The world of Harry Potter takes on an Orwellian tone in The Order of the Phoenix, episode 5 in the Hogwarts soap, which sees the magic bureaucracy in London desperate…
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It’s Film Festival time of year, that two and a half week period when watching three films a day becomes more than shameful self-indulgence, its almost obligatory. Like life itself,…
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About 13 years ago I found myself transfixed by an image on a television news broadcast of a seven-year-old girl trapped on a bridge. With her family she was trying…
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Above the proscenium arch at the Embassy theatre, on either side of the screen, there are two flashing red lights. They've been there ever since the Return of the King…
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Jon Lusk on Fat Freddys Drop, just played at Glastonbury (from The Guardian): The band's laidback, island-time ambience is unmistakeably a product of its environment, but that seems only to…
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Mark Ravenhill on the curse of Robert McKee's "Story" (from The Guardian): Writer delivers script, goes in for meeting. "I'm missing the initiating incident on page 23," is a note…
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