The Voluptuous Manifesto

It’s the last day of February – and therefore the last day of LGBT+ History Month – so to conclude my thematic viewing on that basis, a repe...

This evening wasn’t the first time I’ve watched Basil Dearden’s 1961 noirish suspense film   Victim , but there was so much more that I ‘saw...

It’s early 2005 and Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, travels to the Vatican after the death of Pope John Paul II in order to...

Jonathon Glazer’s acclaimed film,   The Zone of Interest , is about the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, who lives right next door to t...

It was time for another spot of film catch-up this evening – and back to an effort at being thematic for LGBT+ History Month – with a first ...

Back in mid-autumn, as I was coming out of the initial dark phase of my partner of 34-plus years having died, I started rather frenetically ...

In  Mädchen in Uniform , t he apparently difficult Manuela von Meinhardis (‘you’re big for 14’ – ‘I’m 14 and a half’), whose mother died whe...