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The sporting movie, a familiar story to most of us. From “Pride of the Yankees” to “Major League 2” via the “Arsenal Stadium Mystery” and “Escape to Victory” the sporting movie shows us the triumphs, the defeats, the und...
Author Archives: Nicholas Hughes
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A HISTORY OF MY WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS #3: Red Volvo V50 Estate. For years the Volvo estate was viewed by drivers with a mixture of disdain, mockery and fear. Disdain and mockery because it was the car of choice for safe, ...
FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOG
Part 2 of my meta-textural and overly indulgent review of the James Bond movies. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE There are those who maintain that “From Russia With Love” is the best James Bond film of them all. The reasons usual...
Special Guest Blog, episode 2
Continuing our piece about the great special guest star actors of British and American television. If you missed the first part you can read about it here: http://rhubba.com/special-guest-blog-2/ So, here is part 2. More...
Special Guest Blog
OOH, I LIKE HIM, HE’S THAT GUY. YOU KNOW, HE WAS IN THAT THING ABOUT THAT MAN…YOU KNOW THE ONE…WHO WAS IN PRISON, OR WAS IT BELGIUM? ANYWAY, HE HAD TO GET OUT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND BEFORE THAT OTHER GUY W...
Blog v Country
Hello. Take a seat. Now, what did you want to see me about? You don’t want to play for England and can I give Roy Hodgson a call saying you’re injured or there’s a family crisis you have to deal with? W...
Carelessness Blogs
Like most children, I had some bogeymen and terrifying characters that scared me whilst I was growing up. However, the ones that really scared me weren’t Daleks, Cybermen, Trolls, giant spiders or other such mythical bea...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a blog
OK, I’m just going to alienate a large section of my viewership and talk about role playing games here. I play them. I own loads. I’ve been doing this for around 30 years or so and, yes, I should know better ...
Martin Jarvis
A few years ago I went to see a production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” without knowing who was going to be in the cast. My wife and I just decided to go, bought the tickets and didn’t even stop to get a programme (o...
The Daily Blogitics
NIGEL FARAGE LOOKS LIKE HE’S UNDERGOING A COLONOSCOPY To me, when I see photos of UKIP leader Nigel Farage it often looks like he’s undergoing a colonoscopy or some other invasive procedure to his rectum. Don...