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Video: Pilot season gets a very modern makeover
Monday 22 April 2013
First Netflix created its own on-demand drama series, now Amazon-owned LoveFilm is piloting 14 would-be shows. Are we watching the future?
Go Goa Gone: Bollywood makes slew of zombie movies
Friday 05 April 2013
Bollywood is branching out from its traditional song-and-dance dramas and slapstick comedies with its first zombie films which filmmakers hope will entice younger crowds back to Indian films from Hollywood's living dead.
The Village writer Peter Moffat: It's vital not to imbue period dramas with a Ready Brek glow
Tuesday 26 March 2013
One of the country's most prominent screenwriters has complained that British period dramas too often disregard the lives of ordinary people.
What's worse than finding a mouse in your flat?
Friday 22 March 2013
Student houses aren’t always in the best nick, but vermin aren’t the only things you need to worry about. Eleanor Doughty discovered the one thing worse than finding a mouse behind her dresser...
Film review: Neighbouring Sounds (15)
Thursday 21 March 2013
The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho has made a haunting and enigmatic feature debut in Neighbouring Sounds. For much of its running time it plays like a weird soap opera without a plot. Set in the middle-class suburb of Recife on the northeastern coast of Brazil, it casually depicts routines of humdrum domestic life that nevertheless imply some sinister meaning beneath. What it is will not be revealed until almost the last scene.
DVD review: Room 237
Saturday 09 March 2013
Was The Shining Stanley Kubrick's way of admitting that he faked footage of the Apollo moon landings?
Films of the Week: Day-Lewis drills deep to arrive at core of US spirit in There Will Be Blood
Friday 08 March 2013
Thursday
What it’s like to live with autism: new simulation Auti-Sim gives mother a sense of her daughter's life
Thursday 07 March 2013
I spend a lot of time wondering what life is really like for my daughter, who has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. Watching her navigate the day-to-day is one thing: comprehending the sources of her meltdowns and frequent distress from the inside is something else entirely.
Last night's viewing: Louie, Fox; The Following, Sky Atlantic
Wednesday 23 January 2013
For most British viewers, Louie’s reputation will have long preceded the thing itself. It runs something like this: groundbreaking low-budget comedy, impeccably free of interference from the suits and trading on the poor schlub candour of its online begetter – Louis CK, a comedian of cult standing.
Also showing: Jiro Dreams of Sushi, American Mary and May I Kill U?
Sunday 13 January 2013
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Simonsig faces 'horrible' debut in transition to Festival fences
Thursday 20 December 2012
Conditions could hardly be more inimical to the brilliance that identified Simonsig as the outstanding novice hurdler of last season when he turns his attention to fences at Ascot this afternoon.
Manchester Police target 'Mr Bigs' of organised crime in dawn raids
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Police have launched a series of early morning raids against the “Mr Bigs” of organised crime.
Not such a green and pleasant land after all...
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Not such a green and pleasant land after all...
Wednesday 28 November 2012
New film Sightseers shows rural Britain at its creepiest
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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