Film Under The Mud is a rather good low budget comedy drama filmed in and around the Garston and Speke areas of Liverpool. It’s a little...

TV One of my many, many projects, missions, j-words, is to visit all of the museums and art galleries in the North West or at least all...

Elsewhere I've reviewed this week's The Sarah Jane Adventures at Behind The Sofa . Entertaining enough but not inspirational. Ra...

Music What I've always loved about Shakira (other than her music -- aaawooo etc) is that just when you think you've read the same ...

Quiz! The competition ended at midnight. I can now reveal that my favourite Doctor is (as a surprising number of you already know): Paul ...

Hamlet played by Laurence Olivier. Directed by Laurence Olivier. Olivier’s Hamlet is one of those films which is impossible to approach with...

Science Magnificent theory as to why the Large Hadron Collider at CERN breaks down . It's sabotage. From the future: "A pair of...

Journalism I was on Twitter for #trafigura on Monday morning and once again I was reminded that the service is at its best when everyone i...

Film On the dvd for Hitchcock’s penultimate film, Topaz , Leonard Malton offers a spirited defence of the director’s most maligned work. ...

Film Universal Pictures have released a snippet of their slate for next year . There's some tremendously exciting future blu-rays in ...

Life As you’ve probably noticed, Antony Gormley’s 4th plinth project for Trafalgar Square in London, One and Other , completed today. I w...

Elsewhere To go with the competition , I've resurrected Scene Unseen for one night only to talk about the opening scenes of Olivier...

The Artifice of The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944) My first introduction to ...

Media Julie Bush talks about her Letterman and getting along in the LA business : "suddenly, for whatever reason, this star takes an ...

Life Vero has posted something about the quality of non-face to face customer service . What she said isn't wrong but did inspire me...

Politics Create your own conference speech . Here's mine: Make sure you at least click on Clegg. Yes, quite right too. [ via ]

Morning Mist , originally uploaded by feelinglistless . The view across Sefton Park this morning.

Along with the prizes, ITV DVD have sent ten interesting facts about the release of Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet ... 1. Hamlet was the first Br...

Elsewhere Another competition! At the Hamlet Weblog: Win Olivier's Hamlet and Henry V on Blu-Ray .

I've always wanted to say something along the lines of the follow: To celebrate the release of Laurence Olivier's classic interpreta...