"characterised by fluid narrative"

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Film I've been hesitant to mention the discovery of the lost "Alfred Hitchcock" film because the coverage has been generally...

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"She tapped it lightly."

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Journalism A college journalism class set themselves the task of creating their newspaper using twenty-year old methods . That meant embr...

"Beavis and Butt-Head were taking the place of VJs"

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TV Mike Judge on the Return of 'Beavis and Butt-Head' . Most interesting element is that they're branching out from just snig...

mainly because it became Douglas Adams’s problem instead

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TV It’s quite apt that Big Brother’s back in a couple of weeks, since Gwen’s making another video diary. No mention of the Doctor this ...

"Well, here I am ..."

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Film Have look at this synopsis for a new film by Cary Fukunaga and thinking about what it reminds you of ... "It concerns an assas...

“Baby fish mouth?”

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Meme Let's return to some fundamental principles. [ via , via ] 1. Movie you love with a passion. When Harry Met Sally. “Baby fis...

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"Arrest and Trial"

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TV I'm currently reading The Great Television Series by Jeff Rovin , a eighties book charting the history of heroes on US television u...

reverse psychology

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Elsewhere Just as a counterweight to yesterday's "triumph", the night before I lucked into being the first person leaving a ...

The List:
14. Joke printed in The Guardian.

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Elsewhere A couple of days ago, The Guardian printed a photograph of a rather uncomfortable looking President Obama and Republican Congres...

"we’ve done six extra episodes last year"

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TV SARAH-JANE.tv has the transcript from a Q&A with Anjli Mohindra who plays Rani in The Sarah Jane Adventures from the weekend's ...

"take it"

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Blog! Anna Pickard's blog's tenth birthday is this weekend and she's been listing, amongst other things, what she's learn...

browsing for vinyl

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Film Watching The Man Who Fell To Earth for the first time this evening (an experience I expect we'll return to at some point) who sh...

Almost Doctor Who:
Astonish Me

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Film I've just watched the new Stephen Poliakoff film. It's called Astonish Me , it's about seven minutes long (including cred...

"We're all complicit."

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Journalism You might have missed this because it's in an Observer Magazine interview with Jude Law , but here he is on the phone hacki...

evening entertainment

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TV Here, then, should you be interested, are the thirty seconds cut from the UK broadcast of Torchwood . It's a double sex scene with...

This Blog's 10th Birthday.

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About It has been ten years since I began posting here and to celebrate I asked Annette , who last interviewed me five years ago about t...

Malcolm Hulke or Don Houghton had to find something to keep Jon Pertwee busy

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TV Well, that was fifty odd minutes of drama. Another of old Doctor Who’s elements, from way back when stories were many episodes long ...

a whole six months quicker

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Film Breaking a release routine which has lasted for what seems like a decade and presumably thanks to its wacking great success in the US...