Kids broaden their horizons

The fastest broadband in the world is helping pupils at a rural school interact with the wider community, while teachers benefit by being able to share scarce resources. Faisal al Yafai reports

Courses pick up the slack in e-commerce

'My old website was based on a £50 software package. In the initial stages of the web, everyone rushed out and had to make a website in five minutes. It was like tunnel vision," says Stephen Ridsdale, director of Leeds-based Dale Photographic Ltd.

Life, camera, action

Movies taught John Walsh how to cope with the agonies and ecstasies of growing up - especially how to get that first kiss. David Thomson laughs along to Are You Talking to Me?

The mogul with octopus arms

Simon Callow on Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's biography of Sam Spiegel, a supreme example of the producer-buccaneer

Taking civil liberties

Re-writing history for the screen had been the preserve of Hollywood, but then the British film industry decided to tackle the English civil war. Tristram Hunt was not impressed

Patriot games

Veronica Horwell gets a lesson in the art of movie blacklisting from Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner in Radical Hollywood

Beyond Hollywood

The work of the giants of Tinseltown can be good as well as bad, Chris Petit believes. But Ryan Gilbey's It Don't Worry Me is not the best filter for it

Past times

Chris Mole MP, whose private members bill on legal deposit libraries gets a second reading in the House of Commons tomorrow, says without proper archiving of electronic publications, the 21st century will be seen as a cultural Dark Age