Film The Bafta Nominations were announced a couple of days ago and as ever I've seen about two of the films on offer; as ever I offer ...

TV Regular readers to this blog will know that I have a couple of running, not so much, themes, but subjects which I keep returning to, on...

Film Oh Tiffany. Oh Ando . Oh that bald actor who played an Admiral in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Conspiracy ...

MY HOLLYWOOD. http://ff.im/-eCGxH 4 minutes ago nofollow http://ff.im/-eCB81 Generation XD http://ff.im/-eCziJ Is the US increasingly a n...

TV Much the same as everyone else, I rarely manage to keep to new year’s resolutions mainly because they’re general, unachievable challeng...

TV I meant to write about The Wire tonight but there’s a Who fanpocalypse happening online prompted by a post at the Hollywood Reporter a...

How To Make A Michael Cera film: http://bit.ly/8CKv5d 19 minutes ago Ben Goldacre: A clarification: why people have been concerned by Baron...

Books A comment in this post about marketing for the Amazon Kindle has led me to discovery that might be useful to someone who shares my ...

Music Bach's Cello Suites had fallen into obscurity until a teenager stumbled upon an early printing in a second hand shop : "For...

Books I’m currently reading John Grisham’s 2001 novel(la?) Skipping Christmas . It’s a modern Dickensian fable about a couple who decide,...

Film From the early to mid part of last century, every main street it seems, in city centres and suburbs, had a cinema, huge, beautiful edi...

Russell T Davies's Doctor Who scripts online in conjunction with the new edition of his book The Writer's Tale. http://ff.im/-ejkQ5...

TV Off The Telly is closing , which is tragic. It was the first place that let me write online outside of this blog including the article...

Books Even before film school, my impression of the history of film-style, most specifically cinematography was built on a very solid prog...

National Geographic Unearths Its Buried Treasure: http://bit.ly/507mve £200m retail park planned for Edge Lane in Liverpool http://ff.im/-ed...

TV In a recent blog post, Marina Hyde took the BBC to task over their Lyndsey Lohan documentary , linking to the clip which looks like a F...

Film The announced reboot of the Spiderman film franchise may be a surprise -- and to an extent a kick in the face for people who've ...

Film My intellectual absence from the blog (in the sense that there haven't been too many blocks of text since the new year) can be at...

Billie Piper: the interview http://ff.im/-e6lGt The Incredibly Strange Hyperbole Show http://ff.im/-e4SvE Dig Your Own Grave, Build Your Own...