Film "Sorry. I'd have to say the only nice thing about it was Jonathan's warm and sweet embrace. First of all, I was in this ...

Elsewhere Watched Aki Kaurismaki's Hamlet liikemaailmassa (1987) tonight and found myself unable to write a coherent review for The H...

Hamlet played by Pirkka-Pekka Petelius Directed by Aki Kaurismaki This film, whose English release title was Hamlet Goes Business is darkly...

Politics "However, it is clear now, that such support is not reflected strongly enough across the parliamentary party in the House of...

Film For reasons that will become clear I saw the trailer for Memoirs of a Geisha . Why did the editors make it look like Showgirls with...

Billie Piper is presently half presenting The Friday Night Project tonight. We've just reached the first commercial break and it's...

Photography Sefton Park at dawn 2004 Originally uploaded by shoecake . There are many mornings when the park looks just like this. I forge...

Film So it's going to be The Oscars with Jon Stewart . Weeee.... Not that I'll get to see the full version now that Sky have the r...

Plug! The Bloggies are looking for nominations . I mean everyone else is shamelessly shilling so why not me?

Books Ben Schott's Almanac 2006 is an extraordinary book, rubberstamping much of last year perfectly covering seeming all of the topi...

People "Whoever this is, sitting so sweetly beside me in the back of the car, I'm not wholly convinced it is the person who wrote...

Elsewhere I visited the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight on Monday -- one of those spur of the moment things were you really just w...

Music When I was commuting last time, oh so long ago, there were certain albums or songs which helped me through the monotony (for a time ...

TV Balderdash and Piffle is a new BBC2 series in which various guests with the help of the general public try to find the origin of words...

Books  Before we start, I just wanted to say. That really is a dog of a cover. I'm sorry artist Colin Howard but having that sitting ...

Shakespeare Speak The Speech is a group in Portland, Oregon which is striving to put full recordings of the bard's plays online for a...

Review 2005 "I somehow manage to title my first new season review with the show's soon-to-be infamous catchphrase: 'Fantastic...

Film I caught a taxi home tonight. After I'd given the destination the driver began shouting angrily about an incident which had happ...

Review 2005 I've a feeling there may be a few of these update posts. Here, for example is the ultrasound for Karen's baby . Cong...

Fashion "I never make it to Oxford Street. I go to Whistles in Covent Garden...5 seconds from my front door. I've often coveted t...