William Shatner’s recent stint in the host’s chair on Have I Got News for You was not his first appearance in a British TV production. Back in the 1990s, he and James Doohan – Scotty – were seduced by the corporate dollar of the company that had earlier ensnared Peter Purves for advertising purposes: National … >
Times were clearly hard at MI6 during the 1990s. M had to make endless series of As Time Goes By, James Bond had to pretend to be a rich playboy committing audacious art heists and even Miss Moneypenny had to appear in an episode of Inspector Morse to make ends meet. Hit hardest of all, … >
‘Interaction’ has been the buzzword of modern media ever since somebody realised that user-generated content was cheap and effective, but CultBox honestly never thought that Tippex, the popular correcting fluid, would be a forerunner in the next stage of our digital evolution: interactive YouTube videos. We were completely wrong, of course. Find out what happens … >
The shot of a guy slapping a soft drinks dispenser to obtain his can of Irn Bru, only to be nutted by said machine in return, is one of the most enduring British advertising images of the late 1980s. In fact, the fizzy ginger drink from Scotland has been publicised by a succession of brilliant … >
The guy who plays music on his floppy disk drives – this is not a euphemism, CultBoxed newcomers – has been at it again. This time, he’s turned his mechanical musical madness to Game of Thrones, turning the stately sound of Ramin Djawadi’s opening theme into something from Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music – and … >
It’s a bit hit-and-miss in places, but there are still enough LOLs in this inventive mash-up of the Star Wars franchise and The Mighty Boosh to make it worthwhile. Anything that includes Darth Vader turning his back on an Imperial officer in the style of the appropriately-named Naboo and Bob Fossil having a pop at … >
When buying anything from a megalomaniac überbastard, James Bond needs to know his man is up to speed with modern technology. Happily, Christopher Walken’s Max Zorin is clearly something of a computer whizz…
Recently, CultBox has been enjoying Google’s video for their Project Glass experiment, although this is possibly more to do with the fact that it uses Bibio’s wonderful ‘Lovers’ Carvings’ as a soundtrack than because we’re totally involved with the idea of augmented reality glasses. Yeah, this utopic vision of a voice-operated headset that controls all … >
Two years since Lost ended, creator Damon Lindelof has revealed his take on the show’s controversial final episode in a new in-depth interview with On The Verge…
The act of saying the same thing over and over again until it has no meaning and sounds ridiculous has long since been elevated to an art form by politicians, but it’s sad to find MI6 caught in the same web of babble. Here, James Bond, M, Q and a plethora of baddies quote two … >