of just bleating on about how much I love something. This is the case with WWF wrestling. 

"Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.” - Ignatius J. Reilly The title of this book comes from a quote by Jonathan Swift - 'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him' - and its publication is one that you cannot help but have mixed feelings about. After all it is considered one of the greatest works of comedy ever c