Billie Piper will be starring in the adaptation of Pullman’s Shadow in the North, according to the BBC, over the Christmas season. She starred in Ruby in the Smoke last year.
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I wish I’d seen this before but BoingBoing has this link to a Times article and a Guardian piece on the exploits of les UX, an underground (quite literally) group of people who hold cultural events in the most unlikely of places. Since the discovery of a cinema, the French authorities have been ordered to [...]
The BBC are running a series of readings and events inspired by the work of William Blake this week in their afternoon reading slots and Neil Gaiman’s story runs on Thursday. It will be available on the above link for a week. Michael Morpurgo, Jack Shepard and Jenny Worton also have stories.
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A.S. Byatt has written this review of The Age of Enchantment exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (phone: 020-8693 5254) which takes place from 28th November to 17 February 2008. The illustrations are include works the 1890s to the 1930s, the Golden Age of book illustration, and show the variety of ways that the faerie [...]
Peter Haining, award winning anthologist and author, died on the 19th November, Locus have announced. He won the Karl Wagner award in 2001.
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Erica Wagner of the Times has hit the nail firmly on the head, in my view, in her article on the forthcoming Golden Compass film and the assertion that she has already seen the film in her own mind though her imagination. That’s something that Pullman has managed - along with Lewis, Tolkien and Le [...]
The Times has a link to the trailer for the JJ Abrams vehicle, Cloverfield, which appears to use digital video to portray the effect on ordinary people in a monster attack on New York (Fictionally, how can anybody get insureance in that city the amount of times it gets trashed). I hope that Matt Reeves [...]
Werner Herzog gave an interview to the Guardian today about his new film, Rescue Dawn. Despite the things I’ve read about him (largely being nuts), I’ve got time for his films.
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Archaeologists are claiming to have found the cave the Romulus and Remus were suckled in by the she-wolf (the Guardian has a video here). I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad really. I liked the myth and its large smattering of implausibility but how it drove the early Romans to get on with [...]
Tim Kring, the creator of Heroes, has apologised for the slow start to series 2 (rumours of which tend to fall into this is awful) and that it wil get back to doing what it’s good (certainly not romance) after the Writer’s Strike ends. He commented, “The message is that we’ve heard the complaints and [...]