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18/03/2010 Cinema review: Watch and learn

The full and rather clumsy title of Lee Daniels’s movie is Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Quite why Sapphire is name-checked, I...

18/03/2010 Sigmund Freud's grandson takes portraits to Paris

This will be the first time over 20 years that portrait artist Lucian Freud exhibits his masterpieces, which includes his signature nude painting...

11/03/2010 Seeing world through other eyes at Paris expo

Philippe Descola’s The Making of Images seeks to explain how our perceived reality is shaped by the culture we were raised.

11/03/2010 Cinema Review: Alice (remember Alice?)

Fresh from his pathetic attempt at predicting the Oscar winners, Picturenose's James Drew falls down a rabbit hole to find out how Messrs Depp...

04/03/2010 Cinema – Going, going, gong!

Picturenose's James Drew prepares for his annual humiliation as, once again, he pits his awards punditry against the Academy of Motion Picture...

25/02/2010 Cinema review: Shutter not quite up to speed

Picturenose’s James Drew finds a legendary director to be more than a little out of sorts with his latest effort.

21/02/2010 Five years of YouTube: very popular, but poorly researched

YouTube is marking its fifth anniversary. The main attraction of this video site is the opportunity for instant fame it presents to ordinary...

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