In San Francisco last month I spent a lot of time at the central library. Outside the main entrance, there…
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…
The Kitchen
Andrea Berloff, USA, 2019 The set up looked so good. Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, 1978, three Irish mafia wives…
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…
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…
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…
Metaphor
Life is a journey. It will take me 13 hours to fly to California in a couple of weeks. This…
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…
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…