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Since January, Doctor Who Adventures has featured a back-up comic strip, AAAGH , in which a small boy and a robot lady find odd jobs for Do...

Catching up on the books of 2010. Goldfinger deserves a post of it's own sometime - and I certainly made loads of notes. But blimey, it...

I wrote this trail for the Petrie Museum of Ancient Egyptology , which has just had a spangly new makeover. Cat and gothic trails are also a...

Another old Film Focus thing , this time an interview with director Dave McKean to go with my review of Mirrormask . Was thrilled to speak ...

More of my old reviews from Film Focus . This one got me mentioned on Neil Gaiman's blog - with a corresponding explosion of hits to t...

To the BFI Southbank last night to see Coraline in eye-popping 3D. Eye-popping then replacing with buttons… Coraline Jones moves to an old...

As well as jamming lasagne and booze down my head-hole, Psychonomy leant me comics on Saturday. The collected edition of DC: The New Fronti...

I’m a bit of a sucker for the tunnels of London. There’s the space-age aluminium and toughened glass all through the Jubilee line extension ...

Sir Arthur C Clarke, who died yesterday , is probably best remembered for getting his physics right. This is the bloke who, for a bit of a l...

Escape is a fixture in escapist fiction. Our heroes look sly and resourcedul when they can break out of cells, baddie bases and countries us...