Jezza's Blog

I was expecting a sort of "Between the Wood and The Water" set in the Caucasus, but it turned out to be not so much of a posh-boy ...

Surprisingly thoughtful and interesting film, about the world of books and authors, but also about race and class in contemporary America. T...

Not completely sure about this one. I didn't enjoy it all that much. It was a bit dull some of the time, and I found myself grinding thr...

Beautiful slow poignant movie, which nevertheless manages to be quite funny. It's about a folk duo who were lovers but broke up and stop...

Watched again in the Middle Floor at Springhill, from a DVD, and realised that though I had warm and fuzzy feelings about this film, I'd...

Last weekend I attended some of the Festival of Commoning , held in Stroud. There were lots of interesting talks and discussions, but there ...

A sympathetic biopic of Martha Stewart, that makes her seem almost nice. The bad parts aren't ignored, but they are spun and glossed. So...

Not-very-good German romcom - a woman starts an agency to help people suffering from heartbreak after break-ups, a journalist writes a mean ...

Wow, what a book.  I bought this for my mum, in hardback, as a birthday present years ago - I looked at the subject matter, Jewish immigrant...

Not one of his best...perhaps because it's not entirely his. He died before he finished it, and his son completed it from extensive note...

A poignant romantic drama, made much more interesting by the unusual narrative structure - non-linear, so events are jumbled up in an out-of...

Nice, mainly gentle animated film, in which a young boy is storm-washed from the deck of his parents' sailing boat and (somewhat implaus...

As I write here quite often, I'm not a big fan of graphic novels. I find them hard to read, distracting and non-linear- maybe I have an ...