Tag Archives: The Brit List

The Brit List: Five British Desserts With Disgusting Names

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 28th, 2012

Let’s start with the classic, the one everyone knows:

1: Spotted Dick

The Brit List: 15 Cool Uses for a Red Phone Booth

By Brigid Brown | Posted on September 26th, 2012

Most people have mobiles and don’t rely on a public booth, but it’ll never get old popping into an iconic British red phone box — possibly for a photo opportunity, to dodge the weather, or even to make an ...

The Brit List: The 10 Most British Towns in America

By William Kay | Posted on September 18th, 2012

Fanueil Hall is one of Boston's many buildings done in a British style. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Editor’s note: This post is brought to you by Up to Speed, a Hulu original series from Richard Linklater (writer/director of Before Sunrise, Waking Life, and Dazed and Confused), which follows tour guide Timothy ...

The Brit List: Five Underrated Pink Floyd Songs

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 6th, 2012

Is it appropriate to wish Roger Waters a happy birthday? He never seemed like the type to enjoy those kind of well-meant, banal good wishes.

The Brit List: Anglophenia’s Top Five Summer Movie Winners and Losers

By Leah Rozen | Posted on September 3rd, 2012

Summer winners: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy in 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' (20th Century Fox)

With Labor Day upon us, the summer movie season is officially over. It will soon be safe for serious moviegoers to go back into theaters without fearing that every single movie will feature comic book heroes, robots or Adam Sandler.

The Brit List: Five Great British Things Americans Missed In The ’90s

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 29th, 2012

I know what you’re thinking, it IS an oddly specific list, this one, isn’t it? Speaks to a very specific core demographic of the Anglophenia audience, namely anyone who was around the in the ’90s, all paying attention ...

The Brit List: 10 Stinging British Insults

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 27th, 2012

I should start with a confession. When compiling this list, I assumed it would be a gadabout stone-skim along the top of the English language, each new bounce a perfectly formed (but firmly NSFW) gem.

The Brit List: Top Ten British Character Actresses In Movies Today

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 23rd, 2012

Dame Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton in 'Downton Abbey'

In some ways, compiling this list has been more of a head-scratcher than its male counterpart, and this is in part because of the way producers and audiences tend to view female actresses as they get older. It seems a handsome male lead ...

Five Great British Songs About Coppers, For ‘Copper’

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 13th, 2012

This Sunday (August 19, at 10/9c) sees the premiere of BBC America’s hottest new show, the police drama Copper.

The Brit List: Five Alternative Sources Of Paul McCartney

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 30th, 2012

Let’s face facts, Sir Paul McCartney – national treasure that he is, global unificator, former Beatle, former Wing, and generally energetic and breezy presence at the rock ‘n’ roll tea party – is not going to last ...