Arts & Entertainment Journalism

Only this morning we were discussing the terrible temptation of writing a hatchet job review, how easy it is to demolish something in a review (compared to how surprisingly hard it is to write a professional review of something you admire enormously). But once in while, a demoliton job is deserved. Here’s the Guardian story [...]

BBC 1 Sunday 29 Jan  21’00 Director: Philip Martin. Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Lauren Lafitte, Clemence  Poésy. The BBC co-produced this adaptation of the Sebastian Faulks’ well-known novel.  Half way between an historic epic film and a romantic tear-jerker, in two chapters this tele-film told the story of Stephen Wraysford (Eddie Redmayne), a young English lieutenant [...]

TWITTER feeds flooded with overwhelmed fans as the new series of ‘The Only Way is Essex’ crashed onto our screens in all its trashy glory. As tweets shrilled with glee at being reunited with their Essex TV friends, I just manage to contain myself and see past the fakery. Take away the gleaming bleached teeth, [...]