Tagline: The best STAR WARS film in twenty years... and that includes the OT Special Editions...

Overall Verdict? Not Your Children's Prequel Movie...
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Why is it that the only good TV these days is on BBC4?

Probably because there's an election on...
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Just to try to keep things rolling, another jotted TV review, this time of Heartless, last night's one-off comedy-drama on ITV. In America, I guess they'd call this a TV movie.

This was a largely shameless slice of Highland whimsy, combining the basic plot of Bill Forsyth's Local Hero with the recorded phenomenon of people who find their tastes ( Read more... )

Well, Christmas is over, or at least, we're into the slow afterglow of long lies and cold collations.

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Dear Santa Claus,Thank you for...
One new Duvet
The whisky - 1981 North Port, from a distillery that is sadly no more. Lovely stuff
A pile of books, comprising, amongst others:Murder on the Leviathan, by Boris Akunin - the second in the superb ( Read more... )

Gakked from Ams:

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play!
Step 2: Pick a line or two from the first 10 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from!
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly!
P.S: using a search engine is cheating.

1: I’ll tell you a secret - I ( Read more... )

I'm impressed. Last night, the BBC managed to produce an evening of, if not entirely unmissable television, certainly stimulating, challenging and interesting viewing.

8pm-9pm: The Culture Show, BBC2. Not perfect, but still, not bad. Beginning with a fairly damning look at the death-by-slow-starvation of Scottish Opera, which some junior minister ( Read more... )

"If Proust had drunk McEwans, it's the kind of thing he'd've written about"

... because Blackpool is probably the best thing on TV since... oh, Cold Lazarus, probably

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Just a test. If my previous experience of blogging is anything to go by, it's likely that I'll go back to a good old-fashioned webpage with my own simple html markup fairly quickly. What, exactly, is the advantage of this place? I'm still not clear - but I'm willing to be persuaded ( Read more... )