In San Francisco last month I spent a lot of time at the central library. Outside the main entrance, there … More
Author: Alison
Blinded by the Light
Gurinder Chadha, UK, 2019 It’s odd watching your childhood on the big screen. This film is set in Luton in … More
The Kitchen
Andrea Berloff, USA, 2019 The set up looked so good. Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, 1978, three Irish mafia wives … More
Bad Influence/Strangers on a Train
Hanson 1990/Hitchcock 1951 So here I am in San Francisco and one of the things I always do when abroad … More
The Dead Don’t Die
Jim Jarmusch, USA, 2019 It’s the Jim J zombie film absolutely no-one was crying out for! I liked it. It’s … More
Matthew Herbert’s Brexit Big Band
This was a concert that marked the end of Sónar, Barcelona’s hippest music festival, and was also part of the GREC … More
Metaphor
Life is a journey. It will take me 13 hours to fly to California in a couple of weeks. This … More
Penny for your thoughts
Hmn, you look troubled. Or just pensive, perhaps. I can see there’s a lot you’re thinking about. If I give … More
Allez!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: road cycle racing is a lot like cinema. As the Tour…
Dovlatov
Aleksey German, Russia, 2018 I’ve been in St Petersburg a lot recently (in my head), re-reading Crime & Punishment and … More