TV Eight or nine years ago I got a phone call from Tris. He asked me if I'd been watching this american sitcom because he'd been ...

Film Watching the Clooney / Kidman explosion-fest The Peacemaker in the middle of my malaise the other night it occured to me that this wa...

Film I never caught the crest of the Harry Potter wave. I don't read a lot of fiction and I've found the films to be a bit meand...

TV After watching the first show tonight (which featured at least one moment which should be in the best bits at the end) I can only assu...

Life I'll be blogging again when my pc gets better and the cold which is keeping me off work goes away.

Who Yes, yes, Billie Piper is the new Doctor Who companion . Oh look it could have been a lot, lot worse. She's a name and apart fr...

Site News Atom feed . Joints hurting. Groggy. Thing I may be getting a cold ...

"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time." Film  When was the last time you watched a film and a...

Music Oh. Um. Pfff. Here we are at album four (barring live albums and offcuts) in the Alanis Morissette odyssey. In the liner notes ...

Life Oh um errr ... or ten things which have led me to give a definite pause in the past two days: (1) The man ahead of me in the queu...

Film Not having seen the Universal films referenced within except for in glimpses from other film and homage I came to Van Helsing withou...

Elsewhere The Shakespeare Weblog has recieved one hit so far today. So someone is reading it. Little acorns etc.

Referrer Logs I'm surprised I haven't had any hate mail . Many hits today from that search. But please. Don't get me starte...

Life think today was the actual first of the summer days. It had all of the conditions. Massively bright environs, light refreshing bree...

TV The new bumber issue of TV Cream-Up is around and as well as an onsite report from the Play School reunion ... "Fred Harris cla...

Shakespeare didn't write any of his plays as we see them now. This isn't as controversial a statement as it might at first seem. Wh...

Shakespeare Will in concert: "I've always loved Shakespeare," said Paul Dorgan, the Salt Lake City pianist who devised the ...

Shakespeare The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film is a string of essays describing the problems involved in adapting what is ess...

Shakespeare Fascinating interview with Kevin Klein regarding his Tony nominated performance as Falstaff.

Shakespeare Macbeth test silly, say irate teachers : "The 14-year-olds taking the compulsory exam on the Bard were asked in the pape...