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
Tag Archives: review
Rye Smiling
There’s something comforting about taking in a film and realising you know every location intimately. Rye Lane is a comedy romance that is centred on Peckham, Brixton and Herne Hill. It’s a nicely put together piece that occasionally had me … 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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Translating Heroes #theatre
I saw a film in 1985 called Letter To Brezhnev. It was fairly popular but I doubt it travelled widely. It told of a romance between a Liverpudlian woman and Russian sailor and I might have imagined there would be … Continue reading
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
My Year-End Search For Wisdom in Verse…
Today I received notification of a rather splendid review of my recently published book of poetry by Ro Newton who lives ‘down under’. I hope you enjoy her rambles and kind words as I did.
Posted in miscellany, poems, poetry, review
Tagged poem, poetry, review, the sincerest form of poetry
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What Is The Point? #films #politics #thetrielofthechicagoseven
Sadly one of many Christmas traditions that Auntie Rona Virus has consigned to the bin is the post Christmas day trip to the cinema. So it’s Netflix or nothing. No, that’s not true. While I indulged my latent passion for … Continue reading
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Tagged film review, review, sorkin, spielberg, the trial of the chicago seven, Tintin
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Papal Bull? #twopopes #filmreview
Back on the sofa, and another film that slipped through the Le Pard net during the old days of cinema visits. Dog chose a different lap to dribble into while one of our aged cats gave my lap the once … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Hopkins, film, Jonathan Pryce, review, Two Popes
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What The Dickens #film #review #davidcopperfield
Confession no. 1 I like Armando Iannucci’s work, especially the Death of Stalin which shouldn’t be funny but was. The Thick of It grew on me too, once Malcolm Tucker’s gratuitous yet oddly twee swearing became just part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Armando iannucchi, David copperfield, film, review
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The Visit #theatrereview
I can’t remember the last play I saw with two intervals. Some Shakespeare thingy I expect. Not that I can justify two ice creams so we took a box of sliced mangoes that makes me wonder if I’ll ever nail … Continue reading
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