Shining Darkness.

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Books Considering he has a ship which can travel anywhere in existence at any time (give or take a timelock or two), never mind his fondne...

iconic ironic glint in his eye

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Obituary Before writing this, I was seeing which of the now late Paul Newman’s films I was yet to see. Whenever one of the great old acto...

actually quite good

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Elsewhere "I like to think of it as the universe making sure I'm in the right place at the right time. It has a habit of doing th...

How?.

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How to be psychic . How to write iconic lyrics . How to bring drama to a wall clock . How some record reviews can be very wrong . How to sto...

a cathartic cry

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Precisely none of the films I voted for are in the Empire Magazine's Top 500 , so job done. It's actually a very intelligent and k...

How did we come to this?

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Liverpool Biennial 2008 One of the most technically brilliant short films ever made is Claude Lelouche’s Rendezous in which a car careen ...

the bathroom of the country

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Liverpool Biennial 2008 Liverpool has of course confirmed itself as the bathroom of the country. Just when we think we've gotten ri...

or is it three?

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Liverpool Biennial 2008 Here then is the biannual Liverpool Biennial review. The theme for 2008’s International show is Made-Up which o...

I offer some links.

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Barack asks Jed for some advice. Charlie has a new film coming out. David invokes the rather sweet Music & Lyrics as part of an investi...

Merlin.

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TV The BBC’s new Doctor Who methadone, Merlin was a very entertaining 45 minutes. And it certainly had a better opening episode than their...

a fairly well trod journey

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TV The BBC’s new Doctor Who methadone, Merlin was a very entertaining forty-five minutes, and certainly had a better opening episode than ...

it's more complicated than that

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Life Realising I was missing quite a nice day, I decided I needed to get out, to see something, somewhere with fresh air. So I've bee...

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Life Goodness, is that the time? I slept in this morning (nine o'clock, the very idea!), shaved, checked the mail, got breakfast, loo...

the sheer brace of strangers

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Liverpool Biennial 2008 I've just got back from the preview evening for this year's Liverpool Biennial. I'll not talk about t...

What a responsibility!

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TV This month, Doctor Who Magazine reaches its 400th issue after twenty-nine years of unbroken publishing and I thought it deserved at le...

Adams is or rather was something of a folk hero

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Books As originally passionately posted here. The obvious typos give away the speed with which I was tapping away: Gosh, I'm glad I...

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Books I don't care if it is written by Artemis Fowl's Eoin Colfer, the world does not need a sixth Hitchhikers book unless it...

I'll let everything else speak for itself.

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It's late so I'll simply tell you that I've reviewed Vicky C's new panel game Only Connect at Off The Telly and suggest th...

Only Connect.

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TV Victoria Coren looks incongruous sitting behind a desk presenting BBC4′s new panel game, Only Connect. That’s because, with the excepti...

helpful and apologetic

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Back on the Public Art Collections in North-West England (by Edward Morris) campaign trail and to Blackpool. The Grundy Art Gallery in its...