The Films I've Watched This Year #5

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Film What a long week. For various reasons this has been a very long week, mostly due to contracting the man flu late on Wednesday whic...

Ballet Attention Span.

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Dance You may have heard that archival footage of Margot Fonteyn leading in Sleeping Beauty in 1956 thought lost for years has recently r...

This American Valentine's Day.

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That Day Yesterday's International doodle on Google's homepage was this cute if otherwise entirely pointless chocolate box interac...

Ellen.

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People The comments underneath the YouTube version ironically provide a good illustration of many of things Ellen Page says in her spee...

Flappo Bird.

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Games As per usual because I don't have a smart phone, I didn't discover Flappy Bird until it was taken down. Lucky I can still p...

Cartoon Cocker.

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Film The Playlist offers this trailer for the Criterion Collection edition of Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr Fox featuring an anim...

The Prince of Jutland explained.

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Gabriel Axel, the director of Hamlet reimagining The Prince of Jutland died recently and The Guardian has an obituary which includes this nu...

This Blog Post (***).

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Psychology Clash Magazine , which I recently began following online, has decided to revise how it provides a score with their reviews. Th...

‘Like an avatar?’

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TV If I hadn't been working I would certainly have been at the Cornerhouse in Manchester yesterday to see Jeanette Winterson interview...

"Feminists don't have a sense of humor"

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Music Back in 2008, Nellie McKay's TED "talk" consisted of a short set of her songs including the above, Mother of Pearl....

The Films I've Watched This Year #4

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Film Now that these week in film reviews are becoming the regular occurrence I didn't want them to be, I'm starting to think abo...

Dawn of the Rise of the Battle of the Conquest of the Escape Beneath ...

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Nature You've probably seen this already, but it's hilarious, so here it is again. It's staff at Ueno zoo in Tokyo practising...

"they pay no attention to poetry"

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Film The YouTube channel Cinema Sins might catalogue the odd mistake in blockbusters, but Moveguide, profiled by The New Yorker is a fait...

"She's got the kind of look that defies..."

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Film With Gravity soon to be released on shiny disc and hopefully receive the best picture award at the Oscars, The Guardian has an inter...

Tokyo Sky.

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Fashion When she was a teenager, Jennifer Sky , the model and actress whom most of us will remember for Cleopatra 2525 or Marc Evan's M...

CGI Pat.

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TV "Get ready for one of the world's most beloved characters as you've never seen him before..." Yes, in some cheap lo...

Delpy's Road.

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Film Julie Delpy's next directed film is a period drama which sounds really exciting : "The film is based on a story by Delpy a...

Model eats designer bag on New York City subway.

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Science Fiction: New Death.

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Art Well, then . "A major contemporary science fiction exhibition will be at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in ...

Three Seashells.

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Film Typeset of the Future collates and identifies the various fonts which appear in science fiction films and begins its trawl with 2001...