Journey to Italy: Hollywood goes Neapolitan
De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D maybe among the most famous examples of Italian neo-realism, but the films
What is a web editor?
In most forms of publishing it is a square assumption that the medium of the material should not require too
Programmes about programmes
Some time ago at 8pm on a Saturday evening, the BBC broadcast a tribute programme to Bill Cotton, the former
Twitter and road rage
Imagine your life reduced to 140 characters; trying to articulate the sum total of your being in a few pithy,
Britain and its wet dreams
Dreams matter. Freud said that they express the fulfilment of a wish. But outside any clinical or professional psychological analysis,
Gaslight: the light of the mind
Like many of the pies in which David O. Selznick had his fat little fingers, George Cukor’s 1944 Gaslight has
Richard Curtis: the Great British Myth Maker
A Richard Curtis film set in Middlesbrough is a cinematic oxymoron. Even Milton Keynes seems unlikely. Mainly because foppish glamour,
