" Every conversation with you just goes... mental. And there's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, ...

TV Usually when considering Shakespeare on the BBC in the 70s, we look towards the BBC Television Shakespeare series. Certainly it's ...

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it...

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Film For its age, Mata Hari feels like a relatively contemporary film especially in its attitude to human relationships and in featuring...

Music As a consequence of becoming ensconced with the Olympics and also cancelling my old BT email account, I've unaccountably failed ...

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Sport Kathryn Bertine is the cyclist who has led the campaign for an official women's Tour de France, a fight which is still ongoing. ...

Film Here's a rare thing. In this week's Random Roles at The AV Club, Clea Duvall talks about her guest appearance on Buffy: The ...

TV The Art of the Title finally reaches the credit sequence for My So-Called Life, of the best uses of montage in titles and theme song . ...

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Music In the middle of everything else, the astonishing musician Laura Marling has begun a podcast in which she interviews women working i...

Film As anyone who's read my Love Actually evisceration will know , my dissertation, completed nearly ten years ago this month, was ...

Travel Overnight travel has begun on the London Underground and as well as passengers, the lines seem to have been filled with journalists...

Sport Day 11. It's Day 11 already and rather like Claire Balding whenever she's trying to keep track of who won which medal and...

Film Something which is persistently annoying about film criticism, especially the sort of film criticism perpetrated in Amazon reviews ...

TV After the shock emergence of a blu-ray edition of Doctor Who's The TV Movie we awaited news of the which special features would be ...

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"You are not the only remarkable thing on this earth, Jack. Consider the jellyfish. The species turritopsis nutricula is considered t...