The new Doctor Who’s Oscar-winning short film: ‘Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life’
So, Peter Capaldi has finally arrived as the new Doctor Who, making a promising (though fleeting) appearance at the end of a rather indulgent (and…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 12/2013
Kilroy was here: Surgeon brands his initials onto a patient’s liver during transplant surgery
A surgeon has been suspended after allegedly branding his initials onto a transplant patient’s liver. Consultant Simon Bramhall is accused of burning “SB” onto a…
Salvador Dali’s Christmas cards
Salvador Dali designed a series of nineteen Christmas cards between 1958 and 1976. These greeting cards were specially produced for the Barcelona-based company Hoechst Ibérica,…
Doctor Who?: This is the composite face of all 13 Doctors
No, this isn’t the face of some F.B.I. most wanted, or distant inbred relation of royalty, or the latest anodyne pop star, no, this is…
The Bonzo Doo-Dah ‘Mad Man’: The selected adverts of Vivian Stanshall
In those later days when Bonzo Dog Band frontman Vivian Stanshall was short of a bark, a pen, a duck, or a round, he would…
Novelist Graham Greene played Russian roulette as a teenager
If the first volume of his autobiography A Sort of LIfe is to be believed, then the novelist Graham Greene did not have a very…
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in a 5-minute version of ‘Charade’
Stanley Donen’s Charade is one of those films I can watch repeatedly and never seem to quite tire of its celluloid magic. It has that…