Comics For the first time in nearly a decade, Doctor Who Magazine's comic strip has changed shape. Writer Scott Gray's epic run o...

A great example from Music Thing of how sometimes it's vitally important to keep your copyright. The man who composed the four notes w...

There is a song in the musical Hair containing much of the text from one of Hamlet's soliloquies. Here are the lyrics: "What a pi...

Theatre Blogging Hamlet , I've come to the conclusion that most of the really good theatrical productions are hinge on one or two key ...

Film Has anyone else noticed that James Woods hasn't made a great film in a loooong time?

Life This is my city? This is my city. Two hundred thousand people waiting for the Liverpool team bus to arrive singing 'You'll ...

That may be the great headline ever. It gets better: "Whatever it was, New York-based Tiny Ninja Theater's production of Hamlet i...

Elsewhere The greatest headline about Hamlet ever: " Tiny ninjas minimize Shakespeare's Hamlet. "

Football I don't know anything about football but the Liverpool match seemed fairly exciting (what I saw of it). To go from being 3-...

Elsewhere I've just posted an answer to an age old Star Wars question to HeardSaid .

Here is a scene from the shooting script of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith which explains the one thing many fans had been dying to know. ...

Film I've had a few days to cogitate on this, the cynicism is settling in nicely I think I've decided what's been niggling me ...

TV Watching poor Akhtar Khan pop up this morning, filling for everyone else in the news centre on BBC Breakfast (with the exception of Bus...

Music (?) The Guardian blogs the Eurovision substantially better than I could: "It's Red Hot Paprika Pants, otherwise known as Z...

Life Well here we are at the end of the road, or rather in my case the end of the holiday. That depressing Sunday when you know you have ...

Life Spent yesterday in Belfast and actually doing that as a day trip wasn't as daffy an idea as it might sound considering that I was...

Film In 1999 when I left our local multiplex having seen Star Wars: The Phantom Menace , I felt ellated. Not betrayed. No disappointed. ...

Elsewhere Just because I wasn't writing here, doesn't mean I didn't cause mayhem elsewhere. This post at Metafilter led to t...

Life I don't know if this is an addiction, or whether I just feel the need for instant communication, but not posting anything has bee...

Life I've been finding it extraordinarily difficult to write lately. It's been torture. I've been lacking an inspiration and...