AMBUSHED BY UNEXPECTED EMOTION (ps idea stolen from this guy)
ok so i only just got to watch it, and i kinda knew the deal already – except for the music involved – bcz it first aired in the US two years ago (and ppl talked abt it a lot)[…]

Good coverage of the MomArt fire of a few months back from the Guardian here: MomArt don’t come out of this terribly well.
There’s the text of an interview with Michael Craig-Martin, in which he comes off as being a reasonable sort of fe[…]

kid-lit comment: wicked stepmothers vs the merely ill-advised: (mild spoilers alert)
Hattie’s aunt in Tom’s Midnight Garden is classic fairytale wicked – unstintingly cruel and cold toward Hattie, her orphan niece, who in her lonel[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
25: A Matter Of Life And Death
Martin Skidmore says: This has a great setup and it expands on it with imagination and extraordinary flair. It starts with a wonderful conversation between sexy aircraft coordinator Kim Hunter and doome[…]

(apologies for slight hiatus)
The Ripped Backsides of Nougat City (or Where Not to Go When Yr Car Can?t Wink). Dr Vick’s Golf’s clignotants aren’t working so most of the day we scour the endless lookalike trading estates on the edg[…]