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Much better than I'd been led to expect - a nice, taut thriller with plenty of tension and suspense without implausible plotting or ridi...

Watched this remarkable film on iPlayer (from BBC4) last night. The story of a hispanic-american musician and songwriter whose career fail...

I went to this rather interesting set of talks at the Royal College of Physicians, which included a tour round the garden. One of the high...

More than fifteen years ago I worked in the mobile satellite services industry, helping to develop a handheld satellite phone...

Here - and there is an associated page (in German!) about financing cooperative housing, which looks worth a read too.

A really weird one, this. Focusing on the process of adapting a book for a film, and illustrating the difficulties of this rather well, it...

Robyn Davidson wants to walk across the central Australian desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with camels. She does. The end. ...

A good, serious film about a subject that I'd never heard about - the way that the Muslim community of Paris helped Jews escape from V...

I can handle the odd romcom, and this one sounded like it might be tolerable. It wasn't. A trip to the dentist would be more enjoyable...

I went to this . I can't remember the last time I found a public event of this kind so interesting and so much fun. Fantastic speakers, ...

Six months ago I didn't know any companies pursuing this opportunity, even though some of them have been at it for a while and have succ...

Not what you'd call a feelgood film but no less perfect for that. The dynamics of interlocking families in what looks to be a working-cl...

A feel-good film that didn't actually make me feel all that good - wooden two dimensional characters, leaden dialogue, contrived scrip...

Another disappointment from Terry Gilliam. Visually arresting, disappointing in terms of plot, characters, emotional engagement...pretty m...

I really enjoyed this, even though I'd recently seen the TV production. It's a brilliant play and the students really did it justi...

A really enjoyable romp of a film, with great sets and scenery, super cast, lots of good verbal and visual jokes...what's not to like? ...

I enjoyed this book, but I'm not sure who I would want to know that I had (apart from GCHQ, of course, who know all about what I am read...

I went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2014. Instead of rushing back at the end I stayed for the weekend and had a great time. I we...

I loved the book, and this film is only tolerable. The structural complexities were always going to be hard to film. Watching it on a tablet...

A muddle without form, point or aesthetic value. Five men (I think it's five - it's a bit hard to tell) blunder in to each other in ...