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Ramblings on politics, technology, culture and poultry.

Saturday, April 04, 2026

Review of "Transgressions" by Sarah Dunnant

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Not read any Sarah Dunant before, but on the strength of this I will. It starts off a bit dull, about a woman who has recently separated fro...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Review of Bhaji on The Beach

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We were after a feelgood film, but this wasn't it. I guess it just hasn't aged well - it's from 1993, and it features a group of...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Review of Tar

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Long, with a slow start, but after about half an hour it become absolutely gripping - even though it's about the world of high culture m...

Review of Brides

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A surprisingly light but clever and thoughtful film about two British Muslim girls who journey to Syria to join Daesh - obviously based on t...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Review of Sometimes, Always, Never

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Strange, sad film about a man (Bill Nighy) whose son has disappeared, and how he and his other son pass their time searching for him, physic...

Review of "The Time of Our Singing" by Richard Powers

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A wonderful, long (one of the reviewers on the cover describes it as "epic" and that felt right) book about music, culture, race, ...

Review of Wild Rose

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Lovely feelgood film that ended the Stroud Film Festival. I'd seen it before , but enjoyed it a lot more this time - maybe because I wat...

Review of The Half of It

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A nice, enjoyable American High School romcom, if that's not an oxymoron. It's a re-telling of Cyrano de Bergerac, only this time th...

Review of "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities" by Rebecca Solnit

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I used to write about technology for a living, and I ended up writing about first technology-enabled transport, and then “smart cities”. The...
Monday, March 09, 2026

Review of Lute Como Uma Menina

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Documentary about a wave of school occupations in Brazil in 2015 (the film was made in 2016), and screened by local radical youth group The ...

Review of Shoot The People

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Another documentary in the Stroud Film Festival, this time about photographer Misan Harriman, who captures pictures of people engaged in pro...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

Review of Santosh

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Really good Indian film about a police investigation, in which the main investigators are both women  -because the case, which is about the ...

Review of Blue Has No Borders

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Nice and rather beautiful documentary about the way different people in Folkestone have responded to the arrival of migrants crossing the ch...
Monday, March 02, 2026

Review of Sanatorium

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A really dismal and depressing documentary film about a crumbling sanatorium in Ukraine. Someone thought it was quirky and charming, but it...
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