Back when I was on Twitter actively, I remember being on a train to London for an examiners’ meeting (those days are thankfully over forever now). I remarked on Twitter how boring the Lincolnshire countryside is – flat, continuous farmland. A reply came from my online friend Richard McCann (whom I have met once in [...]
It turns out that there are moves afoot to change the dialogue in the Famous Five books in order to make them more accessible to contemporary children. Some independent research has suggested that they find words like luncheon and squared (in the sense of sorted out or reconciled) difficult to get past. The initiative has [...]
Time to catch up with commenting on the films I’ve seen over the last few months. Harry Brown is an easy watch. Contrary to popular wisdom, I’ve always struggled to see Michael Caine as an actor with any credible range at all – just a lucky guy who’s been cast in a few iconic roles [...]
To step into Jeremy Clarkson mode for a nano-second, who would not want to sit out on the front porch, drinking beer and admiring a highly polished classic muscle car, winking at you in mint condition from the driveway – a metaphor for your lifelong angst-ridden rendering of the American dream? This nano-second is one [...]
Since the web began to offer a global audience to personal thoughts, back in the 90s, I’ve considered a campaign of reviewing every film I see, even if only briefly, as time allows. So, I thought the viewing of my first blu-ray might be a good point to mark the transition from sporadic to consistent. [...]