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Friday, January 30, 2026

Review of "The System of The World" by Neal Stephenson

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The third in the series, and now that I've finished it I'm a bit bereft. Just as fabulous as the other two volumes. I was sure that ...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Review of The Master

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For some reason everyone seems to think that this is a magnificent film, but I'm not sure why. It's atmospheric, and the acting is g...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Review of Marty Supreme

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Odd, long but captivating sports film. It's early 1950s New York, and young Marty Mauser works in his uncle's shoe shop while develo...

Review of Prime Minister

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Sympathetic and engaging portrait of Jacinda Ahearn, Prime Minister of New Zealand - who comes across as really nice and normal, even though...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Review of "The Confusion" by Neal Stephenson

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I read this twenty years ago, loved it then and loved it on the re-reading. It's not possible to do a plot summary, even if I didn't...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Review of Hamnet

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Loved the book and had a cry at the end. Loved the film and had a cry at the end, though in a different place to where I'd cried in the ...

Review of Blue Moon

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Really sad biopic about Lorenz Hart, once the lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers before he was supplanted by Oscar Hammerstein. Very c...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Review of Song Sung Blue

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Kind, thoughtful biopic of two artists who make a career out of their Neil Diamond tribute act, and their struggles as working-class America...

Review of Secret Mall Apartment

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A documentary with lots of found-looking (well, it's video footage from a very old camera that they used in the early 2000s) footage abo...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

Review of "The Lost Cause" by Cory Doctorow

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I like Cory Doctorow a lot, though not so much for his fiction. This isn't brilliantly written, but the scenario of how the US responds ...

Review of The Life of Chuck

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Clever interesting film that's quite hard to characterise. The websites describe it as Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but it's not really that. It...
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