Cinema Paradiso: An Update.

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Film Here's the short review of Cinema Paradiso after a couple of weeks. It's worked well enough so far that I've decided to ...

August.

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Life Over the past month, I've been busy with some things, primarily a life laundry in which, for various reasons, I've had a reth...

An Apology.

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Life Back in the naughties when blogging was still a thing and phrases like "digitally artisanal" weren't being thrown aroun...
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Diana.

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History The Guardian asks, Where were you when Diana died? I was in bed. For some reason I'd woken up very early that morning, per...

"real time"

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Film Sometimes the ponies run free. Here's David Bordwell, just as I'd hoped, analysing the narrative structure of Christopher No...

Scottish Hamlet.

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TV Good grief, the BBC have announced a classic theatre broadcast for BBC Two. Oh, yes, it's Andrew Scott's recent Hamlet which i...

Lovefilm RIP.

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Film In case you were wondering this gap between blog posts is because I'm having something of a life laundry, deciding which books I ...

"I've spoken to erm ... a few ..."

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TV  This morning Jodie Whittaker gave her first broadcast interview since the news to 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny while publicising her new...
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Along Came Polly.

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TV In a break from tradition, the BBC have bothered to release the San Diego Comic Con trailer for the next bit of Doctor Who without us...

"Let's go get you a lanyard."

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TV Samira Ahmed writes for The New Statesman on the talismanic nature of lanyards : "Two 1990s television shows gave us our figureh...

Doctor Foster.

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TV The Guardian recently published a brief but excellent piece from an academic about the implications of Doctor Who companion Bill's ...

Ken's Show: Exploring the Unseen. Press launch at Tate Liverpool.

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Art Next year, Tate Liverpool celebrates its thirtieth anniversary and this morning held a press launch in one of the handling rooms, with...

Doom Coalition 4.

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Audio Now that the Capaldi era is almost done bar the shouting from manbabies about his replacement, it's time for me to catch up of t...

I Know Places.

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Music Hermione Hobby of The Guardian on her brush with celebrity as she held hands with Taylor Swift on leaving a restaurant interview : ...

We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends.

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Music Tom at Freaky Trigger's Popular section has a brilliant excavation of the "Sugababes" Freak Like Me, from its sample...

That hand, is it male or female?

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TV He's winning, it's a short match oh this is unbearable. Go Rodge. Go Rodge. Yes! Now, it's going to be now. Oh speec...

The New Whittaker.

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TV This is one of those slightly obligatory Doctor Who related posts in which you all will have seen the above trailer/announcement but ...

A Viewing Order for all of the Claire Temple episodes in the Netflix MARVEL series.

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TV Claire Temple, so winningly played by Rosario Dawson is my favourite character in the whole of the MCU, films or television. Appeari...

Literally Beaming.

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Science Every day, I find myself gaping open mouthed as what seemed like something which could only happen in the future not too long ago ...

We Need To Talk About Peter Parker.

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Film Spider-man: Homecoming is out and it was pleasure to see its gloriousness at the lunch time showing in Screen One at FACT's Pictu...