single handedly saving Bee Season etc

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Film Ebert reviews Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme : "This film is an affront. It is incoherent, maddening, deliberately opaq...

Musicians of Shakespeare's Globe

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The Guardian has an excellent piece on the musicians from Shakespeare's Globe . Artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, offers some insig...

a near perfect Guardian headline

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Journalism Laugh as I might at this perfect storm of an Express front page , I'm not so much of a looking glass gazer that I can't...

it was easy to imagine them

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TV Neil Gaiman's posted a FAQ about Doctor Who's The Doctor's Wife and it's invaluable in these dark days without podcast ...

spoilers like Albion Market rarely work

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Books One of the less desirable inconsistencies of broadsheet arts coverage (or at least the arts coverage in the broadsheet I read) is in...

"Don't threaten me with a dead fish."

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The Duchess of Cornwall meets Richard E Grant , originally uploaded by The British Monarchy .

"in places where Woody’s movies don’t usually respond"

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Film Again proving William Goldman's maxim that no one knows anything Woody's latest film, Midnight in Paris, has gone relatively ...

random, incoherent musings

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Life   This blog, and more specifically Saturday's Doctor Who review received a thousand hits. Blogger stats indicate that the source...

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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That inspiration for Ophelia story.

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The obligatory link due to the title of this blog department (I'm in a cynical mood today): "A little girl of the 16th century, wh...

Extract from Kingsley Amis's The King's English: A Guide To Modern Usage

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Over a decade ago and old friend, well I assume we're still friends, sent me a copy of Kingsley Amis's The King's English: A Gu...

a particular season

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TV Here's where we're up to: The BBC have commissioned the usual thirteen episodes of Doctor Who for next year, plus a Christmas...

anonymous complaint

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Film This unit and lack of policing of her kind of behaviour is one of the reasons I hardly go to the cinema these days and wait three mon...

RSC at 50 illustrated.

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Polska Andi has created a set of twelve illustrations to celebrate the Royal Shakespeare Company's 50th season. Here is Hamlet . Yorick...

"I’m not claiming that all films have four acts"

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Film Let me ruin films for you. Here's an old blog post from Kristen Thompson on the subject of turning points in film narrative, in ...

a 50-year-old "opinionated Everyman"

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Books Lost Conan Doyle book to be published : "The Narrative of John Smith was written when Conan Doyle was 23, and just a few year...

based on a Singer sewing machine

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Museums Ian visits Kew Bridge Steam Museum and finds a Steam Punk exhibition which includes this rather amazing Edwardian K9 based on a...

Much Ado About Nothing (Classic Radio Theatre).

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It’s with a certain inevitability that since David Tennant’s returned to Benedick at the Wyndham Theatre, AudioGo would rerelease his first ...

an ensemble that would later underpin the BBC’s prime time schedule

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Radio It’s with a certain inevitability that since David Tennant’s returned to Benedick at the Wyndham Theatre, AudioGo would rerelease hi...

that other co-dependant, emotionally stunted, dysfunctional group dynamic

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“Lord knows what Amy’s giving birth to, if it’s River or the Time Lord child or something else (assuming they're not the same thing). ...