The Films I've Watched This Year #10

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Film If this list looks short, it's because last weekend was filled with television and ballet (on television). On Saturday night I...

Shadalog.

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TV The Internet Archive recently uploaded back issues of what was one of the best sci-fi magazine around, Starlog, which ended publication...

Ruthin Gaol.

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Film Filming of Suffragette continues, with the second unit rolling into Denbighshire : "Camera crews descended on Ruthin Gaol on M...

Intentional Partridge.

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TV Chris Davies, tv writer , emailed a bunch of corporate presenters and asked them to read quotes from Alan Partridge. These are the r...

Like Ives.

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Music The Connecticut studio of composer Charles Ives has been painstakingly recreated at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Wash...

UK DVD release for Venonica Mars?

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TV No, I still haven't seen the film, but an interesting doodah's cropped up at the BBFC website in the shape of the classificatio...

Radio 4's Hamlet will be in the Afternoon Drama slot.

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Genuinely surprised. Here is Hamlet spread across the whole week in the prestigious 2:15pm slot in five parts (an act per day?) starting nex...

My Onion Biography.

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Life The story of ... certainly most private views ... "Having already spent a considerable amount of time quietly examining items ...

The man of stealing cameras.

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Technology At a pinch I'd say I enjoyed this more than Man of Steel. Certainly feels more like the Superman I "know", the...

The Davies/Gardner era.

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TB Time once again to link to another Doctor Who essay by Philip Sandifer, on this occasion because he is one of the few to investigate an...

"We used to be friends."

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Film When I backed the Veronica Mars project, I was weary and cautious and in the UK so I chipped in $5 so as to feel like I was part of t...

A viewing order For The Fast and the Furious franchise.

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Film Having very much enjoyed Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow, not to mention his subsequent Fast & Furious films, I have consid...

The Films I've Watched This Year #9

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Film Surprise. Since this weekend I've decided to binge on Orange is the New Black and some ballet in the evenings, here we are on ...

Shakespeare at the BBC: More of The Hollow Crown?

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At Illuminations, sorry @illuminations, noticed a good case of burying the headline in a Michael Billington column about BBC radio's ad...

"Sarah Polley, She Likes To Tell Stories..."

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Film One of the hidden gems amongst the morass of God and food channels clogging up Roku and other streaming boxes is the one marked w...

Suffragette crewed.

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Film The IMDb page for Suffragette has now been fully uploaded (assuming it's accurate) . Really, really excellent crew. Here are a ...

Seinfeld Without Seinfeld.

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Nothing from LJ Frezza on Vimeo . TV "Scenes from "Seinfeld" (1989-1998) where nothing happens. A supercut of empty sh...

How to also abandon books.

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Books Last week, which is about as exact as time frame as I'm able to give you since, as is so often the case when you take major life...

Suffragette begins shooting.

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Film What looks like the official solicitation for Suffragette has been uploaded to industry PR website Show Films First , including a sho...

Fargotten the female?

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TV Much as I'm very pleased to see a television series based on the film Fargo * and that it features Martin Freeman, because Martin F...