Thaw
The great thaw started over the weekend and I was hypnotised by these slowly melting icicles outside my bedroom window. We English have got fed up with the snow now because, well those of us living in the South anyway,…
Daybreakers – a film having fun with blood and gore
DAYBREAKERS (15) ** Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan and Sam Neill Written and Directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig Running Time: 98 minutes It is 2019 and vampires now rule the World but they are…
Goodbye to two of my favourite composers – Berlioz and Rossini
Now Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) – he was the man! Under-estimated, plotted against, disliked and ridiculed but he just kept going and ended up leaving us some of the very greatest music written in the Nineteenth Century. If only we all…
How great does Great Britain feel today?
Nothing is what it seems these days in what you can call either the United Kingdom or Great Britain depending on your mood. It is all in the adjectives which in their official use here are innocuous collective words. “United”…
It’s snowing again and this time it is mostly in the “soft “South
There was a burst of activity first thing this morning here in Sussex in Southern England, the home of warm winters and sunny summers. Yes, it was snowing again and this time, we in the soft underbelly of our great…
Starting all over after Christmas
I know it isn’t Twelfth Night (the last part of Christmas) until tomorrow but I am feeling like Christmas is history and I am enjoying those feelings that come with a bright and crisp early January morning. It is the…
Avatar – adventures in 3-D
AVATAR (12a) **(*) 3-D cinema’s fairly obvious answer to millions of 2-D films Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen LangWritten and directed by James CameronRunning Times 162 minutes Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic American marine replaces…
Miracles
So this very long year came to its end – a year which I didn’t know if I would see end when it began. I was ill then, very ill probably, only two months after my brain haemorrhage, but now…
My Favourite TV Shows of the Decade
I began the decade watching a lot more television that I have done as it draws to a close. Too often, or maybe not, I have just found myself preferring to do other things with my time but after some…
Sherlock Holmes – the new Guy Ritchie film
Sherlock Holmes (Cert 12a) *** Let’s hear it for a film that is all unpretentious fun Starring Robert Downey Jnr, Jude Law and Rachel McAdamsDirected by Guy Ritchie Holmes (Robert Downey Jnr) is upset that Dr. Watson (Jude Law) is…