Almost Hamlet:
Ophelia (2018).

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Film When this adaptation of Lisa Klein's novel was announced in 2016, it seemed initially like something of an outlier given that t...

Heinz 57.

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Food Genuinely the first occasion when I heard the phrase "Heinz 57" was in relation to a mongrel dog which a friend of a frie...
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The Seventeenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books One of those books which is so readable there's a loss when it inevitably ends, especially since, having been published in 1982,...

What Is A Weblog? A Proposal.

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Life Just over, my god, fifteen years ago, a friend introduced me to a book publishers who were looking for someone to write an introducti...

A chronological list of available Royal Shakespeare Company productions and where to watch them.

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Theatre  is ephemeral.  Records often exist. There will be programmes. Costumes kept in archives along with photographs, annotated scrip...
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A Thousand Observations on Film Art.

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Film The utterly superb, Observations on film art, by film theorists Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell has reached its thousandth post ....

Is Taylor Swift gay?

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Music As I let the new Swift album roll over me in waves, I've been seeking wild interpretations of the lyrics. Come on board this ...

Dan Martin RIP.

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TV The NME reports that journalist and screenwriter Dan Martin has died, he was 41 . The cause of death has not been made public. That N...

"Oh I won't have it. I'm going to fight it until the bitter end."

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TV BBC Archive has posted another massive collection of clips, Eccentrics, enthusiasts and other characters , featuring the kinds of peopl...

Death of a Fandom.

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TV Yes, I know Taylor Beyonced an album last night ( or Faux Beyonce since there were only lyric videos and it was announced a few hours...

The tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming.

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Life This old BBC article from 2017 bubbled up to the surface of my pocket recommendations and although some of it feels like hogwash, I ...

Emojipedia.

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Social Media The Empojipedia is a Rosetta stone of digital symbolic communication, showing how various software companies has bent their ...

Drawing speed.

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Art Local Liverpool artist Colette Lilley has opened a YouTube channel to showcase her skills through time-lapse photography. Her intr...

"Who is the most-famous person you have a photo with?"

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Life This tweet meme has been knocking around for a few days and I haven't had an answer. As a rule, I've tended to avoid meetin...

"Why couldn't it be that day?"

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Film 'The world is in a state of turmoil' : why time-loop movies resonate in 2020 . Short piece from The Guardian about how time ...

Richard II in New York.

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Theatre Because Shakespeare in the Park is cancelled this year, WNYC in New Tork have recorded a radio version and it's available to d...

Romola on Directing.

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Film It would be remiss of me not to notice that while Romola Garai waits to play the fourteenth Doctor (or whatever - who knows how man...

Be Kind Rewind.

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Video   Few YouTube channels come nicher than Be Kind Rewind which investigates the winners of the best actress categories at the Oscars,...

The Sixteenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books Mark Kermode recommended this after an interview on the film review show when all Richard Dreyfus wanted to talk about was what a sh...

Ebi Obegbuna's Wind Verses Polygamy.

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TV Earl Cameron and a lost play. John Wyver writes extensively about the lost recording of writer Ebi Obegbuna's play Wind Verses Po...