TV Ironically, I too am double banking this week, with the first chapter of a dissertation to write and so just like the Doctor's ap...

TV "Here is the Doctor, and here is Rose again, in Victorian Britain in episode two of the current series, just as they were in Victo...

dvd "The Narrator somehow imagines that the job of an audio commentator is to painstakingly explain what's happening onscreen for...

Food "There's always excitement in the lab when we empty the contents from a type of can that we've not opened before and see...

Life Remember that essay I was having all the trouble with at the start of the month? Got the mark back -- 68% -- which goes to show that...

Have you seen Earthquake ? What an amazing yet brilliantly awful film. Apart from the chizzled heroic performance from gun loving Charlton...

Film Just recieved a notification from Play.com that what should forever be called the evil Star Wars rereleases have a rrp of £22.99. E...

Film I was out taking a study break at Tesco buying a loaf when I stumbled into a Choices Video and picked up far too many dvds for myself...

North West Life The consistently great The North West Enquirer now has a blogwatch feature , and amazingly, I'm already on their blog...

Music La, la , lee la, la . What a great idea. I hope something similar launches over here. Although I'm not sure anyone would want...

As Lea says: "As a wannabe future editor and recovering Hamlet junkie, I'm not entirely certain how I feel about this. It opens up ...

Film Forward talk on Pixar's latest Cars had not been great. The reviews are materialising and thank goodness, giving the work a thu...

Life Carried on reading for my dissertation today. I'm beginning to see the same names and recognising sections from articles I'v...

Film One of my regular readers who I can't seem to get through email (Keith!) might like to know that in the film 200 Cigarettes , the...

TV Making The News takes a satirical look at rolling news presenters. It's like a British Daily Show without the political commentar...

Victor Garber from TV's Alias in the film Singles (1992) Meeting Debbie at the airport in Cameron Crowe's film Singles . Look at ...

TV When I was in my first year of school I used to attend bible study meetings. I wasn't a Christian. It was that moment we all go...

Life This last couple of days have been spent at a Philosophy of Film conference at Liverpool University. I'm feeling hot and drained...

Journalism "The ongoing Diana saga provides a particularly clear illustration of the way in which the Daily Express constructs it...

Sport No hold on... Film No erm ... Whatever. Tonight, ahead of the World Cup (because everything seems to be ahead of the World Cup at ...