THE DESCENDANTS (CERT 15) *** Director: Alexander Payne Starring: George Clooney, Shallene Woodley, Amara Miller Running Time: 115 minutes Hawaiian land baron Matt King (George Clooney) is going through a bad time: his wife is on a life support machine…
I’ve never been much of a royal-watcher and I took no interest in that wedding when two nice but dim people embarked on their life of privilege but suddenly all that has changed. I wonder why. Maybe it’s because, at last, there is a…
J EDGAR (CERT 15) *** Director: Clint Eastwood Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts R.T. 137 minutes The infamous and all-powerful FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was feared for over 50 years because he had files on everyone from…
I know that I have always put Fred Goodwin’s title in brackets on these pages and I’m certainly not sorry to see him lose that silly addition to his name. I have no admiration for the man and only contempt…
Red-Shouldered Hawk vs. Rat by PicSniper I love this photograph by the brilliant Florida photographer known as PicSniper – but I’m a bit frightened of it too. It is the expression on the two creatures faces that makes it so…
They may not last very long, these tiny hit and run garden in London but they certainly brighten up a dull day in austerity Britain and they are far preferable to those holes in the road that show us how…
It is easy to let your mind wonder when you are doing your tax returns – well I find it like that whenever I am dealing with numbers. When I struggled in maths lessons at school I was often transported…
Every year I promise myself that I won’t wait until the final deadline before posting my tax returns on-line and every year, this one included, I do the same thing: panic. So this weekend, the deadline, instead of sunning myself…
SHAME (Cert. 18) **** Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale Director: Steve McQueen Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) enjoys sex – well, he’s addicted to sex and just can’t get enough of it. Luckily he lives on his own…