We Need To Talk About Steve Rogers (again).

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Film Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Captain America: Civil War is awesome. That cultural barometer Rotten Tomatoes cur...

"If you read me, we're going to attempt time travel."

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Art The biannual press conference announcing the content of the Liverpool Biennial was held yesterday but I couldn't attend due to a w...

Soup Safari #64:
Thai Chicken Soup at British Home Stores.

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Late Lunch. £3.95. British Home Stores, Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre, 57 Market St, Manchester M1 1WN. Phone: 0161 834 1151. ...

The Truth.

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Life Usually the route of my walk to work just bypasses St George's Hall, but I made a special detour so that I could walk across the ...

My Favourite Film of 1949.

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Film James Cooray Smith has been kind enough to write a guest post about my favourite film of 1949: The Third Viewing The first tim...

Friend from the Future.

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TV Bill? Well it is Shakespeare's birthday I suppose. Evening, and there we are, new companion Bill played by Pearl Mackie. Isn...

Shakespeare at the BFI.

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Theatre The BFI now has a YouTube playlist of thirty odd Shakespeare related videos including the above essay about Shakespeare adaptat...

Speke Hall.

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Speke Hall is a rare Tudor timber-framed manor house in a most unusual setting on the banks of the River Mersey. Restored and brought back...

Card Catalogues.

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Books The Folger Shakespeare Library has still retained its card catalogue. In an age when "everything is online", more often t...

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TV Find above the trailer for the The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses with Camberwell Bandersnatch's Richard III foregrounded. P...

My Favourite Film of 1950.

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Film One of the benefits of my MA Screen Studies course ten years ago was that many of the modules on offer were multi-discipline, or ra...

The Hardmans' House.

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Explore the contrasting sides of this house: the neat, professional, spacious business rooms and the cluttered, cramped living quarters o...

Topless of the Pops.

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Music   The All Saints have given a typically brilliant interview for the BBC in which they talk about how they had to deal with sexism in ...

"were firmly told that the reconstruction must be exceptionally basic"

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TV A blast from the past. The Doctor Who Restoration Team website has been updated with material about the final set of dvd releases inc...

Findable.

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Film Oh hello, Findable.TV . One of the inherent problems with subscribing to three different streaming services, Amazon Prime, Netflix ...

My Favourite Film of 1951.

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Film As a test, I decided to enter the most famous phrase from The Day The Earth Stood Still, "Klaatu barada nikto", into an a...

"distance in time"

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Theatre For The New York Review of Books, Stephen Greenblatt writes the universality of Shakespeare : "Even at this distance in tim...

The Deer Stalker.

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Books Sometimes Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell's episode of Elementary was broadcast in the UK last night and although I didn't sp...