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Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story: Documentary Review
Triple BAFTA TV nominee (one win) and RTS winning documentary, Billy And Molly: An Otter Love Story, hit the Channel 4 screens in the UK last week and is an absolute pearler of a film by National Geographic. Not only is it stunningly photographed, but it tells a story as engaging as a fairy tale. And in truth it’s a real life fairy tale as it explores the unlikely but true story of retired,…
The Chair. The short film by Curry Barker that was the genesis of Obsession.
It’s short but sweet.
Infinity Foods Cafe, Brighton. On the nature of grief.
I am listening to a profound book, an extended interview between Sean O’Hagan and Nick Cave, called Faith, Hope and Carnage. It was recorded in the wake of the recording of Ghosteen which, in turn, was recorded in the wake of Nick Cave’s son, Arthur’s death. It’s a book about religious belief, faith and grief. And it’s mesmerising. The story that brought me close to tears whilst out walking…
Obsession: Movie Review
Horror is reaching new levels of creativity this year. Jordan Peele has started the momentum but first Backrooms and now this are proving that the genre will never run out of new ways to scare you. Where Backrooms was surreal and utterly discombobulating this is more rooted in tradition but the storytelling does not need to resort to dozens of jump scares and tedious slasher finales that long…
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My pick of the 4,000 shows you COULD see in Edinburgh this Fringe and Festival.
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell: Book review
Well, two posts in a row reviewing Maggie O’Farrell’s work. I am, as you may know, a big fan and I’ve heard people speak in hushed tones about this, her autobiography, maybe more of a memoir really. To say it’s an unusual take on a memoir is an understatement. It’s an anthology of 17 short stories about brushes with death across her life. This is one lucky cat (or unlucky depending on how you…
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell: Book Review
As we anticipate the release of O’Farrell’s Booker contender, Land, I got round to reading an early novel in her career (this is my sixth). Possibly her breakthrough into greatness. I wasn’t a fan of her debut, After You’d Gone, but her later work just gets better and better, culminating in the wonder that is Hamnet and then The Marriage Portrait. Hopefully Land will will be as good as the…
Backrooms: Movie Review
I was surprised that Sentimental Value’s wonderful star, Renate Reinsve, chose a horror for her Hollywood debut. But this is no ordinary horror, and it’s an A24 production, so her stellar arthouse reputation remains intact. She plays a therapist whose patient, Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), is experiencing very strange happenings in the failing furniture store that he owns. Turns out…
Recent Listening (Audiobook): Strong Female Character by Fern Brady.
Sometimes an audiobook trumps the written word. Barack Obama’s A Promised Land may be a case in point, because he voiced it. Fern Brady’s youngish memoir is another, because her astonishing voice makes this so much more relatable than it maybe is in print, although it will be wonderful in this medium too. I confess to be all-in with Fern. Her no-prisoner open-book comedy has drawn me in and the…
Recent Reading: Slough House by Mick Herron
Mick Herron is such a frustrating writer. His use of language is nuanced, often hilarious, clever, topical but sometimes somewhat obfuscating. He knows how to craft a world class insult. But, and it’s a big but, he’s not a novelist to read late at night, because his tightly woven plots with myriad characters and labyrinthine plots need careful attention to detail. In truth, I think his Slough…
It's my Beatles Birthday.
When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now (Lost hair. Check) (Many Years from now – nope today)Will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? (Not sent valentines for years. Birthday greetings. Check. Bottle of wine. Check.)If I’d been out ’til quarter to three, would you lock the door?(Impossible to be out that late now, but the door would be locked,…
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Project Hail Mary: Movie Review
Ryan Gosling has made some great movies, this being one of the best. It sits alongside LaLa Land and Drive as his best work to date and he shares the screen, for most of the movie, with an animated rock, so that takes acting chops to deliver a 150 minute story that touches many emotions, but particularly humour. Screenwriters Drew Goddard and Andy Weir (who previously brought us The Martian and…
Recent Reading: Animal by Lisa Taddeo
I was excited to read this as it came pretty highly regarded, but I regret to say I bailed after 50 pages. I just coul;d not get into the writing style that was often wilfully obscure and to be frank after a bit I coudn’t be arsed. But, go on, read it. Tell me I’m mistaken.
Recent Reading: Butter by Asako Yuzuki.
This Japanese blockbuster, translated beautifully by Polly Barton, is very good indeed, although it is perhaps a touch on the long side. Concerning a real life Japanese mass murder trial of an overweight woman who used food to lure her male prey to their deaths, it takes the form of a novel. Journalist Rika has no appetite for food until she takes on the challenge of teasing an interview out of…
Recent reading: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
This is my 21st Ian McEwan. His first 13 were universally brilliant (up till, and including, On Chesil Beach). Since then he has been decidedly hit and miss. Solar, Sweet Tooth, and now this are dogshit. This was an absolute trial from start to finish. It’s set both in the future, 2039 I think, and in the past, around 2010-14. And it’s a book about writing. Poetry specifically. And…
3,000 not out. A night at the Oscars.
This is it. My 3,000th post here. I’ve been oversharing here since October 2006, clocking up 1,544,012 views and 185,000 visitors. I know some of it, like this, is just stream of consciousness, but I’d like to think a few people have got little bits of inspiration along the way. My 3,000th post is a post of joy because my beloved Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) finally rid himself of his Oscar…
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EPiC: Elvis Live in Concert: Movie Review
I’ll start by saying I’m not especially an Elvis Presley fan. And that I think Baz Luhrmann has a slightly patchy filmography. But I did enjoy his Elvis movie in 2022. This, however, is not a movie, it’s a full blown documentary, akin, in some ways, to Peter Jackson’s sublime “They Shall Not Grow Old” (his WWI recolourised documentary) and The Beatles “Get Back” TV series. It opens with a…
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