Jezza's Blog

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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