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TV ITV's new Saturday night sci-fi drama Primeval is dreadfully dated, gloriously misconceived, horribly written, annoyingly acted pi...

TV The slow way. The bizarre tradition of serial dramas and sitcoms is the attempt to mimic real life even though they're clearly set...

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OTT BLOG: "YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME" Doctor Who and the Empress of Arachnos (sort of) return for a rematch in new drama 'Recove...

Loser (2000) Mostly disregarded as yet another in a rash of teen films released in the wake of American Pie (possibly because it shares som...

technoranki.com: blog rankings This blog is currently at 297 out of about 5000 which is pretty good going. SARSPARILLA: Dissonant. On liv...

Late Night Shopping (2001) The film so good I've already reviewed it twice. Here and indeed here . There's really no point in me ...

Museums After the success of my visit to the Atkinson in Southport last week, I looked through Edward Morris's Public Art Collections ...

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Life Well the cold has largely cleared now except for some winter snivels which means the reality of the situation is returning. Deep bre...

Barfly (1987) Today's film is suggested by guest blogger, Gary Hollingsbee . For a while I've been undergoing a personal Renaissance...

DVD Times: 6 DEFA Studios Films in February A boring title which hides a really exciting fact. "The Singing Ringing Tree" comes ...

A Thousand Acres (1997) It's King Lear set on a farm in Iowa! Based on a Pulitzer novel by Jane Smiley this was produced during that ti...

Digi-Cream Times: The Seven Ages of Clive James "DATES: 1988-1995. FEATS: Talking by satellite to Vitali Vitaliev. Inventing YouTube....

The Red Violin (1998) This was released in the uk at the same time as The Matrix and sank without trace and at the end of the year I rang R...

Slate Magazine: The mystery of the "short" cappuccino A discussion of my new friend in Starbucks.

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That's William Russell, Kirsty Young's guest on Desert Island Disks on Friday morning at Nine o'clock. And now on the new look ...

The Hour of the Pig (1993) When Parisian lawyer Richard Courtois (Colin Firth) relocates to a small town hoping to 'bring the law to the...