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Month: March 2007

  • Inland Empire

    If you ask me to describe the plot of Inland Empire, David Lynch’s latest, I’m going to struggle. If you’d previously seen either Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive and thought that they were weird, then you ain’t seen nothing yet. The plot revolves around Laura Dern’s character, who’s trying to revitalise her film career with…

  • Mobile Tariffs

    So I’m just checking my mobile phone tariff with Orange to make sure that I’m not paying too much. As usual, all the good offers are either only available to either new subscribers (for which read, people who move networks), or me, if I wanted to take out an 18 month contract. I took out…

  • Radio Stats Misuse

    I watched Chris Addison’s enjoyable The Hunt For Middle England documentary over the weekend. A little long, but otherwise an entertaining piece. However, at one point, having been told that a town in Derbyshire might best represent “Middle England”, Chris pitched up at BBC Radio Derby to broadcast a request on their morning show for…

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  • Billie Piper’s “First” Interview

    Who knew that the former songstress, former wife of Chris Evans, and now very successful actress, only got around to giving her first interview today?

  • Cowboy Junkies

    I missed the Cowboy Junkies when they visited in January, so I had to catch this very acoustic set at the Union Chapel in Islington earlier this evening. The Union Chapel itself is an octagonal auditorium dominated by a massive pulpit and is still used as a church. As the event was unreserved seating, and…

  • Shaun the Sheep Scheduling

    I wrote about Shaun the Sheep over there in the right hand column a few days ago, but the more I watch it, the more I think that it’s terribly “wasted” in a 3.45pm slot. That’s not to say that it shouldn’t go out at 3.45pm, but it’s very cleverly and wittily done, and I…

  • Hanging on the Telephone

    The “Participation TV” story isn’t going away anytime soon. Today’s Guardian has another full page on the scandal and an editorial – Hanging on the Telephone – to boot. I’m quietly (well not that quietly) proud about the editorial since I think, in some small way, I may have informed it a little. Just because…

  • The Illusionist

    So here’s a film I can talk about openly. I’m a bit of a sucker for films about magic, and Ricky Jay was a consultant on The Illusionist so I had to see it. We’ve had quite a long for this film, since it’s similar in story to The Prestige which came out around the…

  • Sunshine (Part One)

    Thanks to Gia, I saw Sunshine last night at a bloggers’ screening. There are strange rules coming down from Fox that say I can’t “review” the film until March 26, but can say how much I liked (or otherwise) the film in the meantime. So this is just a trailer of a review until I…

  • Training Ride #1

    Since I’ve decided to do this British Cyclosportive along the route of Stage 1 of this year’s Tour de France, I thought that I better start getting into shape and putting a few miles (or kilometres) under my belt. In retrospect, as I sit hear on my sofa with my legs up, going all the…

  • “TV In Crisis”

    I’m not sure how quickly the TV companies will be back making revenue from audience “interaction,” but today’s front page of The Mirror, while perhaps a little OTT, must make for disturbing reading.