TV Just in case anyone else has missed this, and to prove the BBC do know something about scheduling after all, Simon Callow's The Mys...

Film I've been waiting for this. A little while ago, Empire magazine gave The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film four stars a...

TV There are moments during each episode of the new series of Doctor Who when you know the programme makers are having the time of thei...

Books In Tesco yesterday buying my weekend's supply of water I happened upon the film tie-in copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The...

The Weather While I'm writing about current affairs, did anyone else in the UK get snow today? It's April for goodness sake. It...

Politics I had hoped to be writing here much more this week, but Blogger has been up its usual tricks, server errors all over, which is pr...

Politics So the election campaign is in full swing and as usual I'll be ignoring all the arguments and voting Liberal Democrat. Given...

DVD The insanely brilliant tv series Firefly is but £12.97 at Amazon . So there really isn't any excuse not to buy this now.

Franchesca tells us about The Real Thing: Only two people in the company know Coca-Cola's formula, and each of them only knows half of i...

TV  Is this all having the smell of something going horribly wrong? This bit of Outpost Gallifrey says it all really : "Will Doctor...

Some fun French facts from one of our readers, Jacques: "The real name of my country is not France, but France Republic - not many know...

TV Simon Groom says: " Don't be an RSOD ." It feels like something Chris Morris might do if he were hired to do an actual c...

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Excellent Google Answer to the following question: "Taking into account the 16th and 17th Century English that was spoken in Shakespea...

Film Slightly old but no less interesting interview with Whit Stillman by Psychology Today . On Woody Allen: "He made it a lot easier...

Film I'm excited and slightly depressed by the news that a sequel to the John Hughes film Pretty In Pink is in the works . I secretl...

Life For what's supposed to be a romantic comedy, Four Weddings and a Funeral effected me greatly yesterday and reminded me once agai...

Music Wierd synergy as I listen to Natalie Imbruglia's new album for the first time. Here is the chorus to the title track, Counting...

Travels One of my stupid issues about hotels is that they don't feel like home, and although they hope to be that for the duration of ...

Another contribution from Franchesca. Eating turkey makes people sleepy. Which presumably explains why I never feel tired after Christmas ...