Jezza's Blog

Slow, gloomy and depressing (though not entirely in a bad way) Japanese film about a profoundly deaf young woman training to be a boxer in a...

This was a really good, quite moving though sometimes funny about the friendship between two girls (who in the course of the film become you...

Enjoyable almost-spoof period-drama detective thriller, with a hapless drunk police inspector and his newly enlisted woman PC investigating ...

  Pretty awful cliched romcom, with the woman lead eventually ending up with the insipid male lead.

Weird surf-centred film about a young man/boy on the Isle of Lewis, whose dad has gone missing - he's a fisherman, he's probably dro...

Watched this in honour of Dolly Parton, who has just died and was a real good one. But the film is just awful. The best bit is the title son...

The first film that we watched under our BFI subscription. Set in 1991 (so no-one has internet or mobile phones) in a depressed Cornish seas...

Re-read this because I re-watched One Battle After Another , because that film is supposed to be inspired by this book. Well, I can see how,...

I've listened to William Dalrymple on the "Empire" podcast, and I think of him as a decent, progressive, liberal and intellige...

A well-plotted, well acted and beautifully shot Danish history movie, about the woman who managed to unify the warring kingdoms of Denmark, ...

Not really my sort of book - coming of age novel about a young mixed race women living in Willesden with a politically engaged mother and a ...