Articles by Rob Buckley

About Rob Buckley
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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Theatre reviews

Review: Future Me

7 April 2009 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Future Me

Where: Only Connect Theatre, 32 Cubitt Street, London WC1X 0LR
When: 7.30pm Monday-Saturday, matinees 16 and 25 April 3pm, Sunday 26 April 5pm, no performances 15 & 20 April. Runs from 31 March–26 April 2009
How long: Two hours 20 minutes, including 20 minute interval
How much: £15 (£10 concessions)
Tickets from: Pleasance Theatre or 020 7609 1800    

Dirty paedos, huh? They’re all sicko monsters and should be killed for the sake of the children.

That, at least, is supposed to be what all Right Thinking People know to be true. But is it?

Future Me explores whether paedophiles are in fact just like you and me, just with different desires.

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Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Painting a Man

7 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Ali Larter with paintbrush

Ali Larter

This week, Ali Larter is painting a man. No, literally painting a man.

Huh.

Why’s she doing that again?

Ah, to raise money for charity. That almost makes sense. But which charity?

Is she doing it prevent violence against women, again? Not this time. Normally she recites from The Vagina Monologues for that.

Is she doing it to strengthen community resources for women, or help children with serious medical conditions? Not this time, although she has been known to draw things to help kids with epilepsy.

Ali's drawing of her Heroes character

No, she was doing it to help foster a community spirit and responsibility in children as part of a mural painting exercise. Which apparently requires painting on people. Oh wait, that’s her fiancé. Fair enough.

Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“

Tuesday’s delightful box news

7 April 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Someone else returning for the finale [great big spoilery spoiler]

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