Food is useful in many ways. The number one reason we eat of course is so that we keep on living. Food also releases endorphins into the bloodstream, your brain rewarding you for having tracked some food down (although admittedly this is somewhat easier these days, particularly so if you live in a Western society). Sharing a meal can also be great for social events and getting to know people. It can also lead to irrational rage and a deep hatred for everything that did exist, currently exists or will exist. Let me explain. [More]

I really like movies. Ask anyone I know. I like them. Movies that is. Them could mean anything. I like movies. And I’m not one of those people who only likes the biggest blockbusters with a budget that easily covers the GDP of a couple of the poorest countries in the world with enough spare change to send a rocket to the Moon. I also like watching movies with lower budgets and less glitz; probably more than the latest sequel of a remade sequel if I’m honest. Hell I’ve even been known to watch a movie with subtitles. That’s right, one of those movies that isn’t spoken out in English and forces you to activate that part of the brain responsible for reading and understanding. But I have to draw the line somewhere. And that somewhere is Melancholia, a movie as arse-clenchingly bad as it name suggests. [More]