Got new issue of SFX which had features on the history of Frankenstein in film + the new series of The Walking Dead (I hope Channel 5 hurry up + get it soon as I haven't got Fox so I'm missing out ( Read more... )

Yesterday Times had a couple of good interviews w/Jack Whitehall and Cillian Murphy. CM is due to star in Peaky Blinders (drama about gangs in Post WW1 Birmingham) - it sounds good + apparently they're using a modern soundtrack including tracks by the White Stripes and Nick Cave. They also mentioned CM was up for the part of Batman and got down to ( Read more... )

Telegraph had reviews of the new book on Oliver Reed and Paul Morley's new book, The North plus there was a short interview w/literary agent Ed Victor talking about how he worked on her memoirs w/Ava Gardner and ended up having an affair with her ( Read more... )

Times at weekend had a couple of interesting articles on the pornification of society and a debate over 'angry' 70s feminism vs. modern feminism. They also had reviews of Ruby Wax's new book on mental health (using a lot of CBT/mindfulness techniques) and a new biography of Oliver Reed that was authorised by his family. They also had an article on ( Read more... )

I read an interview w/Ben Whishaw where he said he wouldn’t discuss his private life as he felt it detracted from the audience’s ability to believe him in whatever role ( Read more... )

Got latest issue of Uncut which had a big feature on David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust and reviews of The Devils/Sherlock S2 on DVD plus new book on history of NME. God, I used to love the music papers (NME/Melody Maker) back in the early 90s - I d3finitely preferred it when they did longer features on bands. And maybe I just liked the bands from back ( Read more... )

They're showing Ken Russell doc on BBC2 (followed by Women In Love) but I'll probably catch it on catchup TV ( Read more... )