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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Brokeback Mountain
I’ve got a lot of time for Ang Lee, although I’ll fully admit that I’ve still yet to see The Hulk, but I’m reasonably sure that I’m not missing an awful lot. Brokeback Mountain is a great return from someone who hasn’t made a proper film since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Based on a short…
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Munich
Let’s have another attempt at this, since my first review from a couple of weeks ago seems to have disappeared from the site. Munich, the latest Steven Spielberg film, is much more Schindler’s List than War of the Worlds. A few years ago, there was a fantastic documentary feature, One Day In September, that examined…
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Hidden
Hidden, or Caché, as it is in French, is a very strange film. I think the only previous Michael Haneke film I’ve seen is The Piano Teacher, which a very disturbing film. But this is probably more unusual. Overtly, it’s something of a thriller, with a couple (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) receiving strange video…
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Davos/Davros
Am I only the person who sometimes confuses Davos with Davros? Do they, in fact, stand for similar ideals?
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Google in China
I’m sure that all that needs to be said has already been said about Google’s decision to censor their own offering. I suppose I find it sad that even one of the biggest companies on the planet with unparralleled power in the supply of information, still feels that it needs to bend over and do…
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Who Do You Think You Are?
What a terrific programme Who Do You Think You Are? really is. This evening’s programme with Stephen Fry was qutie moving.
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Le Tour in London
News just in (sorry, I can’t bring myself to say “Breaking News”… damn): London has been confirmed as hosting the start of Le Tour next year. Ken Livingstone has been working hard for a while to get the start of the Tour, which hasn’t been in Britain since it came through Kent in 1994. There’d…
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The Myth of Mobile Television
This last week or so has seen the results of two separate trials of consumer reaction to getting mobile television services to watch on their phone. Arqiva (formerly NTL Broadcast) has just released the findings of its experiment in Oxford with Nokia which saw 375 O2 users receiving 16 digital television channels. This trial used…
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Whale Watching in London
Well Sky News broke the story when they went live to their Skycopter (i.e. a helicopter) sometime around midday today. A whale was in the River Thames in central London. After some initial confusion about the species, it was eventually confirmed to be a northern bottle nosed whale. So come lunchtime, I just had to…
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Government Defeated in Lords Over ID Card
Great news.
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Most Overused Phrases in Media #1
“Henman Crashes Out”. Does he ever get ‘knocked out’, ‘beaten’ or ‘defeated’? No. He ‘crashes out’. Indeed most tennis players ‘crash out’. A Google search of “tennis” and “crashes out” reveals around 46,000 mentions. Who says sports journalism is cliched?
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DAB “worse than old FM”
I know some people see this as old news, and it’s certainly true that it’s nothing new, but it’s still the case that DAB isn’t exactly everything that it could be. This report is from today’s Telegraph. I have less issue with the BBC than some of the local commercial multiplexes, which is why it’s…
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