Jezza's Blog

A collection so hard to review...just to say that each of the stories in this collection is a jewel, creepy but beautiful at the same time. ...

I've written elsewhere about how I feel like I ought to like William Morris, but somehow I end up not liking him. This book very much b...

Poignant book about the life of two couples living in the countryside near Bristol, with both the wives pregnant. One of the men is a farmer...

A beautiful, clever, touching film about love, death, loss, loneliness. Based on a book ( the 1987 novel  Strangers  by  Taichi Yamada ) , w...

I'm not really sure what the point of this book is. Molly Scott Cato said that she was writing a book about fascism, but it isn't th...

Silly but enjoyable romcom about a woman in her 40s who gets into a relationship with a boyband singer. No dramatic tension, every bit of co...

I enjoyed this enough, but it was entirely formulaic. MH just winds up his characters and lets them go. Judd is pompous and conniving, Lamb ...

2020 High School teen gay romcom. Light and fluffy - somehow the fact that all the teen romances are lesbian makes the film sweeter and more...

A very dated black and white fantasy film from 1944, adapted from a 1943 stage play, in which nine characters from then-contemporary England...

I think that this might be a picaresque novel...it's about a pompous, self-satisfied and lazy theatre director that gets his deserved co...

Easy to read, slightly repetitive book that aims to decode the Biblical narrative through the methods of text analysis...although the author...

Well crafted drama about an episode in a modern German secondary school, in which a young teacher gets caught up when someone (A colleague? ...