I’m hooked on Pinterest, the photo-sharing website for people who don’t take pictures. Pinterest is for magpies who enjoy browsing the internet and assembling virtual “boards” themed around anything from adorable pets to coronary-inducing pâtisseries. While Twitter’s mission appears to… Continue Reading →
“Why doesn’t every Grand Slam start on a Sunday?” As ever, super-smooth tennis presenter John Inverdale was the man posing the provocative and insightful questions on the first day of the French Open 2012. But something was different. The year’s… Continue Reading →
No previous knowledge of equestrian gymnastics is required to enjoy Lisa Aschan’s impressive feature debut, She-Monkeys. Sport is the backdrop for the simmering rivalry and powerful attraction between Swedish teenagers Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) and Cassandra (Linda Molin). But this ambiguous… Continue Reading →
The Schadenfreude factor is a lot more fun than The X Factor – and it’s a Simon Cowell-free zone. “The 70s are remembered as a golden age of pop music”, announced presenter Dominic Sandbrook in the final part of his… Continue Reading →
Don’t ask about the app. I wasn’t the first person to enquire whether Step Outside Guides would be coming soon to the iTunes Store. But it turns out that co-creator Margie Skinner has problems just navigating her way around an… Continue Reading →
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pBm9keEBAY&w=560&h=315] Beware teachers who come brandishing the works of Balzac. When I was at school we gave short shrift to the mild-mannered French mistress who tried to make us plough through Eugénie Grandet. The 11- and 12-year-old pupils at… Continue Reading →
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqXuw9HNpxg&w=560&h=315] Dominik Moll’s The Monk is so redolent with Gothic gloom, overweening piety and suppressed lust that it’s almost in danger of self-combusting. It’s held together by a towering performance from Vincent Cassel, who played Natalie Portman’s tyrannical mentor… Continue Reading →
Earlier this week a news report claimed that LOCOG has “barely put a foot wrong” in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics. If you’re one of the thousands who lost out in the Great Ticketing Fiasco of 2011, you… Continue Reading →
Recently I wrote that the BBC appears to be run by a bunch of 70s obsessives with dubious taste in music. Little did I suspect that BBC2 was about to join the party and — in the words of TV… Continue Reading →
La Grande Illusion celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, but Jean Renoir’s First World War drama isn’t really showing its age. The digitally restored DVD I watched was refreshingly free of all the snap, crackle and pop I used to… Continue Reading →
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