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I wrote an extended version of my interview with Jane Birkin in which she talked about Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive legacy of Je T'Aime. https://open.substack.com/pub/alastairmckay/p/histoire-de-jane-birkin-an-english?r=695tp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Sex and violence, stupidity and artificial intelligence: the beautiful numbness of Westworld

Rillington Place: Tim Roth plays Reg Christie as a cross between Alan Bennett and Mr Benn

Planet Earth Is Blue, And There's Something We Can Do: Root For The Baby Iguana As It Is Chased By A Racing Snake

The Crown Is A Slightly Subversive Tapestry About The Royal Family With A CGI Elephant And Enough Coughing To Startle The Fast Show's Bob Fleming

Despite The Venom Of His Inner Numskulls, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror Is Tales Of The Unexpected With iPhones

In Allan Cubitt's The Fall, Gillian Anderson's Stella Is A Sexy Ventriloquist With Laryngitis And The Killer Is An Oddly Charming Hunk With A Scar On His Six-Pack

Sharon Horgan's Divorce: Sex Goes Upstate, or Husbands and Wives Sideways

The new Westworld is an entertainment about entertainment, a shoot-’em-up about shoot-’em-ups, an artificial intelligence about Artificial Intelligence

The Academy Awards Are Like Buses, Leonardo DiCaprio Is An Apprentice Brian Blessed; Quentin Tarantino, What Happened?

Kurt Cobain, the myth explored and expanded

In Hugo Blick's The Honourable Woman, Which Woman Was The Most Honourable?

Matthew McConaughey's Long, Cool Ride: From Surfer Dude to Suffer, Dude

Take It To The Bridge: Saga Noren and Martin Rohde Turn TV Detective Fiction Inside Out

The Butler: A Zelig-like Tale of Struggle in Which the Metaphor Wears a Tuxedo.

Remember How The Darkness Doubled? Chris Forsyth's Solar Motel Is Like A Brilliant Sequel To Marquee Moon