Smile.

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TV Yesterday, for the first time in a hundred and thirty five years, the National Grid was able to deliver enough power to consumers wit...

Screen Select Lives!

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Film As you know, I recently signed again with Lovefilm-by-post having become tired with the tedious wait for the few films I actually wan...

Elizabeth Wurtzel on Girls.

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TV For the Washington Post. She saw a lot of herself in there : "I am scared of my 20s. That decade took me down. My Room 13 is be...

My Favourite Film of 1903.

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Film  Some brief notes on genre. Again. The Great Train Robbery is popularly thought of as the first Western or at least a pre-cursor...

Romola on Feminism. Lot's of other things.

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Film Eve Wiseman talks to the next Doctor and recounts this horrifying anecdote about the filming of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights : ...

The Pilot.

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TV "She was fat. I'd fatted her." Last night I watched the Adam Sandler film 50 First Dates. Most of Sandler's oeu...

The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works.

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Books Someone should send a copy of this to Germaine Greer, whom as I discovered a couple of weeks ago doesn't believe that any of Sha...

Cheek by Jowel's The Winter's Tale coming to the iPlayer.

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Theatre The iPlayer's commitment to filmed Shakespeare productions continues with Cheek by Jowel's The Winter's Tale being upl...

Emmerdale: Their Finest Hour.

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Books Lately I've been linking to the old Eighth Doctor novel posts in Twitter which prompted Allyn Gibson to reveal to me that Lance...
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Not That Kind Of Girl.

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Books Lena Dunham's memoir is almost the exact opposite to Lauren Graham's.  Anyone wanting to discover how GIRLS is made should...

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between.

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Books At two hundred pages for £16.99 and a pretty large font size, the RRP on this memoir is a bit steep so I ordered a copy through the ...

Romola Garai could still be the next Doctor.

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TV The Bookseller announces that Romola is to star in an adaptation of some book I've never heard of, let alone read : "Romola ...

My Favourite Film of 1904

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Film One of the questions I frequently ask myself (not that it keeps me up at night because there are plenty of other nightmares and anx...

Checking In.

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Life Let's check in. Find above today's trailer for the next series of Doctor Who. Two weeks to go and apart from the recent ...

My Favourite Film of 1905.

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Film  In tribute to The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach ( which you can see here ), here’s a sto...

Shakespeare & Me.

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Books During my recent visit to Portobello Road, I stopped in at The Notting Hill Bookshop, the bookshop which appeared in the film Nottin...

The Love Actually Sequel is for charity.

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Film As you will have noticed from the many click bait articles which have slipstreamed in its stead containing what amount to a synopsi...

My Favourite Film of 1906.

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Film After last week’s early sound experiment, here’s a colour filmmaking system from 1906. George Albert Smith’s documentary Tartans...

Jenny Slate on Chris Evans.

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Film On Monday, The Guardian's G2 published an astonishingly invasive interview with Jake Gyllenhaal in which the interviewer asked t...

Hadley Freeman on Love Actually.

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Film After a slightly confused (slightly?) column about trans identity at the weekend ( see this Twitter thread for key objections ), Had...