Before the Flood.

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TV Let’s look into the future. At a certain point what looks like a generally positive review is going to take a turn for the worse. I...

Ant-Man and the Wasp.

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Film One of the best moments in the Ant-Man film is the look of wonder in Evangeline Lilly's eyes on seeing the Wasp suit. That look ...

Jennifer Lawrence's Marshmallows.

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"I don't wash my hands after I go to the bathroom."

My Favourite Film of 1978.

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Film Right, let's talk about Star Wars too. But first:  1978.  Much of this list has worked from the rule of slotting films into ...

Less Furious Road.

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Film The Guardian's interview with George Miller has an interesting titbit about the preview process of the best action film of the ye...

Now, See Hear, Doctor.

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TV When writing about Doctor Who's Under The Lake yesterday, I suggested it might be a good idea for the BBC to make a signed edition ...

“Girly-girl”

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Film I think I'm just going to keep posting these quotes because something has to change. Whilst it's true that Raimi's Spide...

Under The Lake.

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TV  At the risk of sounding like the demented and tormented Brad Pitt detective at the end of the movie Seven, “What’s in the baaaaax????...

On Display.

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Art It's well known that a vast percentage of a museum or gallery's collection isn't on display either because the archive is ...

Arena's Night and Day.

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TV As part of its fortieth anniversary celebrations, the BBC's Arena strand will be setting up an internet stream which utilises the s...

Out Class and Online.

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TV When the official Doctor Who twitter feed knocked out this at six o'clock this evening pretty much everyone was excited: We hav...

Rufford Old Hall.

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A fine Tudor building, the home for stories of romance, wealth and 500 years of Hesketh family history. Be wowed by the Tudor Great Hall...

My Favourite Film of 1979.

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Film Glancing backwards through this list as we creep ever closer to the moment when I'll be choosing films released before the year...

On Doctor Who ratings.

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TV The consolidated "ratings" for Doctor Who's The Magician's Apprentice are out: Doctor Who ep1 consolidates to 6.5...

More on Women in Film.

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Film The Observer this weekend ran a couple of pieces about women in film which underscore, just as this tiff Q&A does , the huge gap ...

The Witch's Familiar.

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TV Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. There’s not a lot more you can say about The Witch's Familiar even though I expect I will as t...

Doctor Who Speculation.

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TV I've just tweeted the following but I'm putting a version of it here for posterity. Jenna Coleman's not listed in the c...

Elizabeth Wurtzel on the BRCA mutation.

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Health Something I had absolutely no idea about. From the NYT : "The BRCA mutation entered the Jewish community in Poland some 500...

Peanutized.

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Film The new Peanuts film has a website which offers you the chance to produce a version of yourself in the new threedification of Charl...

Financing Female-Led Films.

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Film Find embedded above a TIFF Industry discussion about the financing of female-led films, encompassing what's gone wrong in the p...