The Voluptuous Manifesto
All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl
Sunday, 10 November 2019
All badged up
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The overarching message from today’s exercise in re-badging my leather jacket, now returned from the cleaners, seems to have been that yo...
Saturday, 19 October 2019
For the record – all hail vinyl
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Today was going to involve a trip to the cinema to see Singin’ in the Rain on a big screen, but a chill I picked up when my lower legs a...
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
The Name of the Rose – TV for grown-ups
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Perfectly timed for the darkening evenings and the spooky joys of Halloween, a new eight-part German-Italian adaptation of Umberto Eco’s ...
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Joker is stunning – and that's no joke
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You could be forgiven for imagining that nobody had ever, ever before made a film about a loner who turns violent, given some of the hype...
Thursday, 3 October 2019
Zellweger shows us the isolation – and guts – of Judy
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It’s not news that Judy Garland led a troubled life – or that her problems began as a child – but one of the things that Rupert Gould’s n...
Tuesday, 1 October 2019
The wonderful ... WONDERFUL Wizard of Oz
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We didn’t go to the cinema a lot when I was child, but memory suggests that the most regular period for family film-going was from around...
Saturday, 21 September 2019
Ad Astra: cinema that reaches for the stars
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In the near future, the Solar System is being hit by power surges from an unknown source, causing increasing damage and loss of life on E...
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