The eighty or so best films of the 21st century and some others.

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Film Best films of a thing listicles aren't usually something to become enraged by. People have opinions, I have opinions those opinio...

The Gloria Bell Soundtrack Album.

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Film Sebastián Lelio's Gloria Bell is a pretty good English language remake of the director's own 2013 film Gloria, this time star...

New BBC Archive pages launch.

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TV The BBC have officially launched their relaunch of their archive pages with a long press release stressing the thousands of clips, man...

"Gotta get up, gotta out ..."

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Music Oh so that's why the oft played Harry Nilson song in the Netflix dramedy Russian Doll seems so familiar. Good grief.

The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller: Volume One.

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Audio Barring anniversary and special releases, of all the Big Finish Doctors, Eighth has had the most linear of release schedules rarely ...

The BBC and World War Two.

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History The History of the BBC pages have been updated with a huge archive of material from World War II in which corporation staff and ot...

"If we fight like animals, we die like animals!"

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TV Details have been announced for the fourth quarter Doctor Who blu-ray release and it's to be season 26, Sylvester McCoy's fin...

Oh Terry. :(

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TV There's not a lot more that can be added to the tributes to Terrance Dicks, one the key architects on Doctor Who, whose death was...

Art in Bath.

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Art The BBC Archive pages have been updated with this silent footage of the Bath Academy of Art. The material covers all the areas you...

Six-Five-Oh.

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Politics As you probably know, one the few podcasts I listen to all year round is the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, in which Nate Silv...

The War Master: Rage of the Time Lords.

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Audio This boxset had me at a disadvantage. With the rapidity of Big Finish's releases it's impossible to keep across everything ...

"Hello American People."

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Comedy Here's Simon Amstell on a US talk show doing his material about gay orgies and bondage rooms. Bless his heart.

The Two Popes.

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Film This looks fascinating. Two incredible actors in bespoke roles, an important moment in the spiritual history of the planet and des...

Annie & Camille.

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Film I've just turned off the John Huston directed original version of Annie, a film I haven't otherwise seen all of the way throu...

Seinfeld: The Vampire ...

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TV Enjoy this old SNL Seinfeld parody from 1988 which turned up on their feed at the weekend back when Sarah Michelle Gellar hosted. Th...

WQXR.

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Music  The other night I discovered a new classic music station out of New York , WQXR . It's wall to wall music broken only by local n...

Here is your SIB monthly news update.

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Life As I mentioned in passing in a Tate Liverpool exhibition review , some time in May the bowel on the left side of my crotch made a bid...

Rip Tide.

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Books The first of the Eighth Doctor novellas published by TELOS, Rip Tide is also the most accessible. Told from the convincing point of...

The Legacy of Time.

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Audio The Legacy of Time is Big Finish's giant 20th anniversary Whogasm, an epic six-part story set across time and space bringing tog...

The Sugababes pull into a garage.

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Music Some quick news while I wait for the Muller Hearings. The original Sugababes lineup are reforming to celebrate their 20th anniversa...