29Jun

Glastonbury 2008: Jay-Z

posted by Beeker Northam

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Jay-Z going down in Glastonbury history last night. The thought of it’s still making my skin tingle.
Cut to 29.25 if you want pure Jigga (although Dizzee Rascal with Calvin Harris at 13.30 is worth a look too).

26Jun

Broken Flowers

posted by Steve Bowbrick

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Blimey. A Jim Jarmusch movie on iPlayer. I missed it when it went out so you’ve only got a couple of days to watch it. Still, it’s got to be better than Northern Irish tiger worriers. Jarmusch’s second proper movie, which was his big break, Down by Law, came out while I was (nominally) studying [...]

23May

Delta Forever

posted by Roo Reynolds

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I must confess that I plucked this at random out of the ‘sitcoms‘ section on iPlayer, not having seen or heard anything about it, so I wasn’t expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised by it though. It sort of crept up on me and by the end I was really impressed with the cast and [...]

16May

Ideal

posted by Steve Bowbrick

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Graham Duff’s Ideal is a kind of hermetically-sealed sitcom. It’s all about the four walls of drug dealer Moz’s nasty flat. It’s claustrophobic and quite dark. I mean literally dark. No natural light (not even the simulated kind) shall fall on these sticky carpets and collapsing armchairs. It reminds me of Eraserhead—which sounds like a [...]

20Apr

Doctor Who Confidential

posted by Steve Bowbrick

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I can’t remember exactly when we acquired a taste for this kind of ‘making of’ material. Was it when DVDs came along with all that extra room for stuff? Or was it something to do with the gaping maw of multichannel TV and the pressing need for hundreds of extra hours of programming? Or—bit more [...]



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