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This year the World Science Fiction Convention (i.e. Worldcon) is taking place in Chicago. I am not going, but because I voted in site selec...

Previously I wrote about my favourite new tunes of 2021. Now let me talk you through some tunes from before 2021 that first crossed my orbi...

I went to London for a celebration of the centenary of the birth of screenwriter Nigel Kneale. Organised by Jon Dear , with the glamorous as...

When my aunt was in her early teens she reported having a strange dream. Her mother, my grandmother, was concerned and questioned her closel...

I saw these in the before time as part of an IFI season of films about couples who kill. Double Indemnity , directed by Billy Wilder, is a ...

These are two of those compilations released by Ace Records and put together by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne (in conjunction with Jason Wo...

Directed by Will Sharpe, this is a biopic of that late Victorian guy who painted pictures of cats, with Benedict Cumberbatch shining in the ...

This Wes Anderson film is set in an alternate universe in which for no obvious reason The New Yorker was published from a provincial French...

Everyone loves this; everyone except me, for I found it to be dull and fundamentally inconsequential. It follows an odd semi-relationship be...

Obviously this Covid world of people dying and travel and events being curtailed is pretty rubbish but there are some consolations, like bei...