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Comment: MP Mark Lancaster discusses the UK’s relationship with Europe

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:35:18 GMT

It has been nearly 40 years since the British people last had their say on our relationship with Europe. Since then more and more powers have been devolved from our parliament to the European Union, so much so that now over 60 per cent of our laws are made in Brussels.

Alan Dee: Picking away at the scab of my sticker sensibility

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:26:43 GMT

Last week, regular readers – and presumably the Pentagon – will be aware, I went on at some length about the irritation I was being forced to endure by a cash dispenser which only gave me a split second to grab my receipt before retracting it into the bowls of the machine in a bid to avoid littering.

Alan Dee’s movie preview: World War Z, Snitch, A Haunted House

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:40:09 GMT

The first thing to get sorted about Brad Pitt’s new summer blockbuster is whether you’ll be able to order tickets through that infuriating automated service so many multiplexes mistakenly swear by.

Matt Adcock’s film review: Man Of Steel

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:31:29 GMT

What if a film dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?

Comment: The doctor will see you now

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:21:04 GMT

They really are little monkeys. Having introduced the term ‘redacting’ into the popular vocabulary, been caught snouting in the trough of public money, and telling blatant porkies on national TV, you’d have thought common sense would have been instilled into our political specimens.

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Hitchcock

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:02:57 GMT

HITCHCOCK (12: 20th Century Fox), a fact-based account of the making of the famous film director’s Psycho, is a disappointingly inconsequential affair.

Comment: Feeling supersonic about radio communications

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:11:12 GMT

Supersonic heterodyne. Now that’s something not often heard in daily conversation.

Matt Adcock’s film review: After Earth

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:07:07 GMT

“Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.”

Alan Dee: Grinding my teeth over retractable receipts

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:49:33 GMT

It’s the little things that can be relied on to reach out, grab hold of the sensitive parts of my individual goat and squeeze hard, I always find.

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Lincoln, Die Hard 5

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:37:36 GMT

Playing like The West Wing in stove-pipe hats, Steven Spielberg’s biopic LINCOLN (12: Twentieth Century Fox) may be a little stolid for some.

Alan Dee’s movie preview: Man Of Steel, Admission

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:50:14 GMT

Let’s be honest, when the version of Superman which most of us have hot-wired into our cinematic memory banks first hit the screen, we didn’t believe a man could fly despite what the tagline claimed.

Comment: The rectors of Simpson Church

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:23:01 GMT

In 1738 Walden Hanmer inherited the Simpson estate, and his would be the wish that one of his sons should enter the ecclesiastical profession.

Alan Dee: We’re walking into this with our eyes closed...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:11:21 GMT

So, here’s the proof, if any were needed: mobile phones are making us dimmer by the day, and it won’t be long before they take over the world.

Matt Adcock’s film review: The Purge

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:52:25 GMT

“Things like this don’t happen in neighbourhoods like ours…”

Alan Dee’s movie preview: After Earth, The Last Exorcism: Beginning Of The End

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:52:16 GMT

Smith & Son is the story we’re being sold for this week’s big new release – glossy special effects thriller After Earth features both Will and his boy Jaden, both of whom are perfectly bankable names bearing in minds their past successes.

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Flight, Wreck-It Ralph

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:18:16 GMT

A typical vanity-free turn by Denzel Washington elevates FLIGHT (15: Paramount) from predictable melodrama to something a bit classier.

Matt Adcock’s film review: Fast & Furious 6

Mon, 27 May 2013 07:00:20 GMT

“Ride or die, remember?”

Alan Dee’s movie preview: The Big Wedding, The Purge

Mon, 27 May 2013 07:00:16 GMT

Once upon a time the name Robert de Niro above the title meant one thing – passionate, powerhouse performances rooted in blue-collar sensibilities, muscular masterpieces of method acting.

Have a nice day off on Monday? Then you’re a passenger, pal...

Sun, 26 May 2013 17:01:32 GMT

Something’s not right, and it’s up to us all to put our heads together to sort it out and come up with something better. Ready for a bit of a brainstorm?

Comment: Of poetry and shows

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:12:56 GMT

My thoughts seem as but fleeting clouds.