One of this blog's favourite bloggers, Samantha Ellis, has just been to Fantastic Mr Fox and loved it.
Samantha wrote a journal for us about her time researching wolves and rewilding when writing her play The Last Wolf in Scotland.
Fantastic Mr Fox turns out to be a paean to the crunchy side of nature with Mr Fox giving an impassioned defence of wildness. But Samantha was also struck by the stop-motion filming, which made her realise how much she hated CGI:
The more you can see the joins, the more you're aware that these are handmade puppets being photographed, moved a tiny bit, then photographed again, the more real it seems. I think we believe more when we have to work a bit harder to suspend disbelief.
Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well
under way | Sara Hudston
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*Bridport, Dorset:* Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse,
there is a bounty of ciders to be sampled. Talk, though, is of this year’s
awful...
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