With Mary Shelley.

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Audio Well, then right then, here we go then, after all these it’s time to finally listen to all of the Eighth Doctor’s Big Finish audio s...

Geoff Boyle on Digital "Film"

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Film DoP Geoff Boyle (Wallander, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li) on shooting with digital cameras and how they've replaced ce...

The Defence of Monaco.

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Film Grace of Monaco is in no way the disaster you've been told it is. It's just that it tosses out historical accuracy in favour...

Soup Safari #15: Mushroom & Spinach at Cornerhouse Manchester.

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Lunch. £4.25. 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5N. Phone: 0161 200 1500. Website .

Creative Commons.

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Politics Diamond Geezer visits Parliament. The view from the public galleries : "I really shouldn't need to tell you all this,...

The Oresteia on 4oD.

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Theatre Further to my review of Channel 4's The Celebration , glancing through 4oD the other night, I was surprised and pleased to s...

My Favourite Film of 2011.

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Film Here's some background as to how this list has been compiled. Firstly I sat at the computer and typed up a list of all the fi...

Frozen Rock.

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Film The instrumental version of Fixer Upper from the ULTIMATE EDITION soundtrack to the film Frozen: Is Fraggle Rock isn't it?

Oh Fant4stic.

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Film Fantastic Four trailer, oh sorry Fant4stic trailer (eye roll), in "not as shit as we were expecting" shocker. It's n...

Winston Churchill’s funeral in HD on BBC Parliament.

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TV This Friday, BBC Parliament will be broadcasting the state funeral of Churchill from the original archive film masters. At the About t...

"Le professeur Moriarty chez Sherlock Holmes."

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Film William Gillette: Five ways he transformed how Sherlock Holmes looks and talks : "A 1916 silent movie featuring Sherlock Holme...

Ariane Sherine interviews Charlie Brooker.

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TV Sherine and Brooker are old friends and colleagues so the conversation enters some surprisingly personal areas : "We met when we w...

Happy Burns Night! (from one of them).

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The Pre-Gap. Etc.

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Music The Guardian's Jude Rogers lifts the groove on hidden tracks : "CDs allowed the inclusion of a song in the “pregap” – the s...

"The truth is much more mundane"

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About Suw Charman-Anderson debunks five social media myths : "The idea of the “digital native” is a pervasive one, telling us that y...

Carrie Gracie on her first year in China.

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Journalism China editor on a journey to reveal : "For a self-confessed 'China obsessive', the role of the BBC's first C...

How do you cope?

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Life Enough, enough now. Well, no, actually there's never enough. I doesn't end ever. It just keeps going and going and going ...

"No studio would make a movie like this one at all"

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Film Focus is key to the most subtly powerful moment in All The President’s Men: "All The President’s Men tells the story of the Wa...

Scooped.

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Film Nine years since its original release, eight years since I imported a copy from Sweden and reviewed it on the blog , five years sin...

My Favourite Film of 2012.

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Film By 2012, I'd pretty much said goodbye to visiting the cinema on a regular basis. Too costly, too many idiots in the audience...