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Sunshine on Leith trailer: all singing, all dancing, all Scottish

Mon, Sep 30, 2013
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I knew this is a musical, and I still wasn’t expecting soldiers to start singing in the middle of the street.

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what pop culture stuff generally regarded as cool is actually crap?

Mon, Sep 30, 2013
24 comments

Writer Charlie Higson and I agree that kung fu movies are a bit crap…

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London photo of the day: learning to catch an American football

Sun, Sep 29, 2013
5 comments

More from the NFL on Regent Street event yesterday…

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I’ll be in Amsterdam Dec 1 through Dec 6

Sun, Sep 29, 2013
18 comments

Would love to meet any readers who might be in the vicinity…

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London photo of the day: NFL on Regent Street

Sun, Sep 29, 2013
3 comments

Today the NFL shut down London’s famous Regent Street for an event to promote its upcoming International Series.

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it’s bliss to be up early for…?

Sat, Sep 28, 2013
15 comments

Seeing Stonehenge at sunrise — twice — has been one of the most memorable experiences of my life…

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London photo of the day: Vietnamese spring rolls

Fri, Sep 27, 2013
3 comments

Lunch today, from the Real Food Festival at Southbank…

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Dark Touch review: Carrie on and on

Fri, Sep 27, 2013
1 comment

Elegantly atmospheric indie horror drama plumbs typically unseen depths of children’s coping mechanisms in the face of terrible real-life experience.

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Doctor Who thing: last chance for tickets to the 50th-anniv celebration in London

Fri, Sep 27, 2013
1 comment

But you have to fill out a ballot, by phone or online — by Monday Sep 30 10am BST — for a chance to buy tickets.

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The Network trailer: bringing television back to Afghanistan

Fri, Sep 27, 2013
2 comments

I love documentaries like this one, that make you consider a new aspect of a messy, complicated situation that you hadn’t ever thought about before…

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