Jezza's Blog

I really like Paul Mason. He writes very well, about stuff that is important. This book is in many ways a survey of the present moment - o...

Finally bought myself a PaySafeCard voucher, at this place on Paddington Street, in Marylebone. The process was indeed perfectly anonymous...

I was quite excited to discover PaySafeCard - an online payment provider that allows you to spend cash online, as anonymously as cash its...

Watched on DVD. As they say, that's two hours of my life I'm never getting back. Grim, loosely plotted, uninteresting characters, ...

If you are English, you've probably had the experience of being a conversation with a European – say a French or German person – and b...

Time travel paradox films. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all, or so it feels anyway. The fact that Bruce Willis is in it ...

I've seen this once before, but didn't remember much apart from an episode in which a faux-Zionist flag is raised by Hasidim outsi...

Watched this on my mobile, so some issues with the quality of the image, and sometimes with the sound. A kid's film really, but I am a...

Sometimes you go to a talk or even that just blows your mind – you're overwhelmed with the breadth of the speaker's ideas, or th...

For a romcom this was actually quite funny. Some really nicely observed bits of awkwardness. My favourite was the team dinner for the peop...

A bit boring really. Must remember not to see films about film-makers. Hitchcock not particularly nice or interesting, even though he made...

This book describes how the Jewish (and subsequently Christian) religions emerged from a rather different set of beliefs and practices. ...

Execrable. What was Diane Keaton doing in this? Surely she can't need the money that much. Not acting, that's for sure. Lousy plot...

Enjoyable film, not very nuanced history. Mainly looked great, in a grey and sepia sort of way. Mrs Lincoln (BTW Sally Field does look a lot...

Just watched this (recorded from Channel 4). Thought it was a really interesting film, though not entirely sure what it was about. Starte...

Just got home from seeing this. Bemused by the fact that everyone in the cinema seemed to think it was wonderful - a ripple of applause at t...

I really enjoyed reading this, and learned a lot about a struggle that I thought I already knew about. There is a lot of detail, and some...

I made some kvass. I'd had it from a stall in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and it had stuck in my mind as a nice not-too-sweet ...

Putting my review here, in case the tax-dodgers at Amazon get grumpy and refuse to publish it. "Lots of interesting information about...

Went to see Evrything yesterday - an interesting Internet of Things start-up with a heritage in the really rather clever Web of Things grou...