The Road (15) **** Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy PearceDirected by John HillcoatRunning time 111 minutes The unthinkable happens to the World and a few survivors struggle to live in a barren and threatening…
It is showdown time in the fitness stakes here for Wolfgang. Yesterday I had to go for a fitness test with my new therapeutic personal trainer Ricardo (with one “C”). The worst bit wasn’t the investigation into my vital statistics…
We don’t know the full story yet of course but the horrifyingly large numbers of people killed in the Haiti earthquake goes beyond immediate imagining. People predict tens of thousands of deaths in this the poorest country in the Western…
I was thinking about the faces hidden behind various masks in Afghanistan. It is easier to lump people together if we hide their facial features of course so these Taleban men pose for their photo as armed militants their humanity…
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 (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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…