The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: review
Living, Maybe #filmreview
There are certain actors who seem to play themselves. Sean Connery was a top exponent of being Sean Connery even if he was the same as a suave British agent in Bond and a rough hewn US-Irish beat cop in … Continue reading
Portending #filmreview #bansheesofinisherin
It’s been a while since we’ve been to the flix, or flicks, but we were drawn as much by the two lead actors, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell. A deep black comedy, so the blurby stuff said. That often means … Continue reading
Singing Whats? When the Crawdad Chorus Has Its Moment In The Sun #Film review
I almost didn’t go. The reviews were pretty meah. I’d not read the book, even though it had had strong reviews. Maybe it was one of those transitions to the screen that don’t work. And then the timing. The start … Continue reading
If You Are Lonely… #filmreview
… build a robot. That, at least was Brian’s solution in the newly released British Comedy, Brian and Charles. Why do we nationalise comedy? Are we so different, or just arrogant that our comedy is somehow better, more comedic than, … Continue reading
Murd Woddling #theatre #review
A few years ago we saw a James Cordon vehicle at the National – One Man, Two Guv’nors – which was a modern take on a Commedia dell’arte masterpiece by Goldoni. I say masterpiece with a little hesitation as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jack Absolute Flies Again, review, Sheridan, The Rivals, theatre
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Truth, Lies And The Stiffest Of Top Lips #filmreview #operationmincemeat
I’m never entirely sure who our favourite heroes are, when it comes to being British. After all most people seem to think the suavest of English heroes in one J Bond should be played by an unashamedly nationalistic Scot in … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, review, San Francisco
Tagged film review, operation mincemeat
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The Past Is A Foreign Country #Belfast #filmreview
I was too young to understand the explosion of civil violence in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s but not so young that it didn’t soon register. But it didn’t seem relevant to my little life in rural … Continue reading
Courting Ridicule #theduke #film
I often admire those who dig out the implausible stories from the recent past – recent being a relative concept and in my head refers to the period when I was alive – and then create a film from them … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, review
Tagged film review, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, the Duke
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No Time To Die? Well, How About Tomorrow? #cheese #cliche #jamesbond #filmreview
Warning: there are some plot spoilers, but nothing really big, and certainly nothing that gives the plot away (as you’ll understand if you read on) I was in Derbyshire with the parents of my daughter in law – we wondered … Continue reading
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Tagged bond movie; no time to die; review, film review
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In Limboland #Filmreview #limbo
In the 80s we fell in love with Scotland via a film Local Hero. It helped the sound track was by Dire Straits, a favourite ensemble of the time. It was a sort of Travelogue with oil. This week we … Continue reading
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